En presencia de hechos tan culminantes 30 como la jornada de Brumario, como el saco de Roma por Borbón, como la ruina de Jerusalén, ¿qué psicólogo, ni qué historiador podrá determinar los pensamientos que les precedieron o les siguieron en la cabeza de Bonaparte, Carlos 151
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Je dois filter l'information pour les usagers de la bibliothèque, ce qui signifie que je dois bien connaître les sites et les liens qu'ils proposent.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

—Fué dado por un poeta, José del Barco Centenera, en un poema que compuso en el siglo XVII, describiendo las bellezas del territorio que hoy ocupa la república austral.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

" Jeanne de Bourbon " Charlotte of Savoy " Mary of Burgundy " the Ladies of the Court of Catherine de Medicis " a Gentleman of the French Court, Sixteenth Century " the German Bourgeoisie, Sixteenth Century Costumes, Italian, Fifteenth Century Costumes of the Thirteenth Century " the Common People, Fourteenth Century " a rich Bourgeoise, of a Peasant-woman, and of a Lady of the Nobility, Fourteenth Century " a Young Nobleman and of a Bourgeois, Fourteenth Century " a Bourgeois or Merchant, of a Nobleman, and of a Lady of the Court or rich Bourgeoise, Fifteenth Century " a Mechanic's Wife and a rich Bourgeois, Fifteenth Century " Young Noblemen of the Court of Charles VIII " a Nobleman, a Bourgeois, and a Noble Lady, of the time of Louis XII " a rich Bourgeoise and a Nobleman, time of Francis
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

These instances demonstrate the possibility of a recall of judicial decisions by constitutional methods, and tend to refute impatient reformers who preach the necessity of a more summary procedure.
— from Our Changing Constitution by Charles W. (Charles Wheeler) Pierson

Josephine Daskam Bacon , Chairman of Publications.
— from Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts by Girl Scouts of the United States of America

This last outrage, by the way, was perpetrated on the unique series of the Apocalypse, a sequence of panels eighteen feet high with a total length of four hundred and seventy-two feet, woven in Paris about 1370 from designs by Jean de Bruges, court painter to the Emperor Charles V, for the use of the Duke of Anjou in his private chapel, and at a cost (in the money of to-day) of upward of $60,000.
— from Heart of Europe by Ralph Adams Cram

An old colored preacher, who displays many of the most marked peculiarities of his race, calling himself “John de Baptis,” and known as such by his companions,-from his habit of always taking his text, as he expresses it, from the “regulations ob de 2d chapter of Matthew, ‘And in those days came John de Baptis,’” came forward, and, taking his usual text, went on to show the necessity of following good advice, and rebuked his hearers for being more lawless than they were in Dixie.
— from The Negro in the American Rebellion: His Heroism and His Fidelity by William Wells Brown

For years before this satire appeared Skeffington was a personage in society, and if his plays secured him undying notoriety at the hands of the satirist, his costume was to produce the same result by the attention drawn to it by Gillray, who represented him, in 1799, as “Half Natural,” in a Jean de Bry coat, all sleeves and padding, and in the following year in a second caricature as dancing, below which is the legend: “So Skiffy skipt on, with his wonted grace.”
— from Some Eccentrics & a Woman by Lewis Melville

Juan de Borja, conde de Mayalde; Sevilla, á 20 de Noviembre de 1592.” Orig.
— from Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Spanish Language in the British Museum. Vol. 4 by Pascual de Gayangos

'Vivian en S. José de Bocas, cabecera de una de las misiones de los jesuitas,' in Durango.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 1, Wild Tribes The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 1 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

“Jean de Bry” coats, 250 .
— from The Dawn of the XIXth Century in England: A social sketch of the times by John Ashton

They have become the Children; they were the Fathers compared with those who lived in the infancy of the Jewish dispensation; but, compared with the present and advanced age, they are the Children, and the learned and pious of the nineteenth century are the Fathers.
— from American Lutheranism Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General Council, United Synod in the South) by F. (Friedrich) Bente

Celtic Fairy Tales , edited by Joseph Jacobs , profusely illustrated by John D. Batten, cloth, price $1.00.
— from With the Swamp Fox: A Story of General Marion's Young Spies by James Otis