En los países adonde la inmigración europea acude en menor número, los criollos se dedican a la industria, como ocurre en Chile y el Perú, especialmente en este último país, donde los salarios han subido a consecuencia
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

For Louvain, once rich with its libraries, cathedrals, statues, paintings, missals, manuscripts—now a ruin.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

LI Col Sellers Enlightens Washington Hawkins on the Customs of Congress CHAPTER LII How Senator Dilworthy Advanced Washington’s Interests CHAPTER LIII
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

Let captive Sítá be restored Ere, fierce as autumn's sun, her lord Send his keen arrows from the string To drink the life-blood of our king.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

inimīce lāmnae, Crīspe Sallustī, nisi temperātō splendeat ūsū , H. 2, 2, 2, thou foe to bullion, Crispus Sallustius, so it shine not with tempered use .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

de notre activité reste l'enrichissement et la communication sur place des ressources locales (c'est-à-dire des informations physiquement localisées à la bibliothèque), le développement de la lecture dans les quartiers… La salle multimédia ouverte en octobre 1996 doit encore trouver son rythme de croisière, la consultation des cédéroms et la bureautique devançant souvent l'utilisation d'internet.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

For courtesy wins woman all as well As valour may, but he that closes both Is perfect, he is Lancelot—taller indeed, Rosier and comelier, thou—but say I loved This knightliest of all knights, and cast thee back Thine own small saw, "We love but while we may," Well then, what answer?' He that while she spake, Mindful of what he brought to adorn her with, The jewels, had let one finger lightly touch The warm white apple of her throat, replied, 'Press this a little closer, sweet, until— Come, I am hungered and half-angered—meat, Wine, wine—and I will love thee to the death, And out beyond into the dream to come.'
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

So he went, and when he got there, he saw what seemed to be a large church surrounded by palaces.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

But it seemed to me that slight notices of these entirely new parts of the country would not be out of place, for they serve to put in strong contrast with the solitudes of 1835-6 the developed interior, with its mines, and agricultural wealth, and rapidly filling population, and its large cities, so far from the coast, with their education, religion, arts, and trade.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

Of course, the difference in crime percentage might depend upon the efficiency of the police force or upon the severity of the Municipal Judge, but undoubtedly it will be found more often to depend upon local conditions such as strikes, or the introduction of large numbers of workingmen from another district to take part in agricultural or industrial work.
— from Social Problems in Porto Rico by Fred K. Fleagle

It was probably about this time that the inquisitors of Toulouse were busy with burning the numerous witches of Dauphiné and Gascony, as related by Alonso de Spina, who admired on the walls of the Toulousan Inquisition pictures painted from their confessions, representing the Sabbat, with the votaries adoring, with lighted candles, Satan in the form of a goat.
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume III by Henry Charles Lea

There is a stop-cock in the lower cap, so that the egg may be fastened to any plate or stand.
— from Popular Scientific Recreations in Natural Philosphy, Astronomy, Geology, Chemistry, etc., etc., etc. by Gaston Tissandier

These silvery-laughing folk who now toddle along beside me upon their noisy little clogs, stepping very fast to get a peep at my foreign face, these but a moment ago were visions of archaic grace, illusions of necromancy, delightful phantoms; and I feel a vague resentment against them for thus materialising into simple country-girls.
— from Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: First Series by Lafcadio Hearn

Once she left Clayton's side and expostulated with her father, but he shook her from his arm roughly.
— from A Mountain Europa by Fox, John, Jr.

Before leaving Canadian soil, there are several things to mention, which we have observed in travelling across the continent.
— from Newfoundland to Cochin China By the Golden Wave, New Nippon, and the Forbidden City by Ethel Gwendoline Vincent

The memory was faint; he found it hard to imagine that the loss of a woman he did not love could so have afflicted him.
— from The Crown of Life by George Gissing