"Esté usted sin cuidado respecto a mi seguridad personal.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós
With their introduction into the United States certain revisions and modifications, such as the Goddard Revision, the Terman Revision, the Yerkes-Bridges Point Scale, were made in the interests of standardization.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess
Or feat of arms befell: The Scots can rein a mettled steed, And love to couch a spear; St. George!
— from Marmion: A Tale Of Flodden Field by Walter Scott
Nathalie, who vainly strove at times to be cynical, made some careless remark, and Miss Stuart listened wonderingly to a gentle remonstrance which Eleanor administered in accents of earnestness.
— from A Colony of Girls by Kate Livingston Willard
Sallust might have said, ceteris (rebus) artum modum statuisse .
— from C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino by Sallust
she cried reproachfully, "an' me so tired and homesick and all."
— from Master and Maid by L. Allen (Lizzie Allen) Harker
In this part of his work, the author of the Periplus, mentions and describes the annual voyage between the coast of Africa and India: after enumerating the articles imported from the latter country, which consisted chiefly of corn, rice, butter; oil of Sesanum; cotton, raw and manufactured sashes; and honey from the cane, called sugar; he adds, that "many vessels are employed in this commerce, expressly for the importation of these articles, and others, which have a more distant destination, sell part of their cargoes on this coast, and take in the produce in return."
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson by William Stevenson
Because of Alfred, he could put nothing into words—because he must be dumb she could read a more satisfying conversation in his face.
— from The Happy Foreigner by Enid Bagnold
Never had the suum cuique required a more stringent, philosophical application.
— from Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 by De Gurowski, Adam G., count
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