Par exemple, les gestes ont un sens, les mouvements faciaux ont un sens, et ceci varie en fonction des sociétés.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

As for my subsequent experiences at the general rehearsal of Tristan und Isolde, this took place under such exceptional circumstances, and its effect upon me differed so fundamentally from that produced by the first performance of Rienzi, that no comparison can possibly be drawn between the two.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

They are found in most parts of the United States, entering Canada only in the Ontario peninsula and southern Saskatchewan.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

a quelle fiere isnelle: Chiron prese uno strale, e con la cocca fece la barba in dietro a le mascelle.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Un soldado en cada hijo te dió, Un soldado en cada hijo te dió.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

Unless some exceptional circumstance has arisen (and such exceptions will presently be found detailed at length), all the quarterings are of equal heraldic value, and must be the same size when displayed.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

This was so absurd a sight that the people ran out in crowds to laugh at it, and chaffed the Father and Son unmercifully, some even calling them lunatics.
— from Aesop's Fables; a new translation by Aesop

qui, ut scriptum legimus, cum uxorem Theben admodum diligeret, tamen ad eam ex epulis in cubiculum veniens barbarum, et eum quidem, ut scriptum est, compunctum notis Thraeciis, destricto gladio iubebat anteire praemittebatque de stipatoribus suis, qui scrutarentur arculas muliebres et, ne quod in vestimentis telum occultaretur, exquirerent.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Dissolutio foederis in corpore, ut sanitas est consummatio.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The house was inhabited by three soldiers; sturdy, good-humored fellows, who immediately spread a mat in the shade for us and made us some excellent coffee.
— from The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain by Bayard Taylor

“Where bells make Catholic the trembling air.” Royal prince though he was, Fernando had never slept under such embroidered coverlets, nor seen such hangings of gold and silver, such carving and fretwork, as met his waking eyes in the dawn of the new day.
— from The Constant Prince by Christabel R. (Christabel Rose) Coleridge

224 note [2] Treaty of Washington (1842) i. 4 , 9 Tremenheere, H.S., The Constitution of the United States , etc., cited, ii.
— from Great Britain and the American Civil War by Ephraim Douglass Adams

'You will pardon me, gentlemen,' Harland said, as he stepped to the front; 'but I believe I have the right under such extraordinary circumstances to obtrude myself here.'
— from The Four Canadian Highwaymen; Or, The Robbers of Markham Swamp by J. E. (Joseph Edmund) Collins

It was under such enviable conditions that the young daughters of a poor Roman baron grew up to girlhood—the pets of the Queen and the Court, the playfellows of the King, and the acknowledged heiresses of their uncle's millions; and of them all, not one had a keener eye to the future than Olympe of the long face,
— from Love affairs of the Courts of Europe by Thornton Hall

“Uncle stands every cent of it!”
— from The Outdoor Chums in the Big Woods; Or, Rival Hunters of Lumber Run by Quincy Allen

Member, United States Employees' Compensation Commission, 1945-1946.
— from Arkansas Governors and United States Senators by John L. (John Lewis) Ferguson

I didn’t learn that, I think, until someone else called me to watch TV, that she had been on TV.
— from Warren Commission (13 of 26): Hearings Vol. XIII (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission