A l'heure de la mondialisation et du commerce électronique, les sociétés ont un marché potentiel sur plusieurs pays à la fois.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

And so on until morning—when they would go out to another day of toil, a little weaker, a little nearer to the time when it would be their turn to be shaken from the tree.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

At ten o'clock the same night I started off upon my journey.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

I’ll tell thee, Fainall, she once used me with that insolence that in revenge I took her to pieces, sifted her, and separated her failings: I studied ’em and got ’em by rote.
— from The Way of the World by William Congreve

Then home to dinner, and in the afternoon some of us met again upon something relating to the victualling, and thence to my writing of letters late, and making my Alphabet to my new Navy book very pretty.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

—So on until morning.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

it is done; and pray God it may hold, though some of us must surely go to the pot, for all must be flung up to them, or nothing will be done.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Fame to be sweet must resound in the ears of those we love, in the atmosphere of our home or of the land that will guard our ashes; we wish that fame should hover over our tomb to warm with its breath the chill of death, so that we may not be completely reduced to nothingness, that something of us may survive.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

There might be some innocent women and children killed," and made replies of that kind to justify himself in not allowing the firing, which the staff officers standing by—I think about four in number were present besides the general—they were of opinion it ought to be done, and still he would not allow it, and several of us made some remarks on the subject—several of the staff officers.
— from Report of the Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July, 1877 Read in the Senate and House of Representatives May 23, 1878 by 1877 Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July

Combine the beaten egg yolks and milk and add to the flour mixture, stirring only until mixed.
— from Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking by Unknown

And as we issued forth of the wood yonder we saw the roof filled with women, of whom one at sight of us waved a handkercher as if to say 'Haste! haste!' Coming to the water's edge, and finding no craft to ferry us across, we swam our horses, and some of us mounted the wall by ladders we saw hooked there for our conveniency, and so fell upon the pack of howling Irishmen in the courtyard and about the door.
— from A Gentleman-at-Arms: Being Passages in the Life of Sir Christopher Rudd, Knight by Herbert Strang

The president also told her, that he could not allow us to hold our meetings, because we were not in peace; that France was proposing to march upon us, &c. &c. Since the last persecution, we enjoy, by the grace of God, the means of praying, when several of us meet together.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

And such a position as this can be the source of untold money.” Nor was it a small inducement to him to think that the side he adopted was adverse to Kate.
— from Luttrell Of Arran by Charles James Lever

Some of us may, perhaps, have envied him while he lived, as an eminently successful man.
— from The American Jew as Patriot, Soldier and Citizen by Simon Wolf

It was now three years since I had set out upon my second voyage in the "Golden Seahorse", compelled to this course by reason of the incompatibility of temper which existed between my wife and me, making a happy union between us impossible.
— from Adventures in Southern Seas: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by George Forbes

A rapid succession of unstable ministries, which the group system in French parliamentary politics encouraged, militated against sound and continuous administration; and in April 1914 a series of revelations in the Senate had thrown an unpleasant light upon the efficiency of the army organization.
— from A Short History of the Great War by A. F. (Albert Frederick) Pollard

And as they ate and drank, Frau Fahler had appeared to add her welcome to her husband’s, and a little later the Fraülein, with rosy cheeks fresh from slumber and wearing the most becoming of negligées, had enthusiastically thrown her arms about Grey’s 279 neck and mingled tears of joy with her smiles over “Uncle Max’s” deliverance.
— from A Prince to Order by Charles Stokes Wayne