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With regard to commerce and to provisioning the army, the following was placarded everywhere: PROCLAMATION You, peaceful inhabitants of Moscow, artisans and workmen whom misfortune has driven from the city, and you scattered tillers of the soil, still kept out in the fields by groundless fear, listen!
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
Detrás estaba mi patria, el pueblo y el peral cuyas flores se habían convertido en sabrosas frutas.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler
We can probably even pay you -- I've got a little budget for contract programmers."
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
Frasquito González poniéndose en pie y arrojando hacia el techo su gorra.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós
[4] famosas minas de Potosí, el Perú y, en menor grado, [5] Méjico y Chile.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
A Rosarito se le había mandado que durmiera; pero ella, precipitada ya por el 15 despeñadero de la desobediencia, velaba.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós
“Now,” said Monte Cristo, “that you have fortified yourself against all painful excitement, prepare yourself, my dear M. Cavalcanti, to meet your lost Andrea.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas
There are different varieties of Big5 codes, the most common being ET Big5 (the code used by the Taiwanese program ETen, pronounced Yi3tian1) and HKU Big5 (the code used for programs developed at Hong Kong University).
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno
POIROT EXPLAINS “Poirot, you old villain,” I said, “I’ve half a mind to strangle you!
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
Decir Parrón estas palabras y rodearme una nube de trabucos, todo fué un abrir y cerrar de ojos.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
"Pho!" exclaimed Patty; "you tell me that!
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill
20 Barker's College Chemistry 30 " Physics 50 Carhart and Chute's Physics 30 Send by Prepaid Express, put your name and address in package also full list of the books.
— from The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 31, June 10, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls by Various
Higher 25 Robinson's Rudiments 15 " Practical 20 " Higher 25 Sanford's Primary 10 " Common School 20 " Higher 25 Sheldon's Elementary 10 Send by Prepaid Express, put your name and address in package also full list of the books.
— from The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 28, May 20, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls by Various
Therefore, when once I have produced a really great work which I should gladly call mine, I shall, as soon as it has been recognised, publicly, enthusiastically, proclaim you to be my teacher, and hand over to you my laurel wreath."
— from Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 2. The Romantic School in Germany by Georg Brandes
J'ai vendu mon hôtel de Paris et n'ai pas encore pu y reconstituer d'établissement.
— from Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. by Henry Reeve
But only one who has heard its pastoral episode performed year after year from childhood in the hushed cathedral, where pendent lamps or sconces make the gloom of aisle and choir and airy column half intelligible, can invest this music with long associations of accumulated awe.
— from Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III by John Addington Symonds
If anything disgusting offends the sight on the ground, as phlegm, etc., put your foot on it.
— from George Washington's Rules of Civility Traced to their Sources and Restored by Moncure D. Conway by George Washington
When he remonstrated with them for doing so, their reply was, 'No vés que soy Hiaqui: y dezianlo, porque essa palabra, y nombre, significa, el que habla a gritos.'
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 1, Wild Tribes The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 1 by Hubert Howe Bancroft
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