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Prices ud run down
Prices 'ud run down like a jack, and I should never get my arrears, not if I sold all the fellows up.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

pursued Utterson ruthlessly disregarding
“You know I never approved of it,” pursued Utterson, ruthlessly disregarding the fresh topic.
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

préserver une rémunération des
Dans ce contexte, pour préserver une rémunération des auteurs et des éditeurs, il me semble qu'une des voies envisageables repose sur une baisse très forte des prix unitaires en audio et vidéo.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

pédagogiques un renforcement de
Ceci passe, entre autres, par la création d'intranets pédagogiques, un renforcement de la formation en bureautique communicante pour les étudiants, les enseignants et le personnel administratif.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Page un repertorio de
Fundador de The On-Line Books Page, un repertorio de libros en línea disponibles gratuitamente Jacques Pataillot
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Page un repertorio de
[ES] John Mark Ockerbloom (Pennsylvania) #Fundador de The On-Line Books Page, un repertorio de libros en línea disponibles gratuitamente The On-Line Books Page cataloga más de 12.000 libros en inglés disponibles gratuitamente en la
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

PERSAN Un roi de
PERSAN Un roi de Perse, qui a été surnommé le Juste, et qui a mérité ce glorieux surnom, voulut, un jour qu'il était
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

pursued Utterson ruthlessly disregarding
"You know I never approved of it," pursued Utterson, ruthlessly disregarding the fresh topic.
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

promptu ut res disputatione
IV-V; de Off. III, 117 6 Quae quamquam ita sunt in promptu, ut res disputatione non egeat, tamen sunt a nobis alio loco disputata.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

pile up riches don
Then, they whose only ambition is to pile up riches, don’t want to believe that men can possess anything better than that which they have themselves; therefore, they use every means in their power to so buffet the lovers of literature that they will seem in their proper place--below the moneybags.”
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

picked up Richard Doble
As soon as day dawned they embarked; the pinnaces ran before the wind, picked up Richard Doble in his frigate, and before noon arrived safely at Port Diego.
— from With Drake on the Spanish Main by Herbert Strang

places undergoing rapid decomposition
The latter of these rocks is in many places undergoing rapid decomposition, in consequence of which large masses of the Hornblende rock have fallen in various directions, and given a singular character of picturesque rudeness to the scene: this is remarkably striking in the group of rocks which constitute Godrevy Island.
— from A Guide to the Mount's Bay and the Land's End Comprehending the topography, botany, agriculture, fisheries, antiquities, mining, mineralogy and geology of West Cornwall by John Ayrton Paris

pour un roi de
Dupé deux fois, il le fut encore par la suite pour un roi de Tunis qu'on lui avoit représenté comme disposé à se faire baptiser.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III by Richard Hakluyt

Powisland under Roger de
“I’d bet a trifle,” said I to myself, as I walked away, “that this poor creature is the descendant of some desperate Norman Tibault who helped to conquer Powisland under Roger de Montgomery or Earl Baldwin.
— from Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery by George Borrow

par une réunion de
[Pg 499] constitué par une réunion de députés qui s'était formée immédiatement après la publication des ordonnances.
— from My Memoirs, Vol. IV, 1830 to 1831 by Alexandre Dumas

piece uv road down
Lovin' hands smoothed the wrinkled forehead 'nd breshed back the long, scant, white hair, but the eyes of the dyin' man wuz sot upon that piece uv road down which the cyclopeedy man allus come.
— from A Little Book of Profitable Tales by Eugene Field

passed under revolving discs
If the paper is to be ruled for writing purposes, it is then taken to the ruling machines, where it is passed under revolving discs or pens, set at regular intervals.
— from A Book of Exposition by Homer Heath Nugent

parts Un Reve d
The task thus begun by M. Louet was subsequently completed by M. Paul Gaulot, in 1889, under the title, "La Verite sur l'Expedition du Mexique, d'apres les Documents Inedits d'Ernest Louet, Payeur-en-Chef du Corps Expeditionnaire," and divided into three parts: "Un Reve d'Empire," "L'Empire de Maximilien," and "Fin d'Empire."
— from Maximilian in Mexico: A Woman's Reminiscences of the French Intervention 1862-1867 by Sara Yorke Stevenson


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