Assured that there were not, he tapped his nose several times, accompanying the action with a cunning look, as though congratulating himself on his caution; and stretching out his neck, said in a loud whisper, ‘Are you a princess?’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

He came late, at the confidential hour when the tea-table still lingers by the fire in friendly expectancy; and his manner showed a readiness to adapt itself to the intimacy of the occasion.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

While still at sea in my ship I could bear the cattle lowing as they came home to the yards, and the sheep bleating.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

When the different nationalities, with their different national cultures, have so far interpenetrated one another that each has permanent colonies within the territorial limits of the other, it is inevitable that the old solidarities, the common loyalties and the common hatreds that formerly bound men together in primitive kinship and local groups should be undermined.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

He had corrupted beforehand the most important officers of the several cohorts; and he himself deliberately affected fear, and shrunk from every service of danger; and finally they were ejected from the town with considerable loss, although they could have mastered the enemy with ease.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Carrie looked at the card handed by the boy and suffered a shock of surprise.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

Equatorial Guinea partly based on Spanish civil law and tribal custom; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction Eritrea primary basis is the Ethiopian legal code of 1957 with revisions; new civil, commercial, and penal codes have not yet been promulgated; government also issues unilateral proclamations setting laws and policies; also relies on customary and post-independence-enacted laws and, for civil cases involving Muslims, Islamic law; does not accept compulsory ICJ jurisdiction Estonia based on civil law system; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction with reservations Ethiopia based on civil law; currently transitional mix of national and regional courts; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction European Union comparable to the legal systems of member states; first supranational law system Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

It was clear that the city had been abandoned by its defenders; and the king, the cardinal legate, and the clergy, having formed in procession, walked to the grand mosque, which was speedily converted into a Christian church, and sang psalms of praise and thanksgiving.
— from The Boy Crusaders: A Story of the Days of Louis IX. by John G. (John George) Edgar

The giant pulled vigorously to the point which, now known as the Hommet, terminates the northern arm of Vazon Bay; there he landed the youth, to enable him to stretch his cramped limbs, and to clothe him in such articles as he could spare from his own equipment.
— from The Forest of Vazon A Guernsey Legend of the Eighth Century by Anonymous

That their execution required over fifteen years of ceaseless labor and the closest historical study is not surprising.
— from Thirteen Chapters of American History represented by the Edward Moran series of Thirteen Historical Marine Paintings by Theodore Sutro

For a certain portion of the passengers had the unmistakable excursion air: the half-jocular manner towards each other, the local facetiousness which is so offensive to uninterested fellow-travelers, that male obsequiousness about ladies' shawls and reticules, the clumsy pretense of gallantry with each other's wives, the anxiety about the company luggage and the company health.
— from The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 1 by Charles Dudley Warner

Administrative divisions: 7 provinces (provincias, singular - provincia); Annobon, Bioko Norte, Bioko Sur, Centro Sur, Kie-Ntem, Litoral, Wele-Nzas Independence: 12 October 1968 (from Spain) National holiday: Independence Day, 12 October (1968) Constitution: approved by national referendum 17 November 1991; amended January 1995 Legal system: partly based on Spanish civil law and tribal custom; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal Executive branch: chief of state: President Brig.
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

[62] From early days, however, the fair had increased beyond church limits, and the City had acquired certain rights.
— from London Signs and Inscriptions by Philip Norman

Colonel O'Mara, the possessor of the estates, was then in a declining state of health, and absent with his lady from the country, leaving at the castle, his son young O'Mara, and a kind of humble companion, named Edward Dwyer, who, if report belied him not, had done in his early days some PECULIAR SERVICES for the Colonel, who had been a gay man—perhaps worse—but enough of recapitulation.
— from The Purcell Papers — Volume 2 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu