A message to 'the cafe' goes through the international networks to a host computer in North Dakota (U.S.A.).
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

Of which charges I neither deny nor object to the one, that we, since we have been admitted into the state and the patricians, have strenuously done our utmost, that the dignity of those families, among which ye were pleased that we should be, might be truly said rather to have been increased than diminished.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

The coverlet or white cloth is no doubt the soul-cloth, into which the woman’s soul is expected to enter when it arrives.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

The place of division of the common carotid is not definite, and, therefore, the precise situation in the upper two-thirds of the neck, where it may present as a single main vessel, cannot be predicted with certainty in the undissected body.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

Example: The file BINSTART can be retrieved from the KIDART directory on a computer center in North Dakota, U.S.A. It explains how to retrieve binary art files from the KIDLINK project's file libraries.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

Such a condition is not democracy, but revolution.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

The reaction caused her a sharp pang, but after a passing movement of irritation at the clumsiness of fate, and at her own carelessness in not denying the door to all but Selden, she controlled herself and greeted Rosedale amicably.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

I hope yet that Hood will be badly crippled, if not destroyed.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

enters Milan, 149 ; at Marengo, 151 ; establishes Cisalpine Republic, 154 ; arrives in Paris, 155 ; attempted assassination, 157 ; conduct towards the Pope, 162 ; prepares to invade England, 165 ; peace with England, 166 ; his court, 169 ; allows emigrants to return, 169 ; re-establishes Catholic religion, 170 ; concordat with Pope, 171 ; institutes Legion of Honour, 175 ; First Consul for life, 176 ; Grand Mediator of Helvetic Republic, 178 ; sends expedition to St. Domingo, 178 ; banishes negroes, 180 ; negotiates with Louis XVIII., 183 ; arrests English subjects, 187 ; seizes Hanover and Naples, 189 ; prepares to invade England, 190 ; conspiracy against him, 194 ; condemns the Duke d'Enghien, 198 ; declared Emperor, 206 ; at Boulogne and Aix-la-Chapelle, 207 ; crowned in Notre Dame, and at Milan, 208 ; heads army in Germany, 212 ; enters Vienna, 215 ; at Austerlitz, 221 ; offers Hanover to Prussia, 224 ; confers crowns on his relatives, 226 ; at Jena, 234 ; exactions in Prussia, 238 ; robs monument of Frederick the Great, 239 ; issues decrees of Berlin, 240 ; takes Warsaw, 244 ; at battle of Preuss-Eylau, 247 ; meets Russian Emperor at Tilsit, 254 ; his administration in France, 259-264 ; relations with Spain, 265 , et seq.
— from The History of Napoleon Buonaparte by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

For Maryland no detailed statement can be found, but much valuable information is contained in Newton D. Mereness, Maryland as a Proprietary Province (1901).
— from England in America, 1580-1652 by Lyon Gardiner Tyler

In Chapter IV, "No, direct news" was changed to "No direct news", "Did you ever seen" was changed to "Did you ever see", and a colon was added after "but after a moment he said".
— from A Successful Shadow; Or, A Detective's Successful Quest by Old Sleuth

No, Communism is not dangerous, when it shows itself in its most naked form, that of pure and simple spoliation; it is not dangerous, because it excites horror.
— from Protection and Communism by Frédéric Bastiat

The P.p.c. card involves no duty of acknowledgment on the part of its recipient.
— from Etiquette Made Easy by Edward Summers Squier

I confess I can imagine no day on which I regard my friend with deeper emotion that on that never-to-be-forgotten one, on which Fate gives him the brother kiss, the hand-pressure, the land of love and Philadelphia and Vaucluse's spring, united in one female heart.
— from The Campaner Thal, and Other Writings by Jean Paul

Is it not, then, true that the stomach is nobler than the brain, and if so, then the pig and the lion and the goat, which have strong stomachs, nobler than man, whose stomach could in nowise digest carrion, or alfalfa, or tin cans, and therefore may it not be that the earth was made for the lower animals, who can use more of its products than man? Socrates —That is a deep thought, O Phædo, which shows that you are well up in your Spencer, although shy in your surgery, for it is true that the stomach has been removed from a man who lived happy ever after, while neither man nor beast ever lived a minute after his brains were knocked out; but is it not true that it is by the function of the brain that man makes his powers more effective than those of animals stronger than he, so that he is able to bear rule over all the lower animals and either exterminate them from the earth or make them to serve him? Phædo —
— from A Critique of Socialism Read Before The Ruskin Club of Oakland California, 1905 by George R. Sims

In trade fabrics are always described in the plural, and the Z in Chintz is no doubt a perversion, through misunderstanding, of the terminal S. Lac is another Indian word which has retained its own meaning, but it has gone beyond it and given rise to a verb "to lacquer.
— from Concerning Animals and Other Matters by Edward Hamilton Aitken

Yet could I not die! .
— from A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari And Other Tales of South-West Africa by Frederick Carruthers Cornell

He sees warm blood still oozing from the wound, and knows, or hopes, Clancy is not dead.
— from The Death Shot: A Story Retold by Mayne Reid