'I am not going to do either, not even to your Grandmother,' said Mr Inspector; 'but I mean to have it.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
Spiritu dissipavi, et nullo effuso cruore trementes expuli, sine ictu remanente Romane terre facie renovatâ.
— 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
They found his body very early yesterday morning in a deep excavation near East Kensington Station.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
15 Levantóla en sus brazos, tratando de reanimarla, pero ni el temblor de ella ni el desmayo cesaban, por lo cual resolvió sacarla de la capilla, a fin de que el aire fresco la reanimase.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós
The following verbs in -ēre have the perfect stem in -u- ( 874 ), and no perfect participle ( 907 ): arceō , check arcēre arcuī —— The compounds co-erceō and ex-erceō have e for a , and perfect participles co-ercitus and ex-ercitus . caleō , am warm calēre caluī —— candeō , glow white candēre canduī —— careō , have not carēre caruī —— doleō , ache dolēre doluī —— egeō , need egēre eguī —— The compound ind-igeō , ind-igēre , ind-iguī , —— , has i for e .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane
29. ANUNCIO DEL ESTRENO DE UNA ÓPERA TEATRO REAL La función de esta noche es Paolo e Francesca .
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler
Hay muchos discípulos en nuestra escuela?
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler
Hay discípulos y discípulas en nuestra escuela?
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler
She had done that exquisitely well, as she did everything, not even advising me that I was to be her errand boy on such an errand, trusting me to find out by accident, as I had, that I was to be my own executioner, was to spring my own guillotine.
— from The Lady and the Pirate Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive by Emerson Hough
‘When I lie down to-night, and my thoughts come back—as they will, for they do every night, even when I have not seen you—to this sad place, I may believe that there is no grief beyond this room, now, and its usual occupants, which preys on Little Dorrit’s mind?’
— from Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
Debt - external: $NA Economic aid - recipient: Guam receives large transfer payments from the US Federal Treasury ($143 million in 1997) into which Guamanians pay no income or excise taxes; under the provisions of a special law of Congress, the Guam Treasury, rather than the US Treasury, receives federal income taxes paid by military and civilian Federal employees stationed in Guam (2001 est.)
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
NA% Electricity - consumption: 184.5 million kWh (2000) Electricity - exports: 0 kWh note: electric power supplied by Italy (1999) Electricity - imports: 184.5 kWh note: electricity supplied by Italy (2000) Agriculture - products: wheat, grapes, corn, olives; cattle, pigs, horses, beef, cheese, hides Exports: trade data are included with the statistics for Italy Exports - commodities: building stone, lime, wood, chestnuts, wheat, wine, baked goods, hides, ceramics Imports: trade data are included with the statistics for Italy Imports - commodities: wide variety of consumer manufactures, food Debt - external: $NA Economic aid - recipient: $NA Currency: euro (EUR); Italian lira (ITL) Currency code: EUR; ITL Exchange rates: euros per US dollar - 1.1324 (January 2002), 1.1175 (2001), 1.08540 (2000), 0.93863 (1999); Italian lire per US dollar - 1,736.2 (1998), 1,703.1 (1997) Fiscal year: calendar year Communications San Marino Telephones - main lines in use: 18,000 (1998) Telephones - mobile cellular: 3,010 (1998) Telephone system: general assessment: adequate connections domestic: automatic telephone system completely integrated into Italian system international: connected to Italian international network Radio broadcast stations: AM 0, FM 3, shortwave 0 (1998) Radios: 16,000 (1997) Television broadcast stations: 1 (San Marino residents also receive broadcasts from Italy) (1997)
— from The 2002 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Debt - external: $NA Economic aid - recipient: $13 million; note -
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Comment une telle question, sous-introduite tout à [pg 855] coup dans un chapitre annexé à un grand Schema , le dessein de ceux qui nous ont été soumis, passerait avant tous les schemata déjà étudiés, avant toutes les autres questions déjà discutées, et non encore résolues par le Concile.
— from Letters From Rome on the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger
Yet this is not all the tale, for there are still the little understood hosts of sexually abnormal people and the monotonous misery of millions who do not die early nor end violently, but who are, nevertheless, devoid of the joys of a natural love life.
— from Woman and the New Race by Margaret Sanger
Debt - external: $NA Economic aid - recipient: $367 million (1997) Currency: Comptoirs Francais du Pacifique franc (XPF) Currency code: XPF Exchange rates:
— from The 2002 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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