olla , f. , saucepan, pot; —— podrida , dish composed of different sorts of meats and vegetables boiled together.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

We passed Prairie du Chien, another of Father Marquette's camping-places; and after some hours of progress through varied and beautiful scenery, reached La Crosse.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

más hasta Punta Arenas, el principal puerto de Costa Rica sobre el Pacífico y lugar de residencias preferido por las clases acomodadas.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Il ne faut point parler de corde dans la famille d'un pendu —Never speak of a rope in the family of one who has been hanged.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

à la mere, le Conseil estime que l’on pourroit se servir du moyen proposé, dans la confiance qu’il a, que Dieu n’a point laissé ces sortes d’enfans sans aucuns secours, & supposant, comme il est exposé, que le moyen dont il s’agit est propre à leur procurer le baptéme; cependant comme il s’agiroit, en autorisant la pratique proposée, de changer une regle universellement établie, le Conseil croit que celui qui consulte doit s’addresser à son evéque, & à qui il appartient de juger de l’utilité, & du danger du moyen proposé, & 108 comme, sous le bon plaisir de l’evéque, le Conseil estime qu’il faudroit recourir au Pape, qui a le droit d’expliquer les régles de l’eglise, & d’y déroger dans le cas, ou la loi ne sçauroit obliger, quelque sage & quelque utile que paroisse la maniére de baptiser dont il s’agit, le Conseil ne pourroit l’approver sans le concours de ces deux autorités.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

The usual method of making coffee in France among the better classes at this time was by means of improved De Belloy drip devices, double glass vacuum filters, pumping percolators (double circulation devices), the Russian egg-shaped pots, and the Viennese machines.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

permeation, pervasion; diffusion &c. (dispersion) 73. ubiety[obs3], ubiquity, ubiquitariness[obs3]; omnipresence.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

[5936] Nec dulces amores sperne puer, neque tu choreas ; these men are too distrustful and much to blame, to use such speeches, [5937] Parcite paucorum diffundere, crimen in omnes .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

“Informe y deposicion de Don Joseph Pellicer de Tovar, cronista mayor de Su Magestad, siendo presentado por testigo por parte del Conde Don Miguel de Noroña en la informacion que está cometida al Corregidor de Madrid, sobre el titulo de Conde de Gijon; Madrid, 1645.”
— from Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Spanish Language in the British Museum. Vol. 4 by Pascual de Gayangos

In the name of sweet charity, gay gauzy-winged butterflies of fashion harnessed themselves in ropes of roses, and dragged the car of benevolence; as painted papillons drew chariots of goddesses on ancient classic walls; so in the realm of social economy the ubiquitous law of correlation of industrial force—of conservation of energy—transmuted the arrested labor of the rich and idle into the fostering heat that stimulated the working poor.
— from At the Mercy of Tiberius by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

[Pedro da COSTA]; Sons of the Mountain Warriors (also known as Association of Timorese Heroes) or KOTA [Clementino dos Reis AMARAL]; Timor Democratic Union or UDT [Joao CARRASCALAO]; Timor Labor Party or PTT [Paulo Freitas DA SILVA]; Timorese Nationalist Party or PNT [Abilio ARAUJO] International organization participation: ACP, ARF, AsDB, FAO, G-77, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, MIGA, NAM, OPCW, PIF (observer), UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WHO Diplomatic representation in the US: chief of mission: Ambassador (vacant); Charge d'Affaires Constancio PINTO chancery: 4201 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008 telephone: 202 966-3202 FAX: 202 966-3205 consulate(s) general: New York Diplomatic representation from the US: chief of mission: Ambassador (vacant); Charge d'Affaires William Gary GRAY embassy: Avenida de Portugal, Praia dos Conqueiros, Dili mailing address: US Department of State, 8250 Dili Place, Washington, DC 20521-8250 telephone: (670) 332-4684 FAX: (670) 331-3206 Flag description: red, with a black isosceles triangle (based on the hoist side) superimposed on a slightly longer yellow arrowhead that extends to the center of the flag; there is a white star in the center of the black triangle Economy East Timor Economy - overview:
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Quare ita ego censeo: quum nefario consilio sceleratorum civium res publica in maxima pericula venerit, iique indicio T. Volturcii et legatorum Allobrogum convicti confessique sint caedem, incendia aliaque se foeda atque crudelia facinora in cives patriamque paravisse, de confessis sicuti de manifestis rerum capitalium more majorum supplicium sumendum.’
— from C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino by Sallust

The pigeon people duly chose Ambassadors, who work'd so well As soon the murderous rage to quell, And stanch the source of countless woes.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

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— from An Introductorie for to Lerne to Read, To Pronounce, and to Speke French Trewly by Giles Du Wés

In science that era was adorned with the names of Priestly, Jenner, Herschel, Montgolfier, Fulton, Whitney, Volta, Pestalozzi, Piazzi, Davy, Cuvier, Oersted, Stevenson, Humboldt, Lavoisier, Buffon, Linnaeus.
— from The History of Cuba, vol. 2 by Willis Fletcher Johnson

"Qui vous a pu plonger dans cette humeur chagrine, A-t-on par quelque edit réformé la cuisine?" BOILEAU.
— from Marriage by Susan Ferrier

An example of his whimsical mood and gay fortitude may be found in a menu he presents in a letter to Lévis— "Petits pâtés de cheval, à l'Espagnole.
— from Old Quebec: The Fortress of New France by Claude Glennon Bryan