Several sites exhibiting extensive ruins near the banks of the Akhtuba have been identified with Sarai; two in particular.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa
He reached his door in much satisfaction that his errand was done: he opened it, and to his short-sighted eyes everything remained as he had left it, except that the fire sent out a welcome increase of heat.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot
In this present case, therefore, I may employ simple conversion, and say: “Every ens realissimum is a necessary being.”
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
Entonces se aumenta considerablemente el volumen de las aguas que se despeñan por el Salto; entonces el río es una gran manga del diluvio , como decía Chateaubriand hablando del Niágara; entonces es cuando los amantes de la naturaleza deben ver el Salto; entonces es cuando yo lo he visto.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
Sentábase el erudito reposadamente en el sillón de su mesa de estudio, 15 la cual aparecía cubierta por diversas suertes de papeles, conteniendo notas, apuntes y referencias, sin que el más pequeño desorden las confundiese, a pesar de su mucha diversidad y abundancia.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós
But say thou wer't possess'd of David's Throne By free consent of all, none opposite, Samaritan or Jew; how could'st thou hope Long to enjoy it quiet and secure, 360 Between two such enclosing enemies Roman and Parthian?
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton
suscepit (ut decuit) tantum Heroa, duxitque Londonias, et per multos dies exhibuit gloriose, pro expensis hospitii sui solvens, et eum respiciens tanto fastigio donativis.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon
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— from The Online World by Odd De Presno
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— from A Statistical Inquiry Into the Nature and Treatment of Epilepsy by Alexander Hughes Bennett
It was not so hard or lasting as the ordinary enamel of glass or vitrified paste, some examples of which may be seen on several early ecclesiastical remains.
— from The Lake Dwellings of Ireland Or ancient lacustrine habitations of Erin, commonly called crannogs. by W. G. (William Gregory) Wood-Martin
Son Excellence Eugene Rougon.
— from A Zola Dictionary; the Characters of the Rougon-Macquart Novels of Emile Zola; by J. G Patterson
Yes; that is the name,” she exclaimed, eagerly recognising it.
— from John Ames, Native Commissioner: A Romance of the Matabele Rising by Bertram Mitford
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— from The Clue by Carolyn Wells
1 Salvadoran colon (C) = 100 centavos *El Salvador, Economy Exchange rates: Salvadoran colones (C) per US$1 - 8.7600 (January 1993), 9.1700 (1992), 8.0300 (1991), fixed rate of 5.000 (1986-1989)
— from The 1993 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
año de 1601, prorogando la Cruzada, á instancias de su embajador en Roma; Don Antonio [Fernandez de Cordoba], duque de Sessa.”
— from Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Spanish Language in the British Museum. Vol. 4 by Pascual de Gayangos
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— from Julia France and Her Times: A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
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