Des murmures et des coups de sifflet s'élèvent, et l'acteur, peu habitué à ce genre de traitement, se fâche et lâche tout haut le mot: Imbéciles!
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

[7] Por el contrario, en los grandes centros, como en Río de Janeiro, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Santiago, la Habana, Veracruz y otros muchos, existe demanda considerable y sostenida de pescado.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Another valet, with his finger over the mouth of a bottle, was sprinkling Eau de Cologne on the Emperor’s pampered body with an expression which seemed to say that he alone knew where and how much Eau de Cologne should be sprinkled.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Thither will we: King's Procureur M. Ethys de Corny, and whatsoever of authority a Permanent Committee can lend, shall go with us.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

3 idiosyncrasies a woman may experience during conception.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

avait supplié tous les Dieux, que le désir d'une part dans l' offrande avait conduits á l' açwamédha, cette grande cérémonie de ce roi magnanime; et, dans ce moment, l' époux de Śántá les conjurait ainsi pour la seconde fois : “Cet homme en prières , c'est le roi Daçaratha, qui est privé de fils.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

But if my eyes do cozen me so, and I Giving them no occasion, sure I'll have A whore, shall piss them out next day.
— from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

Many English Deaneries claim to possess arms which presumably the occupant may use to impale his own coat with, after the example of the Dean of Exeter.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

(Mr. Warburg makes it plain in his book that he thinks little of Mr. Elmer Davis' conception of his job; but he does not mention that Mr. Sherwood, theoretically Mr. Davis' subordinate, ran foreign operations without much reference to Mr. Davis or to any other part of the Federal government.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

Museo Erudito del Cuzco , 1839, No. 21.
— from Travels in Peru and India While Superintending the Collection of Chinchona Plants and Seeds in South America, and Their Introduction into India. by Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir

The manikin smiled a smile of malicious content and security, puffed a whiff of smoke contemptuously toward me, and said, with a still more elaborate drawl: “Come—go gently now; don't put on too many airs with your betters.”
— from The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut by Mark Twain

Their sketches are made in a rude manner, but they seem to give as just an idea of a country, although the plan is not so exact, as more experienced draughtsmen could do.
— from Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America, in the Years 1766, 1767 and 1768 by Jonathan Carver

More than once have I seen a mother, elegantly dressed, come hurrying to the garden, sit down on a bench, and nurse a baby handed to her by a nurse in cap and ribbons.
— from Paris Vistas by Helen Davenport Gibbons

To sum up the position of the Act to-day, with its myriad encircling decided cases, one can only say, with the immortal Sergeant Arabin, that it “bristles with pitfalls as an egg is full of meat.”
— from The Law and the Poor by Parry, Edward Abbott, Sir

The rest came round by Cawnpore and Lucknow, Benares, Jubbulpore, and Poonah, and so on to Hyderabad, their farthest inland point, where Lady Brassey's more elaborated diary commences.
— from The Last Voyage: To India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' by Annie Brassey

It is quite strange, and at the same time amusing to me, to see her anxiety about my eating, drinking, catching cold, and all that sort of thing, as I have been so long unaccustomed to these little attentions.
— from Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia From Melbourne To The Gulf Of Carpentaria by William John Wills

Mrs. Frost can afford no more eau de Cologne.
— from Dynevor Terrace; Or, The Clue of Life — Volume 2 by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

While this did not make the surplus as much as was desirable, we were used to economies, to making every dollar count.
— from The Spirit of 1906 by George W. Brooks

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— from Parish Priests and Their People in the Middle Ages in England by Edward Lewes Cutts