mundo m world; (big) trunk; todo el—— everybody.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós
Look back: Nothing to us was all fore-passed eld Of time the eternal, ere we had a birth.
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus
He never could have loved me, or he would not have resigned me so willingly, and he would not go on talking to everybody else so cheerfully as he does—laughing and jesting with Lord Lowborough and my uncle, teasing Milicent Hargrave, and flirting with Annabella Wilmot—as if nothing were on his mind.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
The Dutch language, nearest in structure and vocabulary to the English, even richer in the descriptive energy of its terms, and saturated withal with Christian truth, was studied by eager young men.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis
ti pot' oun en men tê gastri nyktos || 165 holês pollakis meinanta ton arton eti phylattesthai boulontai tas archaias diasôzonta poiotêtas, epeidan d' hapax empesê Pg 256 Greek text tois enterois, euthys gignesthai kopron?
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen
He was there to exchange experiences with others with disabilities.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno
In this full felicity, tears welled up to their eyes every instant.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
In consequence of his losses during the war and his subsequent disability, the Thomas properties, of which the Cherokee lands were technically a part, had become involved, so that the entire estate had passed into the hands of creditors, the most important of whom, William Johnston, had obtained sheriff’s deeds in 1869 for all of these Indian lands under three several judgments against Thomas, aggregating $33,887.11.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney
Mrs. Kindhart on the other hand, talks to everyone, everywhere and always.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post
To this end everything centres in Congress, whose powers are commensurate with the occasion.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 13 (of 20) by Charles Sumner
As she stood by the donkey's side, her head barely reached to his ears; but he entered very cleverly into the spirit of the farce of being kept in place by such a mite, and to that end employed her busily in feeding him with handfuls of grass.
— from Glimpses of Three Coasts by Helen Hunt Jackson
In consequence of this, these five were left together to entertain each other, until the arrival of the whole party enabled them to arrange their plans for the day's amusement.
— from The Younger Sister: A Novel, Volumes 1-3 by Mrs. (Catherine-Anne Austen) Hubback
"Ay, bud ah s'd think 'e 'll 'a drunken it all by this time," Emma exclaimed, with not unkindly sarcasm.
— from The Post-Girl by Edward Charles Booth
His enumeration is not free from difficulties, both in regard to the epithets employed and the specification of the tribes.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Psalms, Vol. 2 Psalms XXXIX.-LXXXIX. by Alexander Maclaren
The transition, easy enough when years have brought it about, is like an illness in youth.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac
In general, all whole body counters must have (1) a mechanism that reacts to the energy emitted by some kinds of disintegrating, or radioactive, atoms; (2) a device that displays or records these reactions; and (3) adequate shielding to exclude unwanted rays from other sources.
— from Whole Body Counters by F. W. (Frederick W.) Lengemann
The business had been running well up to that time, even extraordinarily well; but now it was in danger of collapsing all of a sudden.
— from My Life and My Efforts by Karl May
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