Exemple: il serait absurde qu'un jeune homme qui aime Le Petit Prince de Saint-Exupéry ne soit pas encouragé à partager son amour et à l'illustrer par quelques extraits de cette oeuvre qui, soit dit en passant, est un beau plaidoyer pour le coeur contre les raisons de l'argent.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

LE RÉGULUS FRANÇAIS Tout le monde sait l'histoire de Régulus, ce Romain qui, pris par les Carthaginois, et envoyé à Rome, sur sa parole, pour proposer un échange de captifs, dissuada héroïquement le Sénat d'accepter les offres faites, et revint à Carthage où l'attendaient d' horribles supplices.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

La seule solution qui me semble plausible serait que les hébergeurs surveillent un peu plus le contenu des pages qu'ils hébergent.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

By a peculiar power, Love can make that seem life itself, which, as soon as the loved object returns, is nothing but a little canvas and dead colours.
— from Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix'd a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Héloïse

—Dice Ud. que estos bancos oficiales prestan al público para la construcción de casas de familia.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

[13] pronto para la cita, quick and ready to quote; with an apt quotation .
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

SYN: Fair, pretty, pleasant, lively, cheerful, shapely, buxom.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Este es también el sitio para el corral de aves domésticas y los pesebres para los caballitos
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

A little canary bird, the only pet poor Lingave could afford to keep, chirp'd merrily in its cage on the wall.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

IN THE MORTAR PUT PEPPER, LOVAGE, CARRAWAY, ORIGANY, CELERY SEED, LASER ROOT AND CRUSH THEM, MOISTEN WITH BROTH, ADD THE PIG’S OWN GRAVY AND RAISIN WINE TO TASTE.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

The facts and reasonings contained in the Reports on this subject, have been confirmed by the experience of the present Poor Law Commission; and although out-door relief has not yet been totally prohibited in any of the English unions, there can be no doubt that the intention of the Poor Law Amendment Act points eventually to the workhouse as the sole medium of relief, and requires that it should be so restricted as early as circumstances permitted.
— from A history of the Irish poor law, in connexion with the condition of the people by Nicholls, George, Sir

Therefore, in this case, if it be an old one, taking the A D current, very mild force , apply the uterine electrode, N. P., to the os uteri , and treat over the lower dorsal and upper lumbar vertebræ with P. P., long cord .
— from A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication by Daniel Clark

The coif was never, as some suppose, intended to hide the tonsure of priests practising law contrary to ecclesiastical prohibition.
— from Old and New London, Volume I A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury

The pageantry of his disillusion took shape in a world-old procession of Prophets, Athenians, Martyrs, Saints, Scientists, Don Juans, Jesuits, Puritans, Fausts, Poets, Pacifists; like costumed alumni at a college reunion they streamed before him as their dreams, personalities, and creeds had in turn thrown colored lights on his soul; each had tried to express the glory of life and the tremendous significance of man; each had boasted of synchronizing what had gone before into his own rickety generalities; each had depended after all on the set stage and the convention of the theatre, which is that man in his hunger for faith will feed his mind with the nearest and most convenient food.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

I doubt whether the palatiness, Princess Lubomirska, can come; she will find difficulty in leaving Warsaw at the present time.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 2, August, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

[206] In all, the missions amounted to thirty; and for their relative situations vide the curious map [this map is not yet available in this HTML text], the original of which was published in the work of Padre Pedro Lozano, C. de J., `Descripcion chorographica del terreno, rios, arboles y animales de las dilatadissimas provincias del Gran Chaco, Gualanba', etc. Cordoba, del Tucuman, en el Colegio de la Assumpcion, por Joseph Santos Balbas, 1733.
— from A Vanished Arcadia: Being Some Account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 by R. B. (Robert Bontine) Cunninghame Graham

The possession in this instance rested on an occupation justified not by previous invitation but at the most by the connivance of the authorities, and had continued in no case much beyond a generation; but the holders were not dispossessed except in consideration of a compensatory sum disbursed under the orders of the senate by the urban praetor Publius Lentulus (c. 589).(34) Less objectionable perhaps, but still not without hazard, was the arrangement by which the new allotments bore the character of heritable leaseholds and were inalienable.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

Syn. Cataplasma fermenti (B. P., Ph. L.), C. f. cerevisiæ , L. Prep.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson