‘The dale (in the Desert) was wild and monotonous, nothing but sandstone rock, the surfaces of which were burned as black as coals, but turned into burning golden yellow at every crack, and every ravine, whence a number of sand-rivulets, like fire-streams from black dross, ran and filled the valleys.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway
He wrote to the Admiralty, requesting a clear and explicit reply to his inquiry, Whether the commander-in-chief was at liberty to hold the language becoming a British admiral?
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey
To the understanding of anything, two conditions are equally required—intelligibility in the thing itself being no whit more indispensable than intelligence in the examiner of it.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.
"Cures are effected rather by regulating diet than by the use of medicines.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
My health was not very good; the winter was cold and exceptionally rainy; and the small albergo in which I lived was so close to the water that at night my sleep was disturbed if the sea was rough.
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
But in the present day, their ordinary disposition is the very opposite: they willingly make considerable sacrifices, especially of their pecuniary interest, for the benefit of the working classes, and err rather by too lavish and indiscriminating beneficence; nor do I believe that any rulers in history have been actuated by a more sincere desire to do their duty towards the poorer portion of their countrymen.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill
But the persistent vagabond did not leave him even now, though now, it is true, he did not chatter, and even respectfully kept his distance, a full step behind.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Sony est éditeur de CD (audio et Rom) parce que ça rapporte.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert
Permit me to say, Sir, that I highly admire your conduct, and extremely regret having caused you the inconvenience of this meeting, to no purpose.’
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
No man can pretend that the wild, barbarous, and capricious superstitions of Africa, or of savage tribes elsewhere, affect him in the way that he is affected by the ancient, monumental, cruel, and elaborate religions of Indostan, &
— from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
Claudia consented, and Edwin ran into the rectory.
— from The Red Bicycle by Fergus Hume
Economic aid - donor: since its founding in 1971, the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development has given about $5.2 billion in aid to 56 countries (2004) Currency (code): Emirati dirham (AED) Currency code: AED Exchange rates: Emirati dirhams per US dollar - 3.673 (2006), 3.6725 (2005), 3.6725 (2004), 3.6725 (2003), 3.6725 (2002), note, officially pegged to the US dollar since February 2002
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Post-Offices, Newspapers, Colleges, Academies, Expresses, Railroads, Together with other useful information often required in the COUNTING-ROOM.
— from The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 6 by Various
There is excitement everywhere, and commotion and cursing, and everybody runs down to the beach.
— from Prowling about Panama by George A. (George Amos) Miller
Familiarity breeds contempt and engenders rebuke—the loquacity of the child offended the official, who drew her from the doorway with a jerk, totally unexpected upon her side, and placed her in the roadway.
— from Mattie:—A Stray (Vol 1 of 3) by F. W. (Frederick William) Robinson
The bee passed onward, humming of the work he had to do; the idle gnats for ever going round and round in one contracting and expanding ring, yet always going on as fast as he, danced merrily before him; the colour of the long grass came and went, as if the light clouds made it timid as they floated through the distant air.
— from Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
The cylinders are easily removable.
— from A Text-book of Paper-making by C. F. (Charles Frederick) Cross
Economic aid - recipient: US provided about $70 million in humanitarian assistance in 1997; US continues to contribute to multilateral assistance through the UN programs of food aid, immunization, land mine removal, and a wide range of aid to refugees and displaced persons Currency: afghani (AFA) Currency code: AFA Exchange rates: afghanis per US dollar - 4,700 (January 2000), 4,750 (February 1999), 17,000 (December 1996), 7,000 (January 1995), 1,900 (January 1994), 1,019 (March 1993), 850 (1991); note - these rates reflect the free market exchange rates rather than the official exchange rate, which was fixed at 50.600 afghanis to the dollar until 1996, when it rose to 2,262.65 per dollar, and finally became fixed again at 3,000.00 per dollar in April 1996
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
in the face of poverty, and opposition, and abuse, and contempt, and even (remember this) of blandishments and flatteries, which are more destructive than even abuse and contempt.
— from Thoughts on Art and Autobiographical Memoirs of Giovanni Duprè by Giovanni Duprè
Market value of publicly traded shares: $138.5 billion (2006) Currency (code): Emirati dirham (AED) Currency code: AED Exchange rates: Emirati dirhams (AED) per US dollar - 3.673 (2007), 3.673 (2006), 3.6725 (2005), 3.6725 (2004), 3.6725 (2003) note: officially pegged to the US dollar since February 2002
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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