[4] Thinking of the past, we are not so much concerned with the picture that dead men have placed in our path like ever so many bill boards and posters!
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius
"Poor little Ephemera!" said the oak; "what a terribly short life!"
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen
We see that in spite of the difficulty of finding other food, the accused, or, as we may say, my client, has often during his peculiar life exhibited signs of repentance, and of wishing to give up this clerical diet.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Stretching from the point indicated, there was on the right side of the way, a range of "park lots," extending some two miles to the west, all bounded on the south by what at the present time is Queen Street, but which, from being the great thoroughfare along the front of this very range, was long known as "Lot Street."
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding
Cette première lecture, éventuellement suivie d'une seconde en cas d'hésitation du lecteur, donne lieu soit à un refus (signifié par lettre et systématiquement argumenté), soit à un premier accord à valider par le directeur des publications.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert
Parry , lerte eviti, skermi.
— from English-Esperanto Dictionary by J. C. (John Charles) O'Connor
Lumley shrugged his shoulders, and replied in the same tone,— "Yes,—provided you keep to the proverb, 'Les extremes se touchent,' and the lovely grandchild accompany the venerable grandmamma."
— from Alice, or the Mysteries — Book 01 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
Conservative Party [Lene ESPERSEN] (sometimes known as Conservative People's Party); Danish People's Party [Pia KJAERSGAARD]; Liberal Party [Anders Fogh RASMUSSEN]; Liberal Alliance
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
THE END THE RIVERSIDE PRESS LIMITED, EDINBURGH SINISTER STREET By Compton Mackenzie In Two Volumes.
— from Years of Plenty by Ivor John Carnegie Brown
Like a true soldier, like [Pg 99] a knight of chivalry, the Prawn lives, eats, sleeps in armour.
— from A Year at the Shore by Philip Henry Gosse
I think we shall be capable with a little help, of defending our possessions long enough, so that England will be ruined if she persists in destroying us....
— from Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence, Vol. 2 by Elizabeth Sarah Kite
Those pretty legs each stand for the murder of a coral snake!”
— from South American Jungle Tales by Horacio Quiroga
The peasant proprietor, like every sensible owner of property, is hostile to Socialism.
— from British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals by J. Ellis Barker
By the Author of “A Ride to Picture Land,” etc. Size, 15 1 / 2 by 11 inches.
— from Catalogue of S. W. Partridge & Co.'s Popular Illustrated Books by England) S. W. Partridge & Co. (London
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