Por lo general se ven verjas en los jardines, en las ventanas pequeñas o las que ofrecen un acceso peligroso desde la calle, las cuales
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

aux vainqueurs: «Au revoir dans les plaines de la Champagne!»
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

Minorum , sub anno 1400; Pétis de la Croix , II. 355, 383, 388; Hakluyt , ed.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Al igual que en la meseta de Méjico y en los altos valles, altozanos, sierras bajas y collados que se alzan al pie de la cordillera en la América Central, Colombia, Ecuador y Perú, aquí se ven hermosas tierras de pastoreo, adecuadas para la cría del ganado, producción de granos y frutas propias de las zonas templadas.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

From these traditions, his vizier Fadlallah composed a Mogul history in the Persian language, which has been used by Petit de la Croix, (Hist.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

But I would try to escape; and I stumbled as best I could into the Rue de Rivoli, across the Place de la Concorde and on to the Quai.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Abundan entonces los frutos, y en su busca vienen a rondar al pie de los árboles, el pecarí porcino, la avizora paca, el agutí de carne negra y sabrosa, el tajú bajo su coraza invulnerable; y, como ellos son cebo a su vez, acuden sobre su rastro el puma, el gato montés elegante y pintoresco, el aguará en piel de lobo, cuando no el jaguar
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Pétis de la Croix, relating the same campaign and professing to follow Fadlallah, i.e. Rashiduddin, says the king "retired to his fortress of Arbaca ."
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

LE COMTE DE GRAMONT Le comte de Gramont fut un des plus spirituels personnages de la cour de Louis XIV, mais un type accompli de libertin.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

El pájaro no alcanza a tener una cuarta de longitud desde el pico a la punta de la cola.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

And the Place de la Concorde lies silver blue under springtime skies.
— from Europe After 8:15 by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

His successor also ravaged as far as Constantinople, (P. de la Croix, p. 387.)
— from The Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and the Arts, July-December, 1827 by Various

On the Place de la Concorde and along the Champs-Élysées stood rank on rank of German cannon, silent enough now, but still menacing, their muzzles tilted skyward at that ominous slant one came to know so well.
— from Faery Lands of the South Seas by James Norman Hall

The head of the princesse de Lamballe, carried by the Revolutionists on a pike, was plunged into a pail of water set on a low chair placed up against this wall to clear it of the dribbling blood.
— from Historic Paris by Jetta Sophia Wolff

It did not impress us particularly; but we found ourselves turning again and again to the figure of an old woman in a fine brocade gown, with a ring of bread, which here they call pain de la couronne , over her arm, and what seemed to be strings of large pearls depending from her waist.
— from Italian Days and Ways by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton

—I strayed into the Place de la Concorde, beyond comparison the finest space in Paris.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 70, No. 431, September 1851 by Various

Almost at the same moment M. de Larochejaquelein crossed the Place de la Concorde, surrounded by a hundred men in blouses, who followed him in silence, and with an air of curiosity.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

At No. 1 of Place de la Contre Scarpe close by, a modern place , an inscription marks the site of the Cabaret de la “Pomme de Pin,” celebrated by the eulogies of Ronsard and Rabelais.
— from Historic Paris by Jetta Sophia Wolff

"Ay, I remember the starlit night; it was not in the gardens of the Tuileries nor in the Palais Royal,—it was on the Pont de la Concorde, on which we had paused, noting the starlight on the waters, that you said, pointing towards the walls of the Corps Legislatif , 'Paul, when I once get into the Chamber, how long will it take me to become First Minister of France?'" "Did I say so?—possibly; but I was too young then for admission to the Chamber, and I fancied I had so many years yet to spare in idle loiterings at the Fountain of Youth.
— from The Parisians — Volume 05 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron