With one mighty sweep of its potent weapon, all caution, all care, all prudence were levelled low: death sat at the tables of the great, stretched itself on the cottager's pallet, seized the dastard who fled, quelled the brave man who resisted: despondency entered every heart, sorrow dimmed every eye.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Jules Loiseleur, La Doctrine Secrète des Templiers , p. 40 (1872).
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Observé que muchos sitios (y no solamente el Proyecto Gutenberg o Wiretap) proponían libros en línea, y que sería útil tener una lista completa que permita telecargar o leer libros donde se encuentren en la
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

In this plan, what is now Queen street is duly laid down, in direct continuation of the Kingston Road westward, without regard to the engineering difficulties presented by ravines; but it is entitled in large letters, "Dundas Street."
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

De nombreux sites de commerce électronique sont maintenant multilingues, et il existe maintenant des sociétés qui vendent des produits permettant la localisation des sites (adaptation des sites
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Mon meilleur souvenir est lié à la mise en oeuvre d'un serveur qui permet la lecture de son courrier depuis n'importe quel ordinateur muni d'une connexion internet.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Adj. liquefied &c. v., liquescent, liquefiable; deliquescent, soluble, colliquative[obs3].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Et cliez les joueurs novices, ils sont quelquefois accuses au point d'eveiller le sourire sur les levres des spectateurs."
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

But there, too, many a poison-tree has root, And midnight listens to the lion's roar, And long, long deserts scorch the camel's foot, Or heaving whelm the helpless caravan;
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Ten minutes later Mr. Barker, dust-begrimed and enveloped in a long linen duster, swaggered in.
— from Just Around the Corner: Romance en casserole by Fannie Hurst

Had he been able to do so he could hardly have failed to gain a complete victory over Johnson, but fortunately for the latter, the Iroquois, who had lost many of their braves, became sullen and unmanageable, and the French Canadians, whose veteran leader, Legardeur de St. Pierre, had been killed, showed signs of wavering, and it was not until after considerable delay that the advance was made with the regulars leading the way.
— from With Rogers on the Frontier: A Story of 1756 by J. Macdonald (James Macdonald) Oxley

It seems to set her apart from little Leila Dick, so that when I hear people speak to her, I am always startled and surprised.
— from Contrary Mary by Temple Bailey

About midnight on 28th November, Lord Lyttelton died suddenly in bed, his valet having left him for a moment to fetch a spoon for stirring his medicine.
— from The Book of Dreams and Ghosts by Andrew Lang

Ten lines, fifty lines of "Les Légendes des Siècles," and I always think that it is the greatest poetry I have ever read, but after a few pages the book is laid down and forgotten.
— from Confessions of a Young Man by George Moore

63 The word is probably related to Eng. slack , loose, lax, Dan. slak , Norse slāk .
— from Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch A contribution to the study of the linguistic relations of English and Scandinavian by George T. (George Tobias) Flom