Have you the papers?” he asked, going into a very spacious and positively clean restaurant, consisting of several rooms, which were, however, rather empty.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Allah, what a city!' 'My father's brother, and he was an old man when Mackerson Sahib's well was new at Peshawur, could recall when there were but two houses in it.'
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

But his cause was supported by the Western churches; and the bishops of the synod resolved to perpetuate the mischiefs of discord, by the hasty ordination of a perjured candidate, rather than to betray the imagined dignity of the East, which had been illustrated by the birth and death of the Son of God.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

21 Of three Valluvans, whom I interviewed at Coimbatore, one, with a flowing white beard, had a lingam wrapped up in a pink cloth round the neck, and a charm tied in a pink cloth round the right upper arm.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

ANT: Polite, civilized, refined, humane, urbane.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

But consider withal if the Bourne-stones and Portable chairs remain silent; if the Herald's College of Bill-Stickers sleep!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

You heard a private conversation respecting Spanish affairs—on the expulsion of Don Carlos.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Sir Andrew Barnard, however, who commanded the Light Division, knowing how peculiarly well qualified he was for desperate enterprise, assigned him a post in front of the Forlorn Hope, in the command of a party carrying ropes prepared with nooses to throw over the sword-blades which formed the chevaux-de-frise, in the hope of being able to displace it by dragging it down the breach, but Johnstone and all his party were stricken down before they got within throwing distance.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

When despairing Hungarian fugitives make their way, against all the search-warrants and authorities of their lawful government, to America, press and political cabinet ring with applause and welcome.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

ANT: Order, arrange, place, collocate, range.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

He is now a private citizen returned to his country estate at Mount Vernon on the banks of the Potomac.
— from Washington in Domestic Life From Original Letters and Manuscripts by Richard Rush

The worst of the damage was in the auxiliary power control room, where communication and power lines were slashed and the panel cut up.
— from Greylorn by Keith Laumer

He was by nature dilatory, and preferred cautiously reasoned measures to accidental success.
— from Tacitus: The Histories, Volumes I and II by Cornelius Tacitus

Hast thou not seen women of the mountains dressed in rough and poor clothes richer in beauty than those who are adorned?
— from Thoughts on Art and Life by da Vinci Leonardo

74 Dr. Neuhaus describes his method of photographing snowflakes in Dr. Eder's Jarbuch, from which article we extract the most important and interesting paragraphs: Were we to attempt to photograph snow crystals in a perfectly cold room, the temperature is still higher than that out of doors; moisture at once precipitates upon the carrier of the object; the crystals would melt and evaporate after a short time.
— from Photographic Amusements, Ninth Edition Including A Description of a Number of Novel Effects Obtainable with the Camera by Walter E. Woodbury

[Pg 170] and will inhabit hovels as long as present conditions remain unchanged.
— from The Conquest of Bread by Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz

'Mary,' said her father one evening, when she was standing at the window of the corridor, refreshing her eye with gazing at the glorious sunset in the midst of a pile of crimson and purple clouds, reflected in the ocean—'Mary, Ward is going to Mew York next week.' 'So soon?' said Mary.
— from Dynevor Terrace; Or, The Clue of Life — Volume 2 by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), Mariano PALACIOS Alocer; National Action Party (PAN), Felipe CALDERON Hinojosa; Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), Andres Manuel LOPEZ Obrador; Cardenist Front for the National Reconstruction Party (PFCRN), Rafael AGUILAR Talamantes; Democratic Forum Party (PFD), Rosalia RAMIREZ; Mexican Green Ecologist Party (PVEM), Jorge GONZALEZ Torres; Workers Party (PT), Alberto ANAYA Gutierrez Political pressure groups and leaders: Roman Catholic Church; Confederation of Mexican Workers (CTM); Confederation of Industrial Chambers (CONCAMIN); Confederation of National Chambers of Commerce (CONCANACO); National Peasant Confederation (CNC); Revolutionary Workers Party (PRT); Revolutionary Confederation of Workers and Peasants (CROC); Regional Confederation of Mexican Workers (CROM); Confederation of Employers of the Mexican Republic (COPARMEX); National Chamber of Transformation Industries (CANACINTRA); Coordinator for Foreign Trade Business Organizations (COECE); Federation of Unions Providing Goods and Services (FESEBES)
— from The 1998 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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— from The Subtropical Garden; or, beauty of form in the flower garden. by W. (William) Robinson

Though he had always, as long as people could remember him in Hanwitch, been what they called a dissipated man, he had managed somehow or other to get a living, to keep his landlord civil and wear good clothes.
— from John Holdsworth, Chief Mate by William Clark Russell