It was her favorite way of spending the hour of dusk; no one disturbed her, and she used to lie there on Beth's little red pillow, planning stories, dreaming dreams, or thinking tender thoughts of the sister who never seemed far away.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

Under this punishment people sometimes die; but they adopt it in order to eschew bloodshed; for their Bacsis say that it is an evil thing to shed man's blood].
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

An hermaphrodite, Page 130 at once both the active and the passive principle, she daily scaled the highest peak of the mountain to gather there the flowery quintessence of the sun and the moon.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

La buena fe les hacía considerar el Comité como un templo; su actitud era la de un testigo que espera la llegada del juez para prestar su declaración.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

yet, in living strains of flame, My muse, bewildered in her circlings wide, With names the vaunting lips of pride proclaim, Shall dare to blend the one , the purer name, Which love a treasure in my breast doth hide,— Must the wild lay my faithful harp can sing, Be like the hymns which mortals, kneeling, hear; To solemn harmonies attuned the string, As, music show'ring from his viewless wing, On heavenly airs some angel hovered near.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

the exercise of judicial power, PP, SkD. Der. : soken , the territory or precinct in which public privileges were exercised, SkD; sokne , PP; (Rotland)-sokene , (Rutland)shire, P.—AS. sóc , the exercise of judicial power; sócn , sócen , an enquiry; see Schmid.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Virtute me involvo probamque / Pauperiem sine dote quæro —I praise her (Fortune) while she stays with me; if she flaps her swift pinions, I resign all she has given me, and wrap myself up in my own virtue and pay my addresses to honest undowered poverty.
— 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.

Stellenmarkt job market Stellenvermittlung job centre Stellenwahl choice of employment Stellfläche für Kinderwagen pram park stellt die Ware zur Verfügung makes the goods available Stellungssuchender job seeker Stellungswechsel change of position Stellungswechsel; Wechsel der Arbeitsstelle change of employment stellvertretender Generaldirektor assistant general manager stellvertretender Vorsitzender vice-chairman Stellvertreter; Stellvertretung proxy Stempelmarke revenue stamp Stempelsteuer stamp duty Stempelsteuer; Stempelgebühr; Stempelabgabe stamp duty Stempeluhr time clock stenographieren; in Kurzschrift schreiben write in shorthand Stenotypistin typist Stentypistin shorthand typist Sterbegeld death benefit Sterbegeld funeral allowance Sterbegeld funeral benefit Sterblichkeit death rate Sterblichkeitstabelle mortality table
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Ambaŭ portis pezajn sakojn da terpomoj, kaj baldaŭ laciĝis, sed ne sciis kion fari.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

Nothing is worse than writing chords, the upper and lower parts of which are separated by wide, empty intervals, especially in forte passages; in piano passages such distribution may be possible.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

Then he congratulated M. de Guersaint, whose paternal pride savoured divine enjoyment.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Complete by Émile Zola

“Besides the intemperateness of the demand,” went on the Dominican, “besides the fact that it is in the nature of an infringement on our prerogatives—” Padre Sibyla dared not go on, but looked at Simoun.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

I can honestly say that up to the time of the Centennial it had never entered into my mind that the past in Philadelphia had a value for every Philadelphian and that it was every Philadelphian's duty to help preserve any record that might survive of it—that the State House, the old churches, the old streets where I took my daily walks were a possession Philadelphia should do its best not to part with—and I [Pg 221] was such a mere re-echo of Philadelphia ideas and prejudices that I know most Philadelphians were as ignorant and as heedless.
— from Our Philadelphia by Elizabeth Robins Pennell

In early life he had been page in the Court of Celle; and it was said that he and the pretty Princess Sophia Dorothea, who by this time was married to her cousin
— from Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by William Makepeace Thackeray

When her nest is {35} properly provisioned she deposits an egg in it, closes the hole with a neat plug of clay, and leaves the larva to quietly consume its half-dead companions.
— from An Elementary Manual of New Zealand Entomology Being an Introduction to the Study of Our Native Insects by G. V. (George Vernon) Hudson

Travanet, rufe de Bombelles, Marquise de, ii. 37 Trélat, Ulysse, v. 126, 141 Trémargat, Louis Anne Pierre Geslin, Comte de, i. 145-146, 152 Trémaudun, Nicolas Pierre Philippes, Seigneur de, i. 48 Trémaudun, Dame de, i. 48 Tremerello (see Mandricardo) Trémigon, Comte de, i. 21; vi. 127, 173 Trémoille (see La Trémoille) Trevelec, Abbé de, i. 108 Treves, Clement Wenceslaus Duke in Saxony, Archbishop-Elector of, ii. 4 Trévise, Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, Maréchal Duc de, iii. 50 - 51 , 57 , 120 , 124 , 155 ; v. 101 Triboulet, the Court fool, ii. 17 Trioson (see Girodet Trioson) Trivulzio, Signorina, iv.
— from The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. volume 3 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 3 by Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de