The boy went down, and there sat Clever Elsie and the girl both weeping together.
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm
That in such condition little attention is paid to what is going on around us seems clear enough.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross
“She could dress my hair with infinite taste; she could trim a hat better than most milliners, and she could even make my dresses.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant
15 Ibi auctore Postumio Minucius cum hostibus signa confert, et, cum anceps proelium in multum diei processisset, tum Postumius integris legionibus defessam iam aciem hostium improviso invadit.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce
In Smyrna we picked up camel’s hair shawls and other dressy things from Persia; but in Palestine—ah, in Palestine—our splendid career ended.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
render true, prove true &c. adj.; substantiate &c. (evidence) 467.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
In the profound stillness of the morning-air the “click” sounded clear enough to have been heard across the glade, and much further.
— from The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" by Mayne Reid
Likewise, the same social classes existed as had always characterized western Europe; and these classes—the court, the nobles, the clergy, the bourgeoisie, the artisans, the peasants—continued to bear relations to each other which a hoary antiquity had sanctioned.
— from A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. by Carlton J. H. (Carlton Joseph Huntley) Hayes
she cried, eagerly.
— from The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure by Rex Beach
The square being set vertical by a spirit-level or plumb-line, and a waxed thread or wire stretched taut from the outer arm through the slit, cutting equal divisions on each, and passing through the centre of the slit, it is evident that a line of sight is obtained through the centre of metal and parallel to the axis of the bore.
— from Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. by United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Ordnance
I ( b ) Archimedis ego quaestor ignoratum ab Syracusanis, [cum esse omnino negarent,] saeptum undique et vestitum vepribus et dumetis, indagavi sepulcrum .
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce
SEE Chartier, Emile.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1966 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
She was away somewhere in the north, recovering, he gathered, from "Father" (of course, they took it in turns to recover from him), while Father wandered up and down the south coast, endeavoring, vainly, to recover from himself.
— from The Return of the Prodigal by May Sinclair
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