In this the following personages acted the chief part: Alonso Hernandez Puertocarrero, Pedro de Alvarado, with his four brothers Jorge, Gonzalo, Gomez, and Juan; further, Christobal de Oli, Alonso de Avila, Juan de Escalante, Francisco de Lugo, myself, and many other cavaliers and officers.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

He prefers public duties to private, and is somewhat impatient of the importunity of relations.
— from The Republic by Plato

Two attendants on the altar of the Virgin, two soar old maids, were decorating the altar for the month of Mary, under the direction of the priest, who stood in the middle of the chancel with his portly paunch, directing the two women who, mounted on chairs, were placing flowers around the tabernacle.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

The defence of the entrance to the Mississippi, however, presents peculiar difficulties; while the only two rival ports, Key West and Pensacola, have too little depth of water, and are much less advantageously placed with reference to the resources of the country.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Chief pontiff, blest high priest, pure doctrine he set forth to his disciples.”
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

As the younger ones slipped up to him in his retreat, he kept taking things out of his pockets; penny dolls, a wooden clown, a balloon pig that was inflated by a whistle.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

In the midst of his preoccupation Padre Damaso stroked the maiden’s cheek lightly.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

Dutzend cost per dozen Preis je hundert Stück cost per hundred Preis je tausend Stück cost per thousand Preis nach Börsenschluss price after hours Preisabnahme price decline Preisabsprache price agreement Preisabstützung pegging Preisänderung price alteration Preisänderung price change Preisänderungen vorbehalten subject to alteration of prices Preisangabe indication of price
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

In spite of the melancholy which oppressed me, I could not help smiling at the playful imagination of Agnes: She had perfectly preserved Dame Cunegonda's resemblance, but had so much exaggerated every fault, and rendered every feature so irresistibly laughable, that I could easily conceive the Duenna's anger.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

His adversary continued his placid progress down the room until he reached the tea table, where immediately he could be heard inquiring whether the diminutive "arrangements in green and white" were intended for lettuce sandwiches.
— from White Ashes by Alden Charles Noble

m highest point: Pico de Sao Tome 2,024 m Natural resources: fish, hydropower Land use: arable land: 2% permanent crops: 36% permanent pastures: 1% forests and woodland: 0% other: 61% (1993 est.)
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Would indeed that his poisoned pages did lurk in the library, and were not read openly in the streets.
— from Peter Abélard by Joseph McCabe

And howe blindlie and outragiouslie the frenche king, and his pestilent prelates do, fight against the veritie of God, the flaming fiers, which lick vp the innocent blood of Christes membres, do witnesse, and by his cruel edictes is notified and proclaimed
— from The First Blast of the Trumpet against the monstrous regiment of Women by John Knox

No, Pietje, you are”—she felt it her positive, painful duty to speak plainly—“a very wicked, guilty, evil-hearted girl.”
— from My Lady Nobody: A Novel by Maarten Maartens

Hearne, perhaps, put down his friend Motannabbi's Fort -philosophy for the opinion of his tribe; and from his high appreciation of the moral character of this murderous gymnosophist, it might, I fear, be inferred, that Hearne himself was not the very person one would, of all others, have chosen for the purpose of instituting the inquiry.
— from Aids to Reflection; and, The Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The deficient crop of 1848 could not have put prices down—we presume that even Mr Gladstone will not maintain that —and yet, for the week ending April 7, 1849 we find the averages of England as follows:— AVERAGE PRICES OF GRAIN FOR WEEK ENDING APRIL 7, 1849.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 67, No. 411, January 1850 by Various

Two bedrooms are panelled from floor to ceiling and have fine overmantels, one of which has painted panels depicting "Life" and "Death."
— from Nooks and Corners of Old England by Allan Fea

His previous popularity did not penetrate far within the circle of scholars and thinkers, and never knocked at the charmed threshold of the Weimar set, whose taste was controlled by Goethe and Schiller.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various