Dictionaries, manuals, grammars, study guides and topic notes, classical authors and the entire book trade in de Viris, Quintus-Curtius, Sallust, and Livy peacefully crumbled to dust on the shelves of...
Después del éxito parecía natural que se apoderase de él el sentimiento de tristeza que suele seguir a los deseos satisfechos.
Could it have passed away in electric sheets, as is sometimes the case with regard to the typhoons of the Indian Ocean?
Buscaba obtener un efecto de las olas rompiendo en los escollos, y es posible que su bola, como la esponja de no sé qué pintor de la antigüedad, tirada contra su cuadro, habrá producido el efecto que...
Besides, said Kennedy, the time when industry gets a grip of everything and uses it to its own advantage may not be particularly amusing. If men go on inventing machinery they'll end up by being swall...
Ben Zoof, whose ideas of discipline were extremely rigid, at once suggested that the colony should be put under the surveillance of the police, that the cardinal points should be placed under restrain...
As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.
Are we rising again? No. On the contrary. Are we descending? Worse than that, captain! we are falling! For Heaven's sake heave out the ballast! There! the last sack is empty! Does the balloon rise? No...
An indisputable event, my gallant Ned. Accordingly, people have proposed naming this devil fish Bouguer's Squid.And how long was it? the Canadian asked. Didn't it measure about six metres? said Consei...
After Simla, I must mention Darjeeling, with its pretty white houses, overlooked by Mount Kinchinjinga, 312 miles to the north of Calcutta, 6,900 feet above the level of the sea, about the eighty-sixt...
Cred, domnule judecător, că tinerii ăștia nu sunt în toate mințile.- Așa e, bătrână Kate, așa e, aprobă John Proth, luându-și din nou pașnica stropitoare. Dar ce-i de mirare? Oare cei care se căsătore...
I don't think a being endowed with will-power should ever despair,as long as his hear beats.
No tardaron en rivalizar dignamente en el arte de la guerra con sus colegas del antiguo continente, alcanzando victorias, lo mismo que éstos, a fuerza de prodigar balas, millones y hombres. 1.
He knew that in this world account must be taken of friction, and that friction retards, he never rubbed against anybody. As
Era de aquellos «que no vuelven nunca la espalda ni a un amigo ni a un enemigo».
You have plenty of time; it's only twelve o'clock.Passepartout pulled out his big watch. Twelve! he exclaimed; why, it's only eight minutes before ten.Your watch is slow.My watch? A family watch, mons...
While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert, Henry, that as long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow him...
When he chose to take a walk it was with a regular step in the entrance hall with its mosaic flooring, or in the circular gallery with its dome supported by twenty red porphyry Ionic columns, and illu...
What do you want? he said to Passe-partout, whom he took for a native. Do you need a servant, sir? asked Passe-partout. A servant! echoed the Barnum, as he stroked his beard; I have two, obedient and...
Well, old Barbicane, they might have cut me into slices, from my feet upwards, before I could have worked out that problem.''Because you don't know algebra,' replied