The commander learned, for the first time, how Great Britain lost her colonies; of the French Revolution; of the great Napoleon, whose achievements, perhaps, Peleg colored more highly than the commander's superiors would have liked.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

A political prisoner called M. met me; he looked at me gloomily, his eyes flashed and his lips quivered. "
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I think that a cool and prudent player can manage both without exposing himself to censure, or deserving to be called a cheat.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

In this the Chinese are a long way behind the mariners and fishermen of the French coast, who have for centuries, by a pious philology, connected ‘Maria’ with ‘La Marée’ and ‘La Mer;’ and whenever they have been saved from storms, bring their votive offerings to sea-side shrines of the Star of the Sea.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Like ordinary light, animal light will also cause fluorescence and phosphorescence of substances, affect a photographic plate, cause marked heliotropism of plant seedlings (Nadson, 1903) and stimulate the formation of chlorophyll (Issatschenko, 1903, 1907).
— from The Nature of Animal Light by E. Newton (Edmund Newton) Harvey

My children, my manifold duties as theatrical up-lifter and club promoter, together with a swift letting down of my mental and physical powers, caused me to question the value of all my writing.
— from A Daughter of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland

Darling, indulgent, good old Mimsey!—you don't mean to turn into a prim, prosy, cross Mrs. Grundy!
— from Thelma by Marie Corelli

Imports - commodities: food and live animals, petroleum and petroleum products, chemicals, machinery, motor vehicles, cereals, textiles Imports - partners: Saudi Arabia 14.7%, China 12.6%, US 12.4%, India 6.7%, Italy 4.6% (2005)
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

"In the preparatory work for a progressive parentage, club members are taught, that prospective fathers and mothers, must become familiar with the sciences, the industrial, and the higher arts, if they wish their children to inherit, whatever intellectual progress, they as parents, may achieve.
— from Solaris Farm: A Story of the Twentieth Century by Milan C. Edson

Imports: $67.9 billion (f.o.b., 1999) Imports - commodities: machinery, petroleum and petroleum products, chemicals, motor vehicles, iron and steel; foodstuffs, clothing Imports - partners: EU 68% (Germany 19%, UK 10%, Denmark 6%, France 6%), Norway 8%, US 6% (1998) Debt - external: $66.5 billion (1994)
— from The 2000 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

As Mr. Greeley about this time was appearing upon the political horizon as a prospective presidential candidate, much interest was naturally centered in his visit.
— from As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century by Marian Gouverneur