A nation is the same people living in the same place.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Related Words : Alto precio ; recargado , heavily charged ( too high a price ), surcharged ; exorbitante ; subido ; comprar con pérdida , comprar con daño , to buy at a loss ; no valer lo que cuesta , to be worth less than the cost ; estar ( el precio ) por las nubes , a soaring price (literally, in the clouds ); costar un dineral , to cost a fortune ; costar un ojo de la cara , to be impossibly high-priced .
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Nor is she perhaps less imaginative than the majority of his heroines.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

Sweating was also a diversion practised by the bloods of the last century, who styled themselves Mohocks: these gentlemen lay in wait to surprise some person late in the night, when surrounding him, they with their swords pricked him in the posteriors, which obliged him to be constantly turning round; this they continued till they thought him sufficiently sweated.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

La qualité des auteurs sévèrement sélectionnés pour leur indiscutable talent et leur originalité, la sobriété des écrans, les corrections effectuées, la présentation professionnelle, tout est tourné vers la mise en valeur des textes proposés.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

In Japan, to solve the problem of reconciliation between the ancient traditions of the divine ancestors and the dogmas of the Indian cult, it was necessary that some master spirit, profoundly learned in the two Ways, of the Kami and of the Buddhas, should be bold, and also as it seems, crafty and unscrupulous.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

The former secured it for her bastard son, and also for her grandson, the infamous John XII., during whose pontificate, as Gibbon puts it, "the Lateran palace was turned in a school for prostitution, and his rapes of virgins and widows deterred the female pilgrims from visiting the tomb of St. Peter, lest, in the devout act, they should be violated by his successor."
— from Women of Early Christianity by Mitchell Carroll

There was only a little ripple over a stony bed now, with shallow pools lost in the deeper basins here and there.
— from Winning the Wilderness by Margaret Hill McCarter

Some subtile power lay in the coarse, distorted body, in the pleading child's face, to rouse, wherever they went, the same curious, kindly smile.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

But we read with some surprise that the worthy grandson of Marozia lived in public adultery with the matrons of Rome; that the Lateran palace was turned into a place for prostitution, and that his rapes of virgins and of widows had deterred the female pilgrims from visiting the tomb of St. Peter, lest, in the devout act, they should be violated by his successor,” iii.
— from Notes on the New Testament, Explanatory and Practical: Revelation by Albert Barnes

We all have our fancies and ideas as to what is most pleasant and agreeable, and like many things in this world, the key of the situation probably lies in the identity of the lady who hunts.
— from Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Volume 85 January to June, 1906 by Various

Yet other puppies scrambled at a pan of milk close by her feet, while at a distance old Hec, too dignified to engage in such procedures, lay in the shade and gazed at her with reproachful eyes.
— from The Law of the Land Of Miss Lady, Whom It Involved in Mystery, and of John Eddring, Gentleman of the South, Who Read Its Deeper Meaning: A Novel by Emerson Hough

His nod implied that there was already a secret understanding between them, and as he passed on Dennis saw possibilities looming in the future.
— from With Haig on the Somme by D. H. Parry