En las afueras de la puerta del Popolo [50-4] lo esperaba una silla de posta, a la cual le hicieron subir, y después de esto cerraron las portezuelas con una llave, que Radet entregó a un gendarme 20 de caballería.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
y los trapiches del pueblo de San Antonio de Tena, a tiempo que [1] ve las rocas de Chinchas y de Canoas coronadas por una selva de pinos y nogales, de robles y laureles.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
—Para ello, puede Ud. salir de Puerto Montt, que queda como
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
In one corner a newly imported German with an Orson-like head, thumb-ring, and the fragrance of many meerschaums still hovering about him, was hammering away upon some disputed point with a scientific Frenchman, whose national politeness was only equalled by his national volubility.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott
Une solution de piratage trouvée à un bout de la planète peut être instantanément mise
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert
[4] cuando pasaba por delante de una serie de personajes adustos, graves, que estaban sentados en hilera simétrica, en un rincón de la sala, fumando con desahogo, hablándose a hurtadillas [5] con monosílabos, y dirigiendo de tiempo en tiempo sus ojos desconfiados a la puerta.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
[120-1] en un sagrario de purísimo oro derretido!
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
In fact, almost all philosophers seem to be agreed that there is a real table: they almost all agree that, however much our sense-data—colour, shape, smoothness, etc.—may depend upon us, yet their occurrence is a sign of something existing independently of us, something differing, perhaps, completely from our sense-data, and yet to be regarded as causing those sense-data whenever we are in a suitable relation to the real table.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
LE DRAPEAU DU TAILLEUR Un tailleur étant tombé gravement malade eut un songe des plus bizarres .
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann
[Sir Reg EMPEY] United States Democratic Party [Howard DEAN]; Green Party; Libertarian Party [William (Bill) REDPATH]; Republican Party [Robert M. (Mike) DUNCAN]
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
The earlier Utopian Socialists did propose to do away with wages; in fact, they proposed to do away with money altogether, and invented various forms of "Labor Notes" as a means of giving equality of remuneration for given quantities of labor, and providing a medium for the exchange of wealth.
— from Socialism: A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles by John Spargo
Besides the discipline of character, these trials made the pleasant things with which they were mixed up seem doubly pleasant, the disagreeable parts of her life relished the agreeable wonderfully.
— from The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner
Le Vatican possède une statue de Pâris jugeant les déesses.
— from Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare
[1099] "Und ist ungezwyfelt, es sitzen im Bisthum Costanntz hundert und aber hundert parthyen, die vor Gott dem Herrn Eelüt sin und mit recht zusammen gewyst wurden, und doch umb sorg des penfals einander mit gepürlichen Rechten nit thüren fürnemmen."— Salis , op.
— from A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3 by George Elliott Howard
"Please be sure Mr Wise and I never look seriously in any direction unless something definite points us that way.
— from In the Onyx Lobby by Carolyn Wells
Meantime Sapor, king of Persia, was attacking Nisibis, the most Eastern city of the Roman empire, where a brave Catholic named James was Bishop, and encouraged the people to a most brave resistance, so that they held out for four months; and Sapor, thinking the city was under some divine protection, and finding that his army sickened in the hot marshes around it, gave up the siege at last.
— from Young Folks' History of Rome by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge
Therefore, the fact that Kingston’s footprints were found near the chair in which his uncle sat dead pointed directly to him as the murderer.
— from Minute Mysteries [Detectograms] by H. A. (Harold Austin) Ripley
His Majesty the King having decided that no attempt should be made to publish these papers in extenso , it was necessary to determine upon some definite principle of selection.
— from The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 1, 1837-1843 by Queen of Great Britain Victoria
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