The board consists of two rows of five or seven holes each, each row assigned to one of the two players, and a hole at either end, each assigned as a home base ( balay or balayan ) of one of the players.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
Suelta, suéltame esa mano, Let go, let go of my hand, que aun queda el último grano for the last grain still hangs en el reló de mi vida.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla
—¿Todo el territorio del Brasil se halla en esa región de bosques?
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
You might judge it too cold, too hard and unresponsive a support, for that; and I have seen his eye even repellent.
— from The Sea and the Jungle by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson
La Virgen de las Cuevas, and San Hugo en el refectorio will be found on either side of the choir, while the third of the series, Confrencia de San Bruno con Urban II.
— from The Story of Seville by Walter M. (Walter Matthew) Gallichan
Some went so far as to doubt if she had ever experienced religion, for all she was a professor.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Unconsciously the old sergeant had exactly expressed Roy’s own feelings; but the next minute all show of weakness and sentiment had passed away.
— from The Young Castellan: A Tale of the English Civil War by George Manville Fenn
And then came Stasy----" Her eyes encounter Rohritz's.
— from Erlach Court by Ossip Schubin
I value these reminiscences of his Yorkshire school, written long after, because I think them very curious; and they show how early Edward Ramsay had his eyes open to characteristic features of the people.
— from Reminiscences of Scottish Life & Character by Edward Bannerman Ramsay
She hoped to see at the festival the youth who had so strongly impressed her; and the moment she entered the rude structure, her eyes eagerly ranged round the assembly until they rested upon the person of her rescuer, who as eagerly returned her significant glance.
— from The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6 by Various
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