Este trigo es nuestro.... Y sobre sus mejillas aradas por una larga miseria, corrieron dos lágrimas que cayeron junto con el grano en la primera bolsa de su cosecha....
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Hacia un lado del espacio libre que servía de salón, colocáronse una docena de muchachas guapísimas; eran las parejas.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Others in the trade who served the food administration during the period of the World War were George E. Lichty, president of the Black Hawk Coffee & Spice Co., Waterloo, Iowa; and Theodore F. Whitmarsh, vice-president and treasurer of Francis H. Leggett & Co., New York.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Les grands et les petits ont mêmes accidents, et mêmes fâcheries et mêmes passions, mais l'un est au haut de la roue et l'autre près du centre, et ainsi moins agité par les mêmes mouvements —Great and little are subject to the same mischances, worries, and passions, but one is on the rim of the wheel and the other near the centre, and so is less agitated by the same movements.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Goggle eyes; large prominent eyes.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

Each cloth extra, gilt edges— Large post 8vo, price 10s.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

médiocre , qui est entre le grand et le petit, le bon et le mauvais.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

Il recommence tous les jours, ne sortant jamais.—Voilà,’ me dit mon ami, ‘comment Oersted, le plus grand physicien de l’Allemagne, en est aussi le plus grand médecin; voilà comment Kant le métaphysicien était un des plus savants astronomes de l’Europe, et comment Goethe, qui en est actuellement le premier littérateur, dans presque tous les genres, et le plus fécond, est excellent botaniste, minéralogiste, physicien.’”
— from The Intellectual Life by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

2. 2; Ayala, De jure et officiis bellicis et disciplina militari , i. 8. 1 sq. ; Ferraris, quoted by Adds, Catholic Dictionary , p. 945; Nys, Le droit de la guerre et les précurseurs de Grotius , p. 128 sq. ), on the authority of St. Augustine, the great advocate of general truthfulness ( Quæstiones in Jesum Nave , 10, ad Jos. viii.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

ce se nest par le moien des cincq wyttes aparteyning to the sensytyve, for before that ye do understande any sens apartenant a la sensitiue, car deuant que uous entendez aulcune thyng, it behoved fyrst that it be to you shewed by the syght, by chose, il faut premiérement quil uous soit monstré par la ueue, par meane of colours, or by the hering by the meane of sound or voise, or by moien de coulleur, ou par louye moiennant son ou uoix, ou par smelyng, goustyng and tastyng, the whiche thyng so perceved by the fyve flairér, goustér et tastér, laquelle chose ainsy aperceue par les cincq Page 1056 wyttes, is sende to the comon witt which lieth in the formest parte of the sens, est enuoiée au commun sens qui gist en la partie anteriore du braine, the whiche goeth incontinently to the memory in the whiche he cerueau, lequel sen ua incontinent a la remembrance en laquelle il fynde what thynge it is after that one have him somtyme sayd and thought, treuue quelle chose cest selon quon luy a autfrefois dit et appris, wherfore it appere clerly that these thre myghtes beyng in man pourquoy il appert clérement que ces trois puissances estant en lhome and named onely by the name of soule resonable, in takynge denomination et nommée sullement par le nom de ame raisonable, en prenant denomination of the most noble, that is to understande of her which doth discesse, de la plus noble, qui est a entendre de celle qui discerne, ben hankyng the one of the others, and we juge clerely that the sont dependantes les unes des aultres, et dijudicons clérement que la sayd intellectyve or resonable is without comparation more excellent than dicte intellectiue ou racionelle est sans comparation plus excellente que the others, wherfore we juge her a thought or understandynge incarnate, les aultres, pourquoy nous la jugeons une pensée ou intelligence incarnée, the whiche is perpetuell and immortall, by cause that she is created to laquelle
— from An Introductorie for to Lerne to Read, To Pronounce, and to Speke French Trewly by Giles Du Wés

State Assemblies squabbled with their Governors, each little province was passively indifferent to or actively jealous of its neighbour, all alike were with good reason suspicious of the mother country; while on the other side the fighting strength of Canada, centralized under a despotic Government, one in aim and sympathy, was menacing and dangerous out of all proportion to the resources of the country or the numbers of its people.
— from A Historical Geography of the British Colonies, Vol. V Canada—Part I, Historical by Lucas, Charles Prestwood, Sir

The great English landscape painters (neglected now, like everything that is English) have this salient distinction, that the weather is not the atmosphere of their pictures: it is the subject of their pictures.
— from A Chesterton Calendar Compiled from the writings of 'G.K.C.' both in verse and in prose. With a section apart for the moveable feasts. by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

At the foot of the lake you stand in a trembling aspen grove, every leaf painted like a butterfly, and away to right and left round the shores sweeps a curving ribbon of meadow, red and brown dotted with pale yellow, shading off here and there into hazy purple.
— from The Mountains of California by John Muir

Il les a répetées, sans les modifier en rien, au milieu des discussions les plus graves et les plus étendues.
— from Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 2 by George Grote

Franqueville's "Le Gouvernement et le Parlement britaniques," vol.
— from The Mother of Parliaments by Harry Graham

Those jurists, on the other hand, who are in favour of codification argue that the customary Law of Nations to a great extent lacks precision and certainty, that writers on International Law differ in many points regarding its rules, and that, consequently, there is no broad and certain basis for the practice of the States to stand upon.
— from International Law. A Treatise. Volume 1 (of 2) Peace. Second Edition by L. (Lassa) Oppenheim

Nequaquam suo genere Graecis et Latinis poetis cedunt nostri Bardi, quamvis ad eorum normam carmina non texerunt.
— from Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards by Evan Evans