Las naranjas de Bahía en el Brasil, las del Paraguay y las de Corrientes y la Rioja en la Argentina son justamente famosas.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
It was piecework, and she was apt to have a family to keep alive; and stern and ruthless economic laws had arranged it that she could only do this by working just as she did, with all her soul upon her work, and with never an instant for a glance at the well-dressed ladies and gentlemen who came to stare at her, as at some wild beast in a menagerie
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Note 169 ( return ) [ Eusebius, l. vi. c. 43.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon
I presume that lowness here means that the several parts of the organisation have been but little specialised for particular functions; and as long as the same part has to perform diversified work, we can perhaps see why it should remain variable, that is, why natural selection should not have preserved or rejected each little deviation of form so carefully as when the part has to serve for some one special purpose.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin
La collection est publiée sous l'égide FTR&D. Elle réunit des ouvrages rédigés en langue française par des spécialistes de centres de recherches, de l'université et de l'industrie des télécommunications.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert
The light rendered every limb and joint discernible, and Duncan turned away in horror when he saw they were writhing in irrepressible agony.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper
Rubriques à Bac est une branche des activités du GRIMM (Groupe de recherche et d'information sur le multimédia), un groupement associatif de personnes physiques et morales qui pratiquent la recherche et l'information sur l'informatique, le multimédia et
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert
[118] 'Leur conformation est robuste et leur permet de supporter des travaux et des fatigues de toute sorte.'
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 1, Wild Tribes The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 1 by Hubert Howe Bancroft
n'y a plus en Europe que deux puissances réelles, la Révolution et la Russie.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 404, June, 1849 by Various
Of course that put an end to all sentiment, and Rose emerged laughing from Dr. Alec's bosom, with the mark of a waistcoat button nicely imprinted on her left cheek.
— from Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott
plain muslin dress, walking length, [Pg 172] made high in front and forms a shirt collar, richly embroidered; long sleeves, also embroidered round the wrists and at the bottom of the dress; a pelisse opera coat without any seam in back, composed of orange blossom tinged with brown, made of Angola cloth or sarsnet, trimmed with rich Chincheally fur, tipped with gold.
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, February 1904, No. 159. by Various
[Pg 17] of the state, of the shifting social position of each person, the determiner of the diagram of his active, relatively effective life.
— from Social Comptabilism The Cheque and Clearing Service in the Austrian Postal Savings Bank. Proposed Law laid before the Chamber of Representatives of Belgium by Hector Denis
I am reading every little while about some girl who does it.
— from The Girl Scout's Triumph; or, Rosanna's Sacrifice by Katherine Keene Galt
Le rouge et le noir.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1959 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Yet she knew that somewhere deep behind that rough exterior lay a finer sensitiveness, a gentleness of feeling, and a sympathy that had impelled him to a deed of unconscious chivalry of which no man need be ashamed.
— from The Gun-Brand by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx
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