2. Change into a direct statement each clause that is in the indirect discourse.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

ANT: Determination, settlement, execution, continuance, uninterruption, revival, determination, decision, finality.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Alice didn’t like this idea at all: so, to change the subject, she asked ‘Does she ever come out here?’
— from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

This argument is predicated upon the philosophical axiom, that two infinite beings of any description of conception, cannot exist, either in whole or in part, at the same time; and per consequence, it is impossible that the Father and Son should both be God in a divine sense, either conjointly or separately.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

Now the Allies had the Enigma Machine, and they could intercept lots of Nazi radio-messages, which shouldn't have been that big a deal, since every captain had his own secret key.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Adj. vocal, phonetic, oral; ejaculatory, articulate, distinct, stertorous; euphonious &c. (melodious) 413.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

To complete the picture which I was drawing, you have only to think of the æther waves arriving upon this planet and disturbing sympathetic electrons, causing them to revolve around their atoms in similar fashion to our distant fellows who are producing the æther waves.
— from The Autobiography of an Electron Wherein the Scientific Ideas of the Present Time Are Explained in an Interesting and Novel Fashion by Charles R. (Charles Robert) Gibson

"UNL (Universal Networking Language) is a language that - with its companion "enconverter" and "deconverter" software - enables communication among peoples of differing native languages.
— from Multilingualism on the Web by Marie Lebert

Natural hazards: frequent sand and dust storms Environment - current issues: desertification; depletion of underground water resources; the lack of perennial rivers or permanent water bodies has prompted the development of extensive seawater desalination facilities; coastal pollution from oil spills Environment - international agreements: party to: Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements Geography - note: extensive coastlines on Persian Gulf and Red Sea provide great leverage on shipping (especially crude oil) through Persian Gulf and Suez Canal @Saudi Arabia:People Population: 22,023,506 note: includes 5,360,526 non-nationals (July 2000 est.)
— from The 2000 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Not in bed yet? Then come out and do some extra chores."
— from The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years by Elizabeth Atkins

She would take it back into the keeping of her heart, and if a day should ever come when he would be free to return, and demand it of her, he would find it there, unwithered, with all the unbreathed perfume hoarded in its folded leaves.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

A deep sigh escaped Cecilia at this speech; she guessed too well what she might have heard, and she knew too well how it might be contradicted.
— from Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 3 by Fanny Burney