The eight great polished columns stood up in the dusk like so many huge piles supporting the threatening, crumbling, big-bellied cliffs whose layers were represented by the circular, parallel, waving lines of the balconies of the grand, first and second tiers of boxes.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
[252] ANOTHER WAY ALITER TAKE PEPPER, CELERY SEED, DRY MINT, LASER ROOT, HONEY, VINEGAR AND BROTH.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius
" Do you think that kings of business like Andrew Carnegie, John Wanamaker, Robert C. Ogden, and other lesser powers in the commercial world would have attained their present commanding success had they hesitated and haggled about a dollar or two of salary when they began their life-work?
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden
I sent for the landlord, and, with the greatest caution, skill and tact, I told him that I was interested in this poor creature, so abandoned by every one and deprived of everything, and I wished to do something for him.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant
lanza el pájaro campana su sonoro tañido.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
Thither of the wall the quartermile flat handicappers, M. C. Green, H. Shrift, T. M. Patey, C. Scaife, J. B. Jeffs, G. N. Morphy, F. Stevenson, C. Adderly and W. C. Huggard, started in pursuit.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce
But even this democratic and individual age may profit by turning back for a time to consider some of the general truths, as valid to-day as ever, to which Pope gave such inimitable expression, or to study the outlines of that noble picture of the true critic which St. Beuve declared every professed critic should frame and hang up in his study.
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope
En ce qui concerne les livres numériques pour ordinateurs, des solutions logicielles comparables ont été développées, par exemple par Adobe et par Microsoft, qui permettent de désigner un ordinateur ou un PDA comme support de lecture unique d'un livre.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert
The Polish cannon swept the bridge, but the gunners were picked off by sharp-shooters and stretched in death beside their guns.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 08 (of 15), Russian by Charles Morris
"I am afraid that she will not escape persecution from any such professional chivalry," said the judge.
— from Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope
But there are many establishments for preparing coffee scattered throughout the south and the middle west, and the business has grown to considerable proportions on the Pacific coast.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers
Some prosperous constables sit or stand about.
— from The Silver Box: A Comedy in Three Acts by John Galsworthy
he fourth century, when bishop Theophilus broke to pieces the statues at Alexandria, he found some which were hollow, and placed in such a manner against a wall that a priest could slip unperceived behind them, and speak to the ignorant populace through their mouths 360 .
— from A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 2 (of 2) by Johann Beckmann
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