The chain of the Maritime Andes, reaching eastward across Colombia and Venezuela, approaches the Caribbean coast in the latter country.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers
The eye is the one worn by my aunt right enough, and contains the cipher of which she spoke.
— from The Disappearing Eye by Fergus Hume
When Bartley returned to the game the players had dwindled to a small group--'Wishful, the man called "Panhandle," a fat Mexican, a railroad engineer, and Cheyenne.
— from Partners of Chance by Henry Herbert Knibbs
‘From that time’, says a Frankish chronicle, commenting on this scene, ‘there was no more a Roman Empire at Constantinople.’
— from Europe in the Middle Ages by Ierne L. (Ierne Lifford) Plunket
Many ancient races effected a compromise in order to retain a fitting military appearance, for a bare-faced warrior has but little of terror in his aspect.
— from Here are Ladies by James Stephens
Immediately it appeared with open mouth and rolling eyes, and cast itself at the saint's feet.
— from The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together with Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by James (Archaeologist) Grant
Frà quali s’ intenda il mandare al Re, et alli Cat ci .
— from The Wars of Religion in France 1559-1576 The Huguenots, Catherine de Medici and Philip II by James Westfall Thompson
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