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préventif et curatif du café
Petit, H. De l'emploi préventif et curatif du café, notamment dans les congestions cérébrales.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

por el centro de Chile
quinientas millas por el centro de Chile, hasta Puerto Montt.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

para el comercio de carnes
[6] inferior a la requerida para el comercio de carnes.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

primeras en colmarlo de caricias
[42-2] entonces un cuadro tan sublime como espantoso.—Varias mujeres, sentadas en el suelo, sostenían en sus faldas y en sus brazos al expirante patriota, siendo las primeras en colmarlo de caricias y bendiciones, como antes fueron las primeras en 15 pedir su muerte.—Los hombres
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

parte e cotai doni conformi
Troppo sarebbe larga la bigoncia che ricevesse il sangue ferrarese, e stanco chi 'l pesasse a oncia a oncia, che donera` questo prete cortese per mostrarsi di parte; e cotai doni conformi fieno al viver del paese.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Paradiso by Dante Alighieri

previous excitement cooled down completely
Meanwhile, Cheriton’s previous excitement cooled down completely.
— from An English Squire by Christabel R. (Christabel Rose) Coleridge

pays est composé de contrées
He writes: "Ce pays est composé de contrées silencieuses comme le tombeau, des plaines vastes comme des départements, des steppes glacés plus affreux que ceux de la Sibérie, de forêts chétives, rabougries comme on n'en voit que dans le voisinage des glaciers du Nord."
— from The Barren Ground of Northern Canada by Warburton Pike

PONY EXPRESS COWBOY DAVE CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATED BOOKS FOR BOYS By FRANK V. WEBSTER ONLY A FARM BOY TOM, THE TELEPHONE BOY THE BOY FROM THE RANCH THE YOUNG TREASURER HUNTER BOB, THE CASTAWAY THE YOUNG FIREMEN OF LAKEVILLE THE NEWSBOY PARTNERS THE BOY PILOT OF THE LAKES THE TWO BOY GOLD MINERS JACK, THE RUNAWAY COMRADES OF THE SADDLE THE BOYS OF BELLWOOD SCHOOL THE HIGH SCHOOL RIVALS BOB CHESTER'S GRIT AIRSHIP ANDY DARRY, THE LIFE SAVER DICK, THE BANK BOY BEN HARDY'S FLYING MACHINE THE BOYS OF THE WIRELESS HARRY WATSON'S HIGH SCHOOL DAYS THE BOY SCOUTS OF LENOX TOM TAYLOR AT WEST POINT COWBOY DAVE THE BOYS OF THE BATTLESHIP JACK OF THE PONY EXPRESS COWBOY DAVE CONTENTS I. AFTER STRAY CATTLE II.
— from Cowboy Dave; Or, The Round-up at Rolling River by Frank V. Webster

par embuscade contre des colonnes
One of these affiches is, I think, worth quoting as a historical document:— “AVIS À LA POPULATION “Le 25 Aout 1914, des habitants de Lunéville ont fait une attaque par embuscade contre des colonnes et trains allemands.
— from Verdun to the Vosges: Impressions of the War on the Fortress Frontier of France by Gerald Campbell

Pourvoyeuse en chef des celludes
Fancy such an one, and you will have before you la Mère Bompart, Pourvoyeuse en chef des celludes du Parc-aux-Cerfs .
— from Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry With Minute Details of Her Entire Career as Favorite of Louis XV by Lamothe-Langon, Etienne-Léon, baron de

play El Carro del Cielo
Though he is said to have written a play, El Carro del Cielo , at thirteen, he was not very precocious for a Spaniard, his first authentic appearances being made at the Feast of St. Isidore in 1620 and 1622.
— from A History of Spanish Literature by James Fitzmaurice-Kelly

Physiologie Expérimentale Cours du Collège
[224] E. J. Marey: “Le Transformisme et la Physiologie Expérimentale, Cours du Collège de France,” Revue Scientifique , 2 me série, iv., p.
— from Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work by A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard

pertenecerle el conocimiento del comiso
“Id. de la Junta de Competencias, sobre pertenecerle el conocimiento del comiso que se expresa, y hauer formado competencia el Consejo de Guerra; Madrid y Octubre 27 de 1716” f. 36 6.
— from Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Spanish Language in the British Museum. Vol. 4 by Pascual de Gayangos


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