On this request being preferred, the corpulent man condescended to order the boots to bring in the gentlemen’s luggage; and preceding them down a long, dark passage, ushered them into a large, badly-furnished apartment, with a dirty grate, in which a small fire was making a wretched attempt to be cheerful, but was fast sinking beneath the dispiriting influence of the place.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

earthy, continental, midland, coastal, littoral, riparian; alluvial; terrene &c. (world) 318; landed, predial[obs3], territorial; geophilous[obs3]; ripicolous.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

I have no wish to send A gossip to corrupt my court, And spread each lying, false report: I hate a gossip."
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

From one word to more we were resolved to try, and to that end to step to the Pope’s Head Taverne, and there he and his Clerke and Attorney and I and my Clerke, and sent for Mr. Smallwood, and by and by comes Mr. Clerke, my Solicitor, and after I had privately discoursed with my men and seen how doubtfully they talked, and what future certain charge and trouble it would be, with a doubtful victory, I resolved to condescend very low, and after some talke all together Trice
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

" 18 "I Tried Not to Be" It was pretty, comfortable Mrs. Carmichael who explained everything.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

I have told you that your suspicions wounded me, and I think you can believe me when I tell you that I have completely changed my conduct in that respect.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

“A positive feast!” cried M. Coquenard, turning about in his chair, “a real feast, EPULCE EPULORUM.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Fathers and mothers goes for nothing,” continued Mrs Carey, as she took a very long pinch of snuff and deeply mused.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Fluvius cum mari certas —You but a river, and contending with the ocean.
— 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.

W. L. Clark W. T. Draper SALVATION ARMY DRIVE Carl Moore , Chairman Subscription, $160.00 Total Liberty and Victory Loans $70,600.00 Membership and Subscription Red Cross 4,743.05 Y. M. C. A. 625.00 Salvation Army 160.00 United War Fund 1,797.75 War Saving Stamps 32,000.00 Committee Report Letters written boys in Service 894 Letters from boys in Service 263 Miscellaneous letters written 564 Number of parcels or packages forwarded 363 Number of visitors at Station 1623 Boys leaving during month for Service Total number in Service 74 Number of Bulletins mailed 1153 Killed in action 4 Died of wounds 1 Died of disease 1 Wounded 2 From Langdale Red Cross Sweaters 56 Sox, pairs 166 Triangular bandages 326 T bandages 292 Abdominal bandages 255 Bed shirts 92 Hospital shirts 10 Refugee aprons 45 Refugee dresses 20 Pajamas, pairs 24 Operating robes 12 Refugee garments 1202 Bath towels 100 Shoes, pairs 13 Junior Red Cross Triangular bandages 50 Refugee garments 167 Cash $5.00 Scrap books 30 Barrels of nuts collected 4 Pounds of tinfoil collected 15 Property bags 20 Fairfax Pvt.
— from Defenders of Democracy by Anonymous

Presently a lump forms on the elbow and this increases in size, filling with a yellowish cheesy matter, causing the bird to drag the wing.
— from Profitable Squab Breeding by Carl Dare

"And then all this trouble about the diamonds and the robberies will be over," continued Mrs. Carbuncle.
— from The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope

fill'd my doating sire, 'Till he would press me to his aged breast, And cry, "My child, in thee my age is blest!
— from Poems: Containing The Restropect, Odes, Elegies, Sonnets, &c. by Robert Southey

Military expenditures: 2.4% of GDP (2006) country comparison to the world: 69 Transnational Issues ::Australia Disputes - international: Timor-Leste and Australia agreed in 2005 to defer the disputed portion of the boundary for 50 years and to split hydrocarbon revenues evenly outside the Joint Petroleum Development Area covered by the 2002 Timor Sea Treaty; dispute with Timor-Leste hampers creation of a revised maritime boundary with Indonesia in the Timor Sea; regional states continue to express concern over Australia's 2004 declaration of a 1,000-nautical mile-wide maritime identification zone; Australia asserts land and maritime claims to Antarctica; in 2004 Australia submitted its claims to Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) to extend its continental margins covering over 3.37 million square kilometers, expanding its seabed roughly 30 percent more than its claimed exclusive economic zone; since 2003, Australia has led the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands (RAMSI) to maintain civil and political order and reinforce regional security Illicit drugs: Tasmania is one of the world's major suppliers of licit opiate products; government maintains strict controls over areas of opium poppy cultivation and output of poppy straw concentrate; major consumer of cocaine and amphetamines page last updated on November 11, 2009
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

well that one reason why a fourflushing old back-number like Chan Mott can get away with it in real estate is just because he can make a good talk, even when he hasn't got a doggone thing to say!
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

In America, mixed with wood-ashes (the chief manurial constituent of which is potash), they have been extensively used as a substitute for farmyard manure, and have been applied at the rate of 5 to 6 cwt. per acre.
— from Manures and the principles of manuring by Charles Morton Aikman

Delay has followed delay; excuse has followed excuse; and 202 now, at the crucial moment, comes the climax of your incapacity.
— from A Prince to Order by Charles Stokes Wayne

ish my journey below, and while changing my clothes grin with satisfaction—the Snark is making easting.
— from The Cruise of the Snark by Jack London

[50] —in bearing the load of time that weighed miserably upon me and that in abstaining from what I in my calm moments considered a crime, I deserved the reward of virtue.
— from Mathilda by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley