Essentially the method finds all correspondences in words and word positions across the two languages and then builds up large tables of rules for what gets translated to what, and how it is phrased.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

We do not mark the gradual preparations thereto; we remember only one distinct period in which all the signs and symptoms burst and effervesced together;—Wellington boots, tail, stiffener, down on the upper lip, thoughts on razors, [538] reveries on young ladies, and a new kind of sense of poetry.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 63, No. 391, May, 1848 by Various

According to the statistics of modern cities the mass of middle-class and labouring-class people change their lodgings or tenements every two or three years; three years is even an unusually long time of residence.
— from Critical Studies by Ouida

The driver bade us look to our right hand.
— from Society in America, Volume 1 (of 2) by Harriet Martineau

And these benefits, even if predictable, do not usually lead to ownership rights.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

He declared he could not bring himself to the thought of leaving his bones in a strange land, but he never confessed what he felt to be the strongest tie of all, two unfinished lawsuits, the old record of Barrington v. Brazier, and a Privy Council case of Barrington and Lot Rammadahn Mohr against the India Company.
— from Barrington. Volume 1 (of 2) by Charles James Lever

Upon this Subject I am under little Temptation of rifling the Stores of the Learned: I don't know one that has treated of it, except the ingenious Author of the Essay on Virgil's Georgics , prefix'd to Mr. Dryden 's [Pg 188] Translation of them.
— from Lectures on Poetry Read in the Schools of Natural Philosophy at Oxford by Joseph Trapp

It rolled off, however, immediately, and I hastened to rectify my mistake, and after much care and adroitness, succeeded in poising the feature nicely in the centre of the face, in the hopes that it would adhere of its own accord to the spot, and proceeded with the operation; but, alas, no sooner had I begun to meddle with the upper lip, than off rolled the nose again, so I just let it be this time until I had completed the operation.
— from Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume II by M. Y. Halidom