» Qu'est-ce que la femme a cru entendre?--Son mari entendait-il aussi quelque chose?--La femme qu'a-t-elle prié son mari de faire?--Charles s'est-il exécuté de bonne grâce?--Qu'est-ce qu'il se proposait de faire, une fois descendu?--Croyait-il au dicton: «Mieux vaut tard que jamais»? Expliquez les irrégularités des mots soulignés.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann
John Eglinton looked in the tangled glowworm of his lamp.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce
Ce monument, aussi gigantesque qu'impuissant, arreterait bien les incursions de quelques Nomades; mais il n'a jamais empeche les invasions des Turcs, des Mongols, et des Mandchous.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon
p. 709-768,) and by M. Chais, (Lettres sur les Jubiles et les Indulgences, tom. ii.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon
Anyways, he spoke out loud after while not just exactly LOUD, I mean, but
— from Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family, Especially William by Booth Tarkington
A two-junction circuit, formed of a junction D placed in the hole in A, and another junction E located in the hole in B, are connected to a delicate galvanometer
— from Pyrometry: A Practical Treatise on the Measurement of High Temperatures by Charles R. (Charles Robert) Darling
“Say, you fellows are just exactly like I thought you’d be—regular hellions.
— from Local Color by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
Jack, especially, liked it, and was exceptionally good at it.
— from The Bungalow Boys North of Fifty-Three by John Henry Goldfrap
Every student should, therefore, in the writer's opinion, take a systematic course in logic, or carefully study by himself such books as Jevons' "Elementary Lessons in Logic" or John Stuart Mill's "Logic."
— from How to Study by George Fillmore Swain
To the heart that has felt it and that is the true judge, every loss is irretrievable and every joy indestructible.
— from Interpretations of Poetry and Religion by George Santayana
Beïque on Sherbrooke Street, February 1, 1908, with Judge Eugène Lafontaine in the chair.
— from Montreal, 1535-1914. Vol. 2. Under British Rule, 1760-1914 by William H. (William Henry) Atherton
The Apostle of Americanism Books by Gilbert Chinard Volney et L'Amérique Jefferson et les Idéologues Les Réfugiés Huguenots en Amérique The Commonplace Book of Thomas Jefferson Les Amitiés Françaises de Jefferson The Literary Bible of Jefferson BUST OF THOMAS JEFFERSON
— from Thomas Jefferson, the Apostle of Americanism by Gilbert Chinard
We will now pay a visit to the John in question,—a certain Mr. John Eames, living in London, a bachelor, as the intelligent reader will certainly have discovered, and cousin to Miss Grace Crawley.
— from The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
Jacobus Eyckius. LETTER II.
— from The Eve of All-Hallows; Or, Adelaide of Tyrconnel, v. 2 of 3 by Matthew Weld Hartstonge
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