‘Faster, sirrah!’ cried Quilp, looking up at the old gateway, and showing in the moonlight like some monstrous image that had come down from its niche and was casting a backward glance at its old house, ‘faster!’
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

22 When Christianity departed from its native soil, which consisted of the lowest classes, the submerged [Pg 151] masses of the ancient world, and set forth in quest of power among barbaric nations, it no longer met with exhausted men but inwardly savage and self-lacerating men—the strong but bungled men.
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

When Christianity departed from its native soil, that of the lowest orders, the underworld of the ancient world, and began seeking power among barbarian peoples, it no longer had to deal with exhausted men, but with men still inwardly savage and capable of self-torture—in brief, strong men, but bungled men.
— from The Antichrist by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Whoever he was, ’twas a just and good observation in him.—But the corollary drawn from it, namely, “ That it is this which has furnished us with such a variety of odd and whimsical characters;”—that was not his;—it was found out by another man, at least a century and a half after him: Then again,—that this copious store-house of original materials, is the true and natural cause that our Comedies are so much better than those of France, or any others that either have, or can be wrote upon the Continent:——that discovery was not fully made till about the middle of King William ’s reign,—when the great Dryden, in writing one of his long prefaces, (if I mistake not) 112 most fortunately hit upon it.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Whoever he was, 'twas a just and good observation in him.—But the corollary drawn from it, namely, 'That it is this which has furnished us with such a variety of odd and whimsical
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

THE EVIDENCES of CHRISTIANITY, derived from its Nature and Reception.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 127, April 3, 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

It is related that when a certain duke found it necessary to retrench, and was advised by his family solicitor to get rid of his fifth, sixth, and seventh cooks, his grace remarked, "But ——, So-and-so, a man must have a biscuit!"
— from The Egregious English by T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson) Crosland

D.A.G., Commanding Dominion Forces in North-West .
— from The Treaties of Canada with the Indians of Manitoba and the North-West Territories Including the Negotiations on Which They Were Based, and Other Information Relating Thereto by Alexander Morris

Fiji, Finland, France, Ghana, Ireland, Italy, Nepal, Norway, Poland, Sweden United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission (UNIKOM) established-NA 1991 aim-established by the UN Security Council to observe and monitor the demilitarized zone established between Iraq and Kuwait members-(34) Argentina, Austria, Bangladesh, Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, Fiji, Finland, France, Ghana, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Kenya, Malaysia, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Russia, Senegal, Singapore, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, UK, US, Uruguay, Venezuela United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) established-13 August 1948 aim-established by the UN Security Council to observe the 1949 India-Pakistan ceasefire members-(8) Belgium, Chile, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Uruguay United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) established-NA 1990 aim-established by the UN Security Council to supervise the referendum in Western Sahara members-(25) Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Canada, China, Egypt, France, Ghana, Greece, Guinea, Ireland, Italy, Kenya, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Russia, Switzerland, Tunisia, UK, US, Venezuela United Nations Observer Mission in El Salvador (ONUSAL) established-NA 1991 aim-established by the UN Security Council to verify ceasefire arrangments and to monitor the maintenance of public order pending the organization of a new National Civil Police members-(9) Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Ecuador, India, Ireland, Spain, Sweden, Venezuela United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) established-3 December 1949 effective-1 January 1951 aim-to try to ensure the humanitarian treatment of refugees and find permanent solutions to refugee problems members-(46) Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia,Denmark, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holy See, Hungary, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Lesotho, Madagascar, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, Somalia, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda,UK, US, Venezuela, Yugoslavia, Zaire United Nations Operation in Mozambique (UNOMOZ) established-NA 1992 aim-established by the UN Security Council to supervise the ceasefire members-(18) Argentina, Bangladesh, Botswana, Brazil, Canada, Cape Verde, Egypt, Guinea-Bissau, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Uruguay, Zambia United Nations Operation in Somalia (UNOSOM) established-NA 1992 aim-established by the UN Security Council to facilitate an immediate cessation of hostilities, to maintain a ceasefire to promote a political settlement, and to provide urgent humanitarian assistance members-(17) Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Egypt, Fiji, Finland, Indonesia, Jordan, Morocco, NZ, Norway, Pakistan, Slovakia, Zimbabwe United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) note-acronym retained from predecessor organization UN Fund for Population Activities established-NA July 1967 aim-to promote assistance in dealing with population problems members-(51) selected on a rotating basis from all regions United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) established-NA 1992 aim-established by the UN Security Council to create conditions for peace and security required for the negotiation of an overall settlement of the "Yugoslav" crisis members-(31) Argentina, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Ghana, Ireland, Jordan, Kenya, Luxembourg, Nepal, Netherlands, NZ, Nigeria, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Ukraine, UK, Venezuela United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) established-8 December 1949 aim-to provide assistance to Palestinian refugees members-(10)
— from The 1993 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The only benefit his company derived from its new work was that it gave employment to part of the members of its staff, thus reducing in some measure the expenses.
— from Albert Ballin by Bernhard Huldermann

They are living copies of the pictures of Kate Greenaway, whose love of children, diverted from its natural outlet, has sought gratification in the most affected style of drawing, wherein the sacredness of childhood is profaned under absurd disguises.
— from Degeneration by Max Simon Nordau

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) overfishing by unlicensed vessels is a problem; reindeer were introduced to the islands in 2001 for commercial reasons; this is the only commercial reindeer herd in the world unaffected by the Chornobyl disaster Faroe Islands NA Fiji deforestation; soil erosion Finland air pollution from manufacturing and power plants contributing to acid rain; water pollution from industrial wastes, agricultural chemic
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Another interesting fact is, that whilst the Chou dynasty, and consequently Confucius of Lu (which state was intimately connected by blood with the Chou family), had introduced a new calendar, making the year begin one (Shang) or two (Hia) months sooner than before, Tsin had continued to compute (see page 27) the year according to the system of the Hia dynasty: in other words, the intercalary moons, or massed fractions of time periodically introduced in order to bring the solar and lunar years into line, had during the millennium so accumulated (at the rate apparently of, roughly, sixty days in 360,000, or, say, three half-seconds a day) that the Chou dynasty found it necessary to call the Hia eleventh moon the first and the Hia first moon the third of the year.
— from Ancient China Simplified by Edward Harper Parker

NMT - Nordic Mobile Telephone; an analog cellular telephone system that was developed jointly by the national telecommunications authorities of the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden).
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

When I contemplate—said my friend, the Poet—the infinite largeness of comprehension belonging to the Central Intelligence, how remote the creative conception is from all scholastic and ethical formulæ, I am led to think that a healthy mind ought to change its mood from time to time, and come down from its noblest condition,—never, of course, to degrade itself by dwelling upon what is itself debasing, but to let its lower faculties have a chance to air and exercise themselves.
— from The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes