VIII Kai toinyn ho logos hêkein eoiken ho peri tês threpseôs, hos dê loipos esti kai tritos hôn ex archês prouthemetha.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

“I see a light a-comin’ roun’ de p’int bymeby, so I wade’ in en shove’ a log ahead o’ me en swum more’n half way acrost de river, en got in ’mongst de drift-wood, en kep’ my head down low, en kinder swum agin de current tell de raff come along.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

“I left them alone together till midnight, so I cannot say what further converse they may have had on the subject, but three or four days later everybody knew that you were imprisoned in the tower.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

[Jose Eduardo DOS SANTOS], ruling party in power since 1975; Social Renewal Party or PRS [disputed leadership: Eduardo KUANGANA, Antonio MUACHICUNGO] note: about a dozen minor parties participated in the 1992 elections but only won a few seats and have little influence in the National Assembly Anguilla Anguilla United Party or AUP [Hubert HUGHES]; The United Front or UF [Osbourne FLEMING, Victor BANKS], a coalition of the Anguilla Democratic Party or ADP and the Anguilla National Alliance or ANA Antigua and Barbuda Antigua Labor Party or ALP [Lester Bryant BIRD]; Barbuda People's Movement or BPM [Thomas H. FRANK]; United Progressive Party or UPP [Baldwin SPENCER] (a coalition of three opposition parties - United National Democratic Party or UNDP, Antigua Caribbean Liberation Movement or ACLM, and Progressive Labor Movement or PLM)
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

When I am very weary with hard thought, And yet the question burns and is not quenched, My heart grows cool when to remembrance wrought That thou who know'st the light-born answer sought Know'st too the dark where the doubt lies entrenched— Know'st with what seemings I am sore perplexed, And that with thee I wait, nor needs my soul be vexed.
— from A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul by George MacDonald

LIEUT.-GENERAL SIR DE LACY EVANS, K.C.B., &c. LIEUT.-GENERAL SIR DE LACY EVANS.
— from A Soldier's Experience; or, A Voice from the Ranks Showing the Cost of War in Blood and Treasure. A Personal Narrative of the Crimean Campaign, from the Standpoint of the Ranks; the Indian Mutiny, and Some of its Atrocities; the Afghan Campaigns of 1863 by T. (Timothy) Gowing

A. Schebest, a. d. Leben e. Künstlerin, p. 202.] 57 ( return ) [ Castil-Blaze, Molière Musicien, I., pp. 268, 323.
— from Life of Mozart, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Otto Jahn

"What's all the excitement?" demanded Len, ever keen for local news.
— from The Grammar School Boys in Summer Athletics by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock