Pour internet : une concentration des sites commerciaux mais une explosion des sites persos qui seront regroupés par communautés d'intérêt.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

The cavalry, eight companies of the Fourth Illinois, under Colonel Dickey, were posted in a large open field to the left and rear of Shiloh meeting-house, which I regarded as the centre of my position.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Aparte de todo esto, se les impone una contribución de 5% por milla sobre la propiedad.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Defendíanse los hombres como podían, con las manos, con los sombreros, con lo que les caía al alcance, pero generalmente acababan por quedar vencidos, porque es irresistible una carga de jugadoras de ésas que se calientan en la refriega
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

How profoundly ignorant of religious history and mental science must those persons therefore be who attach any importance to those diseased and often incoherent utterances, called "death-bed recantations," or who believe a thing the sooner because sanctioned by a dying man or woman, or that they do anything toward proving what is right or what is wrong with respect to either our belief or our moral conduct!
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

Adj. powerless, impotent, unable, incapable, incompetent; inefficient, ineffective; inept; unfit, unfitted; unqualified, disqualified; unendowed; inapt, unapt; crippled, disabled &c. v.; armless[obs3].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Why, I said, that which is healthy causes health, and that which is unhealthy causes disease.
— from The Republic by Plato

22, 23, in regard to which the deterrent object is neither essential nor original (as Dr. Rée thinks:—rather is it that this object is only imported, under certain definite conditions, and always as something extra and additional).
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

160 It was as follows: “Collegium medicorum in Academia Parisiensi legitime congregatum, audita renunciatione sensorum, quibus demandata erat provincia examinandi apologiam sub nomine Mayerni Turqueti editam, ipsam unanimi consensu damnat, tanquam famosum libellum, mendacibus conviciis et impudentibus calumniis refertum, quæ nonnisi ab homine imperito, impudenti, temulento et furioso profiteri potuerunt.
— from The History of Chemistry, Volume 1 (of 2) by Thomas Thomson

It sometimes gives one a melancholy but mixed sensation to see one of the better sort of this class of politicians, not without talents or learning, absorbed for fifty years together in the all-engrossing topic of the day: mounting on it for exercise and recreation of his faculties, like the great horse at a riding-school, and after his short, improgressive, untired career, dismounting just where he got up; flying abroad in continual consternation on the wings of all the newspapers; waving his arm like a pump-handle in sign of constant change, and spouting out torrents of puddled politics from his mouth; dead to all interests but those of the state; seemingly neither older nor wiser for age; unaccountably enthusiastic, stupidly romantic, and actuated by no other motive than the mechanical operations of the spirit of newsmongering.(1) 'What things,' exclaims Beaumont in his verses to Ben Jonson, 'have we not seen done at the Mermaid! 'Then when there hath been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past, wit that might warrant be For the whole city to talk foolishly!'
— from Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners by William Hazlitt

"If your trouble is," said Psmith, "that you fear that you may be in unworthy company—" "Don't be an ass."
— from Mike and Psmith by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

Out of Pauline's presence the handsome face had regained its usual careless, debonair expression.
— from Love Works Wonders: A Novel by Charlotte M. Brame

[1225] See Ripley's Craniological chart in "Une carte de l'Indice Céphalique en Europe," L'Anthropologie , VII.
— from Man, Past and Present by A. H. (Augustus Henry) Keane

To them the degraded Koreish of the desert, who as they believed, and I think believed rightly, had fallen from the old Monotheism of their forefathers Abraham and Ismael, into the lowest fetishism, and with that into the lowest brutality and wretchedness—to them, while they were making idols of wood and stone; eating dead carcases; and burying their daughters alive; careless of chastity, of justice, of property; sunk in unnatural crimes, dead in trespasses and sins; hateful and hating one another—a man, one of their own people had come, saying: “I have a message from the one righteous God.
— from Alexandria and Her Schools Four Lectures Delivered at the Philosophical Institution, Edinburgh by Charles Kingsley

The thicket became taller, and not so dense; tulip trees and oaks in place of the aquatic undergrowth; and between them the fleeting glimmerings of the sky were, to her, an army of pale spectres, marching noiselessly past; no halting or wavering; on, on, in unbroken cavalcade, "down to the dead."
— from Alone by Marion Harland

Her two sisters did it up as though it usually came down about this time of the evening and she submitted in the same spirit .
— from Castellinaria, and Other Sicilian Diversions by Henry Festing Jones