"That's the nuisance in not knowing every language," Conseil replied, "or the drawback in not having one universal language!" "Which would all go out the window!"
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Ah! why did I not hide him from the moon?
— from Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act by Oscar Wilde

When we think how different the body and actions of the child are, how different its nourishment, how differently foreign influences affect it, and how different its physical qualities are, we must see that its mental character is also completely different.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

The sole desire I now have is to cease from all these pains, and for the future, since here we have the sea before us, to sail on and on, 'stretched out in sleep,' like Odysseus, and so to find myself in Hellas."
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

Why deep is not high, and high is not deep?
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

They did not lay formal accusations to my charge, for they had no foundation for so doing; I never hide my head from the laws, and whoever would have questioned me, would have done himself a greater prejudice than me; they were only mute suspicions that were whispered about, which never want appearance in so confused a mixture, no more than envious or idle heads.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

They had therefore no sooner finished their tea than Sophia proposed to set out, the moon then shining extremely bright, and as for the frost she defied it; nor had she any of those apprehensions which many young ladies would have felt at travelling by night; for she had, as we have before observed, some little degree of natural courage; and this, her present sensations, which bordered somewhat on despair, greatly encreased.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Primroses glimmered around, many of them, and she stooped to the disturbing influence near her feet, she even picked one or two flowers, faintly remembering in the new colour of life, what had been.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

"He had," said Don Alvaro; "but though he had the name of being very droll, I never heard him say anything that had any drollery in it."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Till we depart intrude not here;) and The Excursion , book ix.
— from The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 6 (of 8) by William Wordsworth

35:8 We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he commanded us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, or our daughters; 35:9 nor to build houses for us to dwell in; neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed: 35:10 but we have lived in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
— from The World English Bible (WEB), Complete by Anonymous

To this day I never hear of some new frontier being developed without pricking up my ears and quivering like a circus horse when he hears a band play.
— from Land of the Burnt Thigh by Edith Eudora Kohl

Moreover, every other darky in Niggertown held these same instinctive beliefs.
— from Birthright A Novel by T. S. (Thomas Sigismund) Stribling

He was exhibited to an admiring throng of St. Paulites, who being disappointed in not having the big show of real live bandits, were obliged to content themselves with the dead one.
— from The Northfield Tragedy; or, the Robber's Raid A Thrilling Narrative; A history of the remarkable attempt to rob the bank at Northfield, Minnesota; the Cold-Blooded Murder of the Brave Cashier and an Inoffensive Citizen. The Slaying of Two of the Brigands. The Wonderful Robber Hunt and Capture Graphically Described. Biographies of the Victims, the Captors & the Notorious Younger and James Gang of Desperadoes by J. H. (Joseph Have) Hanson

As to tine notion of a life after death, I never had any direct or indirect expression from him; but I incline to the opinion that his hold upon this weakened with his years, as it is sadly apt to do with men who have read much and thought much: they have apparently exhausted their potentialities of psychological life.
— from Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship by William Dean Howells

Did I not hear that hare-brained youngster declare this evening that money was made round that it might roll.
— from At the Sign of the Cat and Racket by Honoré de Balzac

Holy See (Vatican City) Military Military - note: defense is the responsibility of Italy; Swiss Papal Guards are posted at entrances to the Vatican City to provide security and protect the Pope Holy See (Vatican City) Transnational Issues Disputes - international: none ====================================================================== @Honduras Honduras Introduction Background: Part of Spain's vast empire in the New World, Honduras became an independent nation in 1821.
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency