Más vale ser artista y deleitarse ante la belleza, 60 aunque sólo esté representada en las ninfas desnudas, que ser indiferente
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós
In one single ivory cell of the brain there are stored away things more marvellous and more terrible than even they have dreamed of, who, like the author of Le Rouge et le Noir , have sought to track the soul into its most secret places, and to make life confess its dearest sins.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde
Stendhal's best-known books are his two novels: La Chartreuse de Parme and Le Rouge et le Noir .
— from On Love by Stendhal
Les Races et les nationalités en Autriche-Hongrie.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess
(A noter que la version 'papier' adaptée de cette narration hypertextuelle restitue presque exactement le rythme et le nerf de l'écran.)"
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert
The motto, in that case, would run, “Expectata (lilia) non eludent.”
— from Books and Bookmen by Andrew Lang
" "Talking riddles; eh?" laughed Ned.
— from Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight; or, on the border for Uncle Sam by Victor Appleton
Mrs. Robert E. Lee ( née Custis) was an intimate of the girls of this family and a frequent visitor in the house.
— from Seaport in Virginia George Washington's Alexandria by Gay Montague Moore
Avarice en sa main tenoit Une borse qu'el reponnoit, Et la nooit si durement, 230 Que demorast moult longuement Ainçois qu'el en péust riens traire, Mès el n'avoit de ce que faire.
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) — Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems by Geoffrey Chaucer
One of my friends, to whom I had imparted my curiosity, sent me a book by M. Auguste Rey, entitled Le Naturaliste Bosc , and assured me that I would there find enlightenment on the mystery which intrigued me.
— from The Spell of the Heart of France: The Towns, Villages and Chateaus about Paris by André Hallays
—Ramadân ended last night, and it is probable my people and others from the coast will begin to travel after three days of feasting.
— from The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873 Continued By A Narrative Of His Last Moments And Sufferings, Obtained From His Faithful Servants Chuma And Susi by David Livingstone
Le rouge et le noir.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1959 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Rouge et le Noir/, he must be credited with having magnified her charms and presented her advantages and superiority to a much higher degree than had been done before.
— from Women in the Life of Balzac by Juanita Helm Floyd
At night, [Pg 291] Nietzsche wrote or Lanzky read to him aloud, often from some French book, such as the Letters of the Abbé Galiani, Stendhal's Le Rouge et le Noir, La Chartreuse, L'Armance.
— from The life of Friedrich Nietzsche by Daniel Halévy
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