[FR] Robert Ware (Colorado) #Créateur de OneLook Dictionaries, un moteur permettant une recherche rapide dans 650 dictionnaires Créé par Robert Ware, OneLook Dictionaries est un moteur de recherche puisant dans les quelque 3 millions de mots de 750 dictionnaires (chiffres 2001) traitant de sujets divers (affaires, argot, généralités, informatique et internet, médecine, religion, sciences, sports, technologie, etc.)
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Sentence of death, executed upon many who had remained staunch in their refusal to obey the royal edict, had been deferred, in the case of Palissy, only p. 168 by the artifice of friends in power.
— from Palissy the Huguenot Potter: A True Tale by C. L. (Cecilia Lucy) Brightwell

Commenting on de Blainville's definition of life, which he adopts, he says:—"Cette lumineuse définition ne me paraît laisser rien d'important à désirer, si ce n'est une indication plus directe et plus explicite de ces deux conditions fondamentales co-relatives, nécessairement inséparables de l'état vivant, un organisme déterminé et un milieu convenable."
— from The Principles of Biology, Volume 1 (of 2) by Herbert Spencer

His [pg 37] education is generally understood to have consisted of an exhaustive study of the "How-To-Make" column in the Boys' Own Paper , completed by a short course of domestic engineering under Mr. W. HEATH ROBINSON.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 18, 1917 by Various

And this, you know, had its own distinct effect upon my nerves, for it seemed to bring the beastliness of the thing crashing down on to me in a fresh way.
— from Carnacki, the Ghost Finder by William Hope Hodgson

Calvin, Institutes, 1:3:3— “ Those who rightly judge will always agree that there is an indelible sense of divinity engraven upon men's minds. ”
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 1 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong

I have written to Mrs. Wilson and my rector, thinking they may know of some opening or vacancy where I could work with my hands or do errands until my eyes are well."
— from The Undercurrent by Robert Grant

Four days later the Postmaster-General informed me that he had decided to place the Money Order Department entirely under my management, but that he wished to consider further as to the mode.
— from The Life of Sir Rowland Hill and the History of Penny Postage, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Hill, Rowland, Sir

Those clothes were built with an eye to largeness of movement which scarcely insured shape or draping, even upon me.
— from Then I'll Come Back to You by Larry Evans

I get every day fonder of dearest, excellent Uncle Mensdorff and the dear cousins, who are so amiable and good and unassuming; really, in society they keep quite in the background.
— from The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 1, 1837-1843 by Queen of Great Britain Victoria