It is united with Molise to form a compartimento , comprising the four provinces of Aquila degli Abruzzi, Campobasso, Chicti, and Teramo.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

That great class to which they had risen, and now belonged, demanded a certain candour, a still more certain reticence.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

Ia [469] THE SAME, WITH ANOTHER DRESSING, A CABBAGE CHARTREUSE ALIAS: TRITURA UNDE PERFUNDES CACCABINAM CRUSH WHATEVER QUANTITY OF LEAVES IS REQUIRED WITH CHERVIL AND ONE AND A QUARTER PART OF LAUREL BERRIES, A MEDIUM-SIZED BOILED CABBAGE, CORIANDER LEAVES, DISSOLVE WITH ITS OWN JUICE, STEAM IN THE HOT ASHES, BUT FIRST PLACE IN A MOULD [when stiff unmould on a platter] DECORATE, POUR UNDER A WELL-SEASONED SAUCE, AND SO SERVE [1].
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

In like manner too, he that tastes of every pleasure and abstains from none comes to lose all self-control; while he who avoids all, as do the dull and clownish, comes as it were to lose his faculties of perception: that is to say, the habits of perfected Self-Mastery and Courage are spoiled by the excess and defect, but by the mean state are preserved.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

And ideas, as we have said before, he defines as certain causes and principles, owing to which it is that such and such things are by nature what they are.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

So I took coach, and set Povy down at Charing Cross, and took my wife up, and calling at the New Exchange at Smith’s shop, and kissed her pretty hand, and so we home, and there able to do nothing by candlelight, my eyes being now constantly so bad that I must take present advice or be blind.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

“In a more general way of being of use, all our men of the Special Crimes section on duty at Charing Cross and Victoria have orders to take careful notice of anybody they may see with him.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

As in all mountainous regions there are a great number of those unfortunate idiots who, when fully developed, are called cretins, and in their milder form are semi-human, but do not possess intelligence enough to earn their own living.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

They must inevitably have been destroyed, if the marshal of Romania had not displayed a cool courage and consummate skill; uncommon in all ages, but most uncommon in those times, when war was a passion, rather than a science.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Economic aid - recipient: $245.5 million (1995) Currency: dram (AMD) Currency code: AMD Exchange rates: drams per US dollar - 554.29 (1 February 2001), 539.53 (2000), 535.06 (1999), 504.92 (1998), 490.85 (1997), 414.04 (1996)
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The descriptions of Denver and Central City, and the account of the Pueblos of New Mexico, interested us especially—the former for its manner, the latter for its interesting and curious facts.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 17, April, 1873 to September, 1873 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

His wife and daughters are completely carried away by their good fortune, and look with disdain upon all who are not their equals or superiors in wealth.
— from The Secrets of the Great City A Work Descriptive of the Virtues and the Vices, the Mysteries, Miseries and Crimes of New York City by James Dabney McCabe

I had not been in his presence two minutes before I congratulated myself on my good fortune in having "clicked" for so delightful a company commander as Captain Andrews.
— from At Ypres with Best-Dunkley by Thomas Hope Floyd

The materials used here for the decorating are chiefly citron and maraschino cherries, both of which may be cut into a variety of shapes.
— from Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 4: Salads and Sandwiches; Cold and Frozen Desserts; Cakes, Cookies and Puddings; Pastries and Pies by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

Economic aid - donor: since its founding in 1971, the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development has given about $5.2 billion in aid to 56 countries (2004) Currency (code): Emirati dirham (AED) Currency code: AED Exchange rates: Emirati dirhams per US dollar - 3.673 (2006), 3.6725 (2005), 3.6725 (2004), 3.6725 (2003), 3.6725 (2002), note, officially pegged to the US dollar since February 2002
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

“Here he is,” said the seconds, who soon descried a caleche coming along the road; it was drawn by four horses, and there were two postilions.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Then one day a chap cruising about in a yacht had a fancy to see if my atoll still existed.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The trade was thus carried on, with all its historic inhumanity, by the sires and grandsires of the very men and women, who, for thirty years, have been denouncing slavery as a sin against God, and slaveholders as the vilest class of men and tyrants who ever disgraced a civilised community; and the very wealth in which, in a large degree, these agitators now revel, has descended to them as the fruit of the slave trade in which their fathers grew fat.
— from History of American Abolitionism Its four great epochs, embracing narratives of the ordinance of 1787, compromise of 1820, annexation of Texas, Mexican war, Wilmot proviso, negro insurrections, abolition riots, slave rescues, compromise of 1850, Kansas bill of 1854, John Brown insurrection, 1859, valuable statistics, &c., &c., &c., together with a history of the Southern Confederacy. by F. G. (Felix Gregory) De Fontaine

“Look here, Wylie,” dapper Ambrose Carver cried angrily, “if you think—” The light in the control-room snapped off.
— from You're on the Air by William Heyliger