The thought that by this time he might quite easily have completed the preliminary pourparlers and be deep in an informal discussion of honeymoon plans was very pleasant to me.
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

Informal dinner dresses are worn in the boxes at the opera on ordinary nights, such as when no especially great star is to sing, and when one is not going on to a ball afterward, but a ball dress is never inappropriate, especially without head-dress.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

[It was built during the 18th year of the reign of the third Ming Emperor Yung Loh (1403-1425); it was entirely restored during the 18th year of K'ien Lung; it was struck by lightning and burnt down in 1889; it is being re
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

For now the Fates prepar’d their sharpen’d shears; And lifted high the flaming sword appears, Which, full descending with a frightful sway, Thro’ shield and corslet forc’d th’ impetuous way, And buried deep in his fair bosom lay.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

If you attempt it on a blue day in June, you will know why men do not look straight at their ideals.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

His existence involves the highest purpose to which, 361 as far as is in his power, he can subject the whole of nature; contrary to which at least he cannot regard himself as subject to any influence of nature.—If now things of the world, as beings dependent in their existence, need a supreme cause acting according to purposes, man is the final purpose of creation; since without him the chain of mutually subordinated purposes would not be complete as regards its ground.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

Many ladies are very ceremonious about waiting for a guest, and by delay in your room, or inattention to the time, when you are out, you will keep the whole family waiting.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

Each translation is accompanied by a brief discussion in which its chief bearing on the Bible is pointed out.
— from Archæology and the Bible by George A. (George Aaron) Barton

She was very decidedly of “a certain age,” but dressed in the extreme of juvenility, with flowers and ribbons of all the colors of the rainbow.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various

The place was designated by the old French traders and settlers as "Bataille des Illinois."
— from The Land of the Miamis An Account of the Struggle to Secure Possession of the North-West from the End of the Revolution until 1812 by Elmore Barce

It was a black day in our lives when Clarissa and me met up with you, Raoul de Marion."
— from Shaman by Robert Shea

4. How do serges and broadcloths differ in appearance?
— from Clothing and Health: An Elementary Textbook of Home Making by Anna M. (Anna Maria) Cooley

When there is thunder and darkness in the sky of the Cherokees, it shall thunder and be dark in the sky of the Muscogulgee sojourner among them, and with whomsoever the Cherokees have buried the hatchet of war, and made a league of amity, with that tribe or people shall the Muscogulgee keep terms of peace."
— from Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 by James Athearn Jones

Again—“If you be puzzled what to do with your son, if he be a born dunce, if reading and writing be all the accomplishments he can acquire, if he be horribly ignorant and depraved, if he be indolent and an incorrigible liar, lost to all shame and decency, and incurably dishonest, make a newspaper editor of him.
— from Diary in America, Series Two by Frederick Marryat

Away they all went to the cottage, and there upon the floor was the dead body, with an axe buried deep in the skull,—so deep that only the thick part of the iron was outside.
— from Confessions Of Con Cregan, the Irish Gil Blas by Charles James Lever

23 February 1996 (next to be held NA March 1999) election results: percent of vote by party-NA; seats by party-NPP 9, independents 11 Judicial branch: Supreme Court of New Zealand; High Court of Niue Political parties and leaders: Niue People's Action Party (NPP), Young VIVIAN International organization participation: ESCAP (associate), Intelsat (nonsignatory user), Sparteca, SPC, SPF, UNESCO, WHO Diplomatic representation in the US: none (self-governing territory in free association with New Zealand) Diplomatic representation from the US: none (self-governing territory in free association with New Zealand) Flag description: yellow with the flag of the UK in the upper hoist-side quadrant; the flag of the UK bears five yellow five-pointed stars-a large one on a blue disk in the center and a smaller one on each arm of the bold red cross @Niue:Economy Economy-overview: The economy is heavily dependent on aid from New Zealand and remittances as Niue has no indigenous export product.
— from The 1998 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency