Madame heard this; and, questioning her countenance, I almost thought the tale won her ear: "Il n'y a que les Anglaises pour ces sortes d'entreprises," said she: "sont-elles donc intrépides ces femmes là!"
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Crookes, Notes of an Enquiry into Phenomena called Spiritual, during the years 1870-73 (London), Part III, p. 87.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

First Division, Brigadier-General W. P. Carlin; Second Division, Brigadier-General John D. Morgan; Third Division, Brigadier-General A. Baird.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

The hand slips out of his, for the poor creature sinks down upon the earth, insensible.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

"The angel said to Daniel: There shall stand up yet," (after Cyrus, under whom this still is), "three kings in Persia," (Cambyses, Smerdis, Darius); "and the fourth who shall then come," (Xerxes) "shall be far richer than they all, and far stronger, and shall stir up all his people against the Greeks.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

Related Words : Mecanógrafo , typewriter ( the person ); taquígrafo , stenographer ; máquina con caracteres en español , typewriter with Spanish keyboard ; máquina de escribir de escritura visible , typewriter with visible writing ; teclado , keyboard ; tecla para mayúsculas , (shift) key for capitals ; tecla para minúsculas , key for small letters ; cifras , numerals ; signos , signs ; palanca ( lever ) de retroceso , back spacer ; palanca de espacios , spacer ; espacios sencillos , single spacing ; espacios dobles ; espacios triples ; papel de máquina ; papel carbón or de calcar ; papel de estarcir , stencil paper ; cinta , ribbon ; cinta de un color ; cinta de dos colores ; color negro , rojo , púrpura ; coma ; dos puntos , colon ; punto y coma ; punto ; puntos suspensivos ; acento ; acento agudo ; acento grave ; acento circunflejo ; paréntesis ; abrir el paréntesis ; cerrar el paréntesis ; signo de interrogación ; signo de admiración ; guión , hyphen ; subrayado , underlined ; apóstrofo ; raya oblicua , slant bar ; signo de etcétera ; signo de tanto por ciento ; signo de pesos .
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

It was like a coal-pit still standing, holding by the roots to the broken soil, and whose branches, like fine black paper cuttings, showed distinctly on the watery ceiling.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

[Transcriber's Note: Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] Contents CHAPTER ONE Wings of the Brave CHAPTER TWO A Present from Satan CHAPTER THREE Broken Wings CHAPTER FOUR Hero's Homecoming CHAPTER FIVE Nazi Intrigue CHAPTER SIX Pilots' Plans CHAPTER SEVEN Dave's Plan CHAPTER EIGHT
— from Dave Dawson, Flight Lieutenant by Robert Sidney Bowen

The Duke of Bouillon soon afterwards departed for the Netherlands, where the regular envoy to the commonwealth, Paul Chouart Seigneur de Buzanval, had already been preparing the States-General for their entrance into the league.
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) by John Lothrop Motley

"Oh, you don't care," snapped Paul, crossly, "so don't pretend.
— from Paul the Courageous by Mabel Quiller-Couch

“Please continue,” said Doulebov to Shabalov.
— from The Created Legend by Fyodor Sologub

"Their availing themselves of this time of danger and distress to establish a paper currency, so destructive of credit, justifies your dissolving them."
— from Give Me Liberty: The Struggle for Self-Government in Virginia by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker

She had allowed the Earl of Leicester to return, she said, because of her love for the poor and oppressed people, but in many of her official and in all her private communications, she denounced the men who governed that people as ungrateful wretches and impudent liars!
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley