Consequently, the entire crop goes into export.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers
And if you wish to receive of the ancient city an impression with which the modern one can no longer furnish you, climb—on the morning of some grand festival, beneath the rising sun of Easter or of Pentecost—climb upon some elevated point, whence you command the entire capital; and be present at the wakening of the chimes.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo
Este punto representa Puerto España, con el cual se hace casi todo el comercio fluvial de Venezuela. —¿Y este otro lugar más al sur?
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
A thousand cases against which the legislator has made no provision may present themselves, and it is a highly necessary part of foresight to be conscious that everything cannot be foreseen.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I may also add, that it appears by some papers in my possession, that the officers or Country Keepers on the border, were accustomed to torment their prisoners by binding them to the iron bars of their chimneys, to extort confession.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott
Tales plus caeteris timent, et continue tristantur, valde suspiciosi, solitudinem diligunt, corruptissimas habent imaginationes, &c. 2575 .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
Whilst the savages were engaged in the work of civilization, the Europeans continued to surround them on every side, and to confine them within narrower limits; the two races gradually met, and they are now in immediate juxtaposition to each other.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville
It is certain that this monastery, which had a grand air, both as a church and as a seignory; that abbatial palace, where the bishops of Paris counted themselves happy if they could pass the night; that refectory, upon which the architect had bestowed the air, the beauty, and the rose window of a cathedral; that elegant chapel of the Virgin; that monumental dormitory; those vast gardens; that portcullis; that drawbridge; that envelope of battlements which notched to the eye the verdure of the surrounding meadows; those courtyards, where gleamed men at arms, intermingled with golden copes;—the whole grouped and clustered about three lofty spires, with round arches, well planted upon a Gothic apse, made a magnificent figure against the horizon.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo
Haag, November 3, 1805 , 10 P.M. I am in full march; the weather is very cold, the earth covered with a foot of snow.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I
country code - 970 (2004) Georgia general assessment: fixed-line telecommunications network has only limited coverage outside Tbilisi; multiple mobile-cellular providers provide services to an increasing subscribership throughout the country domestic: cellular telephone networks now cover the entire country; urban telephone density is about 20 per 100 people; rural telephone density is about 4 per 100 people; intercity facilities include a fiber-optic line between T'bilisi and K'ut'aisi; nationwide pager service is available international:
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Some of them had been obliged to emigrate; others were compelled to embrace Christianity, and were required by the king Chintila, solemnly to declare in writing their sincere adherence to the Catholic faith and their entire repudiation of Judaism.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 3 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz
Again, where our forefathers said, that as touching immortal and everlasting life, they lived by no other means, but by the “flesh and blood of that Lamb who was without spot,” that is to say, of our Saviour Jesus Christ, the envious creatures and foes of Christ’s Cross, whose only care was to bring Christian religion into slander by all manner of ways, made people believe that they were wicked persons, that they “sacrificed men’s flesh, and drunk men’s blood.” Also, where our forefathers page 87
— from The Apology of the Church of England by John Jewel
I cannot call the Egyptian constancy a virtue, it is a delusion.
— from An Egyptian Princess — Complete by Georg Ebers
The oriel window, weathered by London atmosphere, has a very picturesque effect; it is surmounted by the arms of Sir John Crosby, the eminent citizen who built and first possessed the mansion, and who lies buried in the adjoining church, where there is a rich altar-tomb to his memory, with the recumbent figures of him and his first wife, Anneys.
— from London Signs and Inscriptions by Philip Norman
[2] All these calumnies, and others still worse, are recorded by pagan writers concerning the early Christians.
— from Valeria, the Martyr of the Catacombs: A Tale of Early Christian Life in Rome by W. H. (William Henry) Withrow
The notion that there is anything of greater value to be had in the church than elsewhere cannot be defended.
— from Is The Bible Worth Reading, and Other Essays by L. K. (Lemuel Kelley) Washburn
[185] Sometimes "Church" denotes a particular denomination of Christians, as the Presbyterian Church, the Episcopal Church.
— from Exposition of the Apostles' Creed by James Dodds
Tom’s face was turned toward her: it had the pallor of coming death upon it, but her propinquity seemed to check the ebbing current of vitality, and to restore the poor youth in some measure to himself.
— from Dust: A Novel by Julian Hawthorne
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