They still gained a little by casting nativities, and kept starvation at arm’s length, till a new dupe, rich enough for their purposes, dropped into their toils, in the shape of a royal personage.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

§ 103 110 At non debuit ratum esse, quod erat actum per vim.—Quasi vero forti viro vis possit adhiberi.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Telephone system: general assessment: NA domestic: relatively efficient system based on islandwide microwave radio relay network international: 1 coaxial submarine cable; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) Radio broadcast stations: AM 120, FM 56, shortwave 4 (1998) Radios: 1.44 million (1997) Television broadcast stations: 25 (1997) Televisions: 770,000 (1997)
— from The 2002 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Thoroughly God-fearing States are not so common that we can afford to despise them when found; and nowhere does religion enter more into daily life than in Vermont or Massachusetts.
— from Greater Britain: A Record of Travel in English-Speaking Countries During 1866-7 by Dilke, Charles Wentworth, Sir

An absurd reluctance to speak of her, of which he was ashamed, and for which he would have assigned no definite reason even to himself, had made him indisposed to seek his old friend on such a subject; but it seemed to him, now that her soul was apparently set on the career which his wife's careless praise had suggested to her, no other way of life was so possible for her, or so likely to afford her interest, occupation and independence.
— from Othmar by Ouida

I cannot and never do recommend either a terra-cotta or real green wall; the latter is such a nondescript and uncertain colour that the use of it in the entrance appears to {38} me to strike the keynote to the character of the inhabitants, who are thus pronounced uncertain in their ideas, and not particularly satisfactory, and there are so many ‘builder’s horrors’ in the shape of dull, gloomy terra-cotta papers that inexperienced folks are apt to buy simply because the pure word ‘terra-cotta’ implies to a certain class of mind that the paper is artistic and high art, that I am impelled to taboo terra-cotta altogether at once; but if Liberty’s ‘tulip’ and ‘marigold’ damasque papers are bought a terra-cotta wall may be indulged in, though I can never pronounce this as totally satisfactory as are the red, blue, and yellow and brown walls.
— from Nooks and Corners being the companion volume to 'From Kitchen to Garret' by J. E. (Jane Ellen) Panton

They are not de rigueur even yet, I believe; but Adelaide was never very particular, so long as she could look well.
— from Ravenshoe by Henry Kingsley

Communications Dominican Republic Telephones - main lines in use: 894,500 (2005) Telephones - mobile cellular: 3.623 million (2005) Telephone system: general assessment: NA domestic: relatively efficient system based on island-wide microwave radio relay network international: country code - 1-809; 1 coaxial submarine cable; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

At the village of Windham we dined in a cheerful sunny parlour on a neatly dressed repast excellent in every way, and with very pleasant chatty company.”
— from Stage-coach and Tavern Days by Alice Morse Earle

She will have a man of rank and family; and—excuse me, Greenwood—although you are no doubt rich enough far a lord, and well educated, and clever, and so on—the deuce of it is that we don't know who the devil you are!"
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 1/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

And let us as a nation do right, even to the humblest of God's creatures, and leave the consequences with Him, who holds in his hands the destinies alike of individuals [Pg 321] and of races.
— from Across America; Or, The Great West and the Pacific Coast by James Fowler Rusling