" The wine was passed round freely, and the conversation kept up pleasantly; but the evening seemed too short for Rudy, although it was midnight when he left the miller's house, after this his first visit.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen
Wà nay kinahanglan ug pulgadíra, matáun na lang, You don’t need a measuring stick.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
Well they didn't succeed in any of that, not in the slightest, even my landlady, who is quite a simple person - and I will give you here her name in full respect, her name is Mrs. Grubach - even Mrs. Grubach was understanding enough to see that an arrest like this has no more significance than an attack carried out on the street by some youths who are not kept under proper control.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka
20 On the other hand, Major Wm. H. Bishop, of the 20th Kansas, was credited in a soldier’s letter written home, which first came to light in this country, with killing unarmed prisoners during the advance on Caloocan.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount
Prince Arthur, son of King Uther Pendragon and Queen Ygerne, the model English gentleman, in whom all the virtues are perfected (Magnificence).
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser
kayhà (usually pronounced kahà ) 1 perhaps, possibly.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
Lantáwun mu ang kaugmáun ug panagána, Look to the future and be prepared.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
Then followed a battle of looks between them, but the captain soon knuckled under, put up his weapon, and resumed his seat, grumbling like a beaten dog.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
[FR] Steven Krauwer (Utrecht, Pays-Bas) #Coordinateur d'ELSNET (European Network of Excellence in Human Language Technologies)
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert
KENTUCKY, Union party in, 152; necessity for Freedmen's Bureau in, advocated and opposed, 134; members from, their opposition to the Freedmen's Bureau, 149; her opposition to the Government, 153; laws of, relating to whites and blacks, 154; during the war, 211; will submit, 343; the United States, an appendage to, 362.
— from History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by William Horatio Barnes
Monasteries were rebuilt, and the praise of God was kept up perpetually by a devoted brotherhood.
— from A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Volume 1 by Thomas D'Arcy McGee
Richard kept up [Pg 26] the old feud, and was always found on the opposite side from his nephew.
— from Warwick, the Kingmaker by Charles Oman
On the 14th the King, under pretence of inquiry after them, repeated this prohibition to M. le Duc de Berry and Madame his wife, and also to M. d’Orleans and Madame d’Orleans, who had been included in it.
— from Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Complete by Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de
Just enough to keep us pushing forward and toward the ideal we have set for ourselves, which, even though we miss it, adds strength to purpose as well as to muscle.
— from In the Early Days along the Overland Trail in Nebraska Territory, in 1852 by Gilbert L. Cole
He found, too, in her letter a phrase that bore out his suspicion, a complaint of the length of the winter, a confessed longing for his return in the New Year, which was a breach of her habitual pretence, which never took him in for an instant and which she kept up perhaps for that very reason, that she did not care when she saw him again.
— from The Judge by Rebecca West
2d, as there are none of the rebels who have not friends among the King's faithful subjects, it is not easy to guess how far a severity of this kind, unnecessarily pushed, may alienate the affections even of those from the Government.
— from The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.) by J. Pringle (James Pringle) Thomson
Humann, K., und Puchstein, O., Reisen in Kleinasien und Nordsyrien .
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer
If we might keep this awe upon us still, If we might walk for ever in the power And in the shadow of the mystery, Which has been spread around us at this hour, This might suffice to guard us from much ill, This might go far to keep us pure and free. {125} THE SAME CONTINUED.
— from The Story of Justin Martyr, and Other Poems by Richard Chenevix Trench
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