H2 anchor CHAPTER XXIV THE FLIGHT IN THE HEATHER: THE QUARREL lan and I were put across Loch Errocht under cloud of night, and went down its eastern shore to another hiding-place near the head of Loch Rannoch, whither we were led by one of the gillies from the Cage.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

[22] los Estados Unidos consumen su propio carbón, mientras que en los países
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Concluídos los estudios universitarios con aprovechamiento asombroso, pues no hubo clase en que no ganase las más eminentes notas, empezó a trabajar, prometiendo con su aplicación
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Tras el ingeniero entró en la estancia una criada.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Another one tells you that this is an exaggeration; that the two chief villages, Port Louis and Curepipe, fall short of heavenly perfection; that nobody lives in Port Louis except upon compulsion, and that Curepipe is the wettest and rainiest place in the world.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

On peut aisément imaginer que, si le WWW Consortium ne propose pas de système d'authentification numérique des pages web, éditeurs et auteurs vont se tourner vers des produits éditoriaux plus repérés (livre, cédérom) et pour lesquels existe un circuit de distribution.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

They meet and clasp hands, and, sitting down within the house, at length enjoy unchecked converse.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

98 Chair of History and Constitutional Law, Edinburgh University, candidature for, xxiii.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 25 by Robert Louis Stevenson

There's a coterie of German Jews in Paris living entirely upon consuls.”
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

It does not appear to me very probable that during the present generation at least the Boers, either of the Transvaal or the Orange Free State, are likely (except under compulsion, which presupposes a deplorable war) to enter any confederacy of South African States, on any terms whatever, under the British flag; and therefore should the large British mining population now existent in the country gradually vanish, and the Boer population at the same time very much increase, the eventful confederation may take place under some other flag than the Union Jack.
— from Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia Being a Narrative of Events in Matabeleland Both Before and During the Recent Native Insurrection Up to the Date of the Disbandment of the Bulawayo Field Force by Frederick Courteney Selous

We lived entirely upon coffee, milk, and dried cherries, which ruined our health.
— from History of Frederick the Second, Called Frederick the Great. by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

Their social life existed under conditions that were incredible to me.
— from Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch by Mary E. Bradley Lane

Et j'ai fait un texte de la loi et un commentaire de la loi et
— from The History of Antiquity, Vol. 6 (of 6) by Max Duncker

But if thou obstinately wilt return into Egypt, that is, if thou contract marriage, confederacy, and league with such { 66} princes as do maintain and advance idolatry (such as the Emperor, which is no less enemy unto Christ than ever was Nero); if for the pleasure and friendship (I say) of such princes them return to thine old abominations, before used under the papistry, then assuredly, O England, thou shall be plagued and brought to desolation by the means of those whose favour thou seekest, and by whom thou art procured to fall from Christ and to serve Antichrist."
— from John Knox by William M. (William Mackergo) Taylor

The ooka-snake lives entirely upon cocoanut milk which gives him a gentle disposition admirably adapted for petting.
— from The Cruise of the Kawa: Wanderings in the South Seas by George S. (George Shepard) Chappell

By passing himself off in various characters he laid everybody under contribution.
— from Modern French Prisons Bicêtre; St. Pélagie; St. Lazare; La Force; The Conciergerie; La Grande and La Petite Roquettes; Mazas; La Santé by Arthur Griffiths