Il y avait deux sortes de corvées : les réelles et les personnelles, etc.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

à Rome et la pointe partout —The order of the Jesuits is a sword, the handle of which is at Rome and the point everywhere.
— 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.

Les passions sont les vents qui font aller notre 15 vaisseau, et la raison est le pilote qui le conduit; le vaisseau n'irait point sans les vents, et se perdrait sans le pilote —The passions are the winds which propel our vessel; our reason is the pilot that steers her; without winds the vessel would not move; without pilot she would be lost.
— 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.

Even when the owner has read every last page of his books it is only in rare instances that he has full indexes to all of them, either in his mind or on paper, so as to make available the vast number of varied subjects touched upon or treated in volumes whose titles would never suggest such topics.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

The child’s voice responded:— “Et lux perpetua luceat ei.”
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Agrabla juna knabo, la plej juna el la servistoj, tiam restis ekster la pordo.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

Esta región es la parte mas poblada del país.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

The whole tenor of his thoughts instantaneously changed; the battle seemed the memory of a remote event long past.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

F. M. Livingston London, Clowes Pioneering and Mapmaking for Boy Scouts C. R. Enock London, Pearson Scouting for Boys Lieut.-Gen.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

Cuando ambos beligerantes quedaban ya rendidos de la refriega, empezaba la parte galante de la fiesta.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

The Open-hand knot is made by tying an over-hand knot with two rope ends lying parallel.
— from The Use of Ropes and Tackle by W. A. (William Armour) Pearl

292 Romulus, et Liber pater, et cum Castore Pollux, 5 Post ingentia fata, Deorum in templa recepti, Dum terras hominumque colunt genus, aspera bella Conponunt, agros adsignant, oppida condunt; Ploravere suis non respondere favorem Speratum meritis.
— from The Works of Richard Hurd, Volume 1 (of 8) by Richard Hurd

Per te poeta fui, per te cristiano: ma perche' veggi mei cio` ch'io disegno, a colorare stendero` la mano: Gia` era 'l mondo tutto quanto pregno de la vera credenza, seminata per li messaggi de l'etterno regno; e la parola tua sopra toccata si consonava a' nuovi predicanti; ond'io a visitarli presi usata.
— from La Divina Commedia di Dante: Complete by Dante Alighieri

En vain la duchesse en rougit, Et la princesse en gronde, Chacun sait que Vénus naquit De l’ecume de l’onde.
— from Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry With Minute Details of Her Entire Career as Favorite of Louis XV by Lamothe-Langon, Etienne-Léon, baron de

[2] The chief of which are: "La Vie Monastique dans l'Eglise Orientale," 1855; "La Suisse Allemande," 1856; "Les Héros de la Roumanie;" "Les Roumains et la Papauté" (in Italian); "Excursions en Roumélie et en Morée," 1863; "Les Femmes de l'Orient," 1858; "Les Femmes d'Occident;" "Les Femmes, par une Femme," 1865.
— from Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams

Note 6214 ( return ) [ D'Haussonville, "L'Église romaine et le premier Empire," II.,257, 266.
— from The Modern Regime, Volume 2 by Hippolyte Taine

Je prie Dieu que celle dans laquelle nous entrons nous permette de voir s'accomplir l'œuvre de la pacification, avec tous ses bienfaits pour le repos et le progrès du monde.
— from The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 3, 1854-1861 by Queen of Great Britain Victoria

Fernando, Arzobispo de Santo Domingo, á S. M.: sobre la revolucion en la parte francesa de la Isla y sus consecuencias; Santiago, y Diziembre de 1791” f. 255 17.
— from Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Spanish Language in the British Museum. Vol. 4 by Pascual de Gayangos

"Git up and git!" and all made a rapid exit, leaving poor Diggs still perched on the rafters, bewildered and confused.
— from Brother Against Brother; or, The Tompkins Mystery. A Story of the Great American Rebellion. by John R. (John Roy) Musick