portrait , m. , image d'une personne reproduite par la peinture, le dessin, la photographie, etc. Portugal , pays situé à l'ouest de l'Espagne.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

“With every pleasing, every prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?”—She wants a heart.
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

Aristotle (385-322), disciple of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great; founder of the Peripatetic school; greatest of philosophers, master of all knowledge—physics, metaphysics, natural philosophy, ethics, politics, poetics, sociology, logic, rhetoric, etc.; ii , 56 ; iii , 35 ; might have been a great orator, i , 4 .
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Opiniones quasvis et decreta contra verbum Dei astruunt, ne non offendant patronum, sed ut retineant favorem procerum, et populi plausum, sibique ipsis opes accumulent.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

To test the relative color-sensitiveness of plain emulsion plates, plates stained with eosine, and plates stained with the blue-myrtle chlorophyl, I exposed one of each kind through the same yellow screen, giving each five minutes exposure, on the same piece of copy, which was the chromo-lithograph already described.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 492, June 6, 1885 by Various

We all had to move our platoons across country to a certain position, each platoon proceeding separately, but, of course, keeping its correct distance from the others, and, by means of scouts and runners, keeping in communication.
— from At Ypres with Best-Dunkley by Thomas Hope Floyd

Pea (edible podded) Pisum sativum var.
— from Botany: The Science of Plant Life by Norman Taylor

Matthew Paris expresses himself thus:—Habent insuper Templarii in Christianitate novem millia maneriorum; Hospitalii vero novem decem, præter emolumenta et varios proventus ex fraternitatibus et prædicationibus provenientes, et per privilegia sua accrescentes.— Matth. Paris., ad annum 1244, in Henry III., lib. xi.
— from The History of the Crusades (vol. 2 of 3) by J. Fr. (Joseph Fr.) Michaud

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— from Notes and Queries, Number 56, November 23, 1850 by Various

[990] Feb. 4, 1538, to Luther and “ Domini in Christo et venerandi et amandi ,” i.e. the other theologians at Wittenberg, “Briefwechsel,” 11, p. 328: “ Parata est paulo post satis feliciter per Christum ordinatio ecclesiarum totius regni Daniæ a sereniss.
— from Luther, vol. 6 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

Qui, ut coenati quiescerent, concubia nocte visum esse in somnis ei qui erat in hospitio, ilium alterum orare ut subveniret, quod sibi a caupone interitus pararetur; eum primo perterritum somnio surrexisse; deinde cum se colligisset, idque visum pro nihilo habendum esse duxisset, recubuisse; tum, ei dormienti eundem ilium visum esse rogare, ut quoniam sibi vivo non subvenisset, mortem suam ne inultam esse pateretur; se interfectum in plaustrum a caupone esse conjectum, & supra stercus injectum; petere, ut mani ad portum adesset, priusquam plaustrum ex oppido exiret.
— from Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects by John Aubrey