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— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Certant inter se, palamque animosa contentio est: victa morte finit saepe vitam, spiritu prius deficiente quam captu.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

But to the rest of us who also have to live in it with as much harmony as we can, such persons are certainly elephants at large in the garden.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

La caridad se practica aquí como en los tiempos evangélicos; aquí no se conoce la envidia; aquí no se conocen las pasiones criminales, y si oye usted hablar de ladrones y asesinos, tenga por seguro que no son 111 hijos de esta noble tierra, o que pertenecen al número de los infelices pervertidos por las predicaciones demagógicas.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

The two long paddles cross each other just below the blades, which rear themselves aloft; the two short paddles also cross each other near their blades, but they are head downwards.
— from Little Folks (September 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

While Anne was not beautiful in any strictly defined sense of the word she possessed a certain evasive charm and distinction of appearance that left beholders with a pleasurable sense of satisfaction in that softly rounded girlhood of hers, with all its strongly felt potentialities.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

It is easily seen in the arguments of biologists that they conceive social progress as consisting essentially in an improvement of the stock to which individuals belong.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Sabbath, Pentecost; Advent, Christmas, Epiphany; Lent; Passion week, Holy week; Easter, Easter Sunday, Whitsuntide; agape, Ascension Day, Candlemas[obs3], Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, Holy Thursday; Lammas, Martinmas, Michaelmas; All SAint's DAy,
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

It is a sad tale, unfortunately for me very true, which some persons are cruel enough to consider very amusing.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

He made me look at the alms he had received in Orsara—bread, wine, cheese, sausages, preserves, and chocolate; every nook and cranny of his holy garment was full of provisions.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Prime Minister Roberto DANINO (since 28 July 2001) does not exercise executive power; this power is in the hands of the president elections: president elected by popular vote for a five-year term; special presidential and congressional elections held 8 April 2001, with runoff election held 3 June 2001; next to be held 9 April 2006 election results: President Alejandro TOLEDO Manrique elected president in runoff election; percent of vote - Alejandro TOLEDO Manrique 53.1%, Alan GARCIA 46.9% cabinet: Legislative branch: unicameral Congress of the Republic of Peru or Congresso de la Republica del Peru (120 seats; members are elected by popular vote to serve five-year terms) election results: percent of vote by party - Peru Posible 26.3%, APRA 19.7%, Unidad Nacional 13.8%, FIM 11.0%, others 29.2%; seats by party - Peru Posible 47, APRA 28, Unidad Nacional 17, FIM 11, others 17 elections: last held 8 April 2001 (next to be held 9 April 2006)
— from The 2002 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

She was the daughter of Ong Sum Ping, a Chinese envoy, and from her and Sultan Akhmed the Bruni sultans down to the present day, and for over twenty generations, trace their descent on the distaff side, for their daughter married the Arab Sherip Ali, who became Sultan in succession to his father-in-law, and they were the founders of the present dynasty.
— from A History of Sarawak under Its Two White Rajahs 1839-1908 by C. A. Bampfylde

Encouraged by the success of this publication, he subsequently prepared a complete edition of Catullus, which came forth at Leipsic in 1788.
— from History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Vol. II by John Colin Dunlop

But—I'll tell you a secret'—she paused and collected every eye and ear—' we've only just begun !
— from The Convert by Elizabeth Robins

We have seen that stimulus produces a certain excitatory change in living substances, and that the excitation produced sometimes expresses itself in a visible change of form, as seen in muscle; that in many other cases, however—as in nerve or retina—there is no visible alteration, but the disturbance produced by the stimulus exhibits itself in certain electrical changes, and that whereas the mechanical mode of response is limited in its application, this electrical form is universal.
— from Response in the Living and Non-Living by Jagadis Chandra Bose

Dorothy's heart leaped within her; but she preserved a calm exterior, and a sad smile expressed her disbelief in his seriousness.
— from The Vanity Girl by Compton MacKenzie

The whole family had been staunch Protestants and Conservatives ever since Burton & Sons, ship-owners, of London and Leghorn, had first set up in business, more than a century back.
— from The Gadfly by E. L. (Ethel Lillian) Voynich

Ystwyth, where stands a lovely town of the same name, which sprang up under the protection of a baronial castle, still proud and commanding even in its ruins, built by Strongbow the conqueror of the great western isle.
— from Wild Wales: The People, Language, & Scenery by George Borrow