dit-il enfin.--Je ne puis dire que j'aie pris beaucoup de poissons, répondit gaiement le gamin, mais au moins j'ai noyé assez de vers!
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

Don Pedro refuses, because he is not rich.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

[10] ; el café yungas de Bolivia, de semillas grandes; el de Martinica; el de Cayena, de semillas alargadas e irregulares; los de Puerto Rico y de la Habana, de color verde azulado.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

(The same course of development in India—quite independently, and consequently [Pg 208] of some demonstrative value—the same ideal driving to the same conclusion the decisive point reached five hundred years before the European era, or more precisely at the time of Buddha—it started in the Sankhyam philosophy, and then this was popularised through Buddha, and made into a religion.)
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The prudence, however, of Stilicho, his aversion to civil war, and his perfect knowledge of the weakness of the state, may countenance the suspicion, that domestic peace, rather than foreign conquest, was the object of his policy; and that his principal care was to employ the forces of Alaric at a distance from Italy.
— 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

With cardinals and ordinals the smaller number sometimes comes first with et ; as, iīs rēgiīs quadrāgintā annīs et ducentīs praeteritīs , RP .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

While the great Mr. Pott was dwelling upon this and other matters, enlivening the conversation from time to time with various extracts from his own lucubrations, a stern stranger, calling from the window of a stage-coach, outward bound, which halted at the inn to deliver packages, requested to know whether if he stopped short on his journey and remained there for the night, he could be furnished with the necessary accommodation of a bed and bedstead.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Canterbury, 41 Cape Bojador, 105 Cape de Verde, 106 Cape Finisterre, 270 , 469 , 478 , 502 , 505 , 510 , 515 , 521 Cape of Good Hope, 105 , 340 , 343 , 344 Cape St Vincent, 270 , 434 , 435 , 465 , 466 n., 469 , 478 , 502 , 503 , 508 , 510 Cardinal Infant, 243 , 318 , 319 , 335 Carew, Lord George, 202 Carleton, Sir Dudley, 128 , 168 , 172 , 173 , 174 , 176 , 177 , 180 , 185 , 190 , 192 , 193 , 197 , 212 ; on Grotius, 351 Carlisle, Earl of, 222 n., 227 n. Caron, Sir Noel, Dutch ambassador, 151-154 , 163 , 165 , 168-174 , 201 Carrick, Earl of, 225 n. Carteret, Captain, 291 , 327 Casaregi, on territorial sea, 558 Castile, 32 , 67 Castro, Francis Alphonso de, on dominion of sea, 341 Catalonia, 45 Cats, Dutch ambassador, 391 Cattegat, territoriality of, 653 Cavendish, 5 Cecil, Secretary Sir William, 88 , 90 , 91 , 92 , 95 , 105 , 114 , 115 , 128 n., 133 , 204 Ceva, Cardinal de, 273 n. Ceylon, pearl fisheries, 560 , 697 Chaleurs, Bay of, 623 , 624 , 625 , 627 n., 628 , 629 , 630 , 692 Chamberlain, Joseph, 628 Champagne, on freedom of the sea, 595 , 596 Chancellor, 181 Channel, English, 9 , 18 , 19 , 21 , 29 , 42 , 43 , 209 , 247 , 250 , 266 , 269 , 270 , 276 , 327 , 407 , 465 ; extent of, 432 , 465 n. 506 n.; great avenue of commerce, 30 ; importance of command of, 30 ; fisheries in, 65 n., 68 , 544 ; licenses for fishing in, 65 ; disputes with French fishermen, 607 , 608 ; mid-line limit, 542 , 544 ; sovereignty over, 6 , 8 , 16 , 35 , 36 , 101 , 103 , 207 , 208 , 246 , 432 ; striking in, 117 , 212 , 469 , 470 Channel Islands, 29 , 36 , 103 Charles the Bold, 72 Charles I., 17 , 28 , 31 , 117 , 119 , 338 ; asked to free the seas of Hollander busses, 211 , 234 ; opinion on importance of fisheries, 213 ; initiates fishery association, 214 ; plan of, 215 , 216 ; lays scheme before Council in Scotland, 218 , 219 , 220 ; ill received in Scotland, 220 ; opposed by Scottish Parliament, 222 ; debates regarding, 224 ; his great anxiety for, 225 ; Scottish Commissioners appointed, 225 ; his letters on, 232 , 233 ; Royal Fishery Society established, 239 ; proceedings of, 241 ; misfortunes and failure of Fishery Society, 241-243 ; claim to sovereignty of sea, 10 , 11 , 119 , 209-212 , 251 , 258 ; proclamation regarding narrow seas and King’s Chambers, 251 ; draft proclamation re Sovereignty of Sea, 759 ; personal policy, 253 ; pretext for equipping a fleet, 253 ; deceives his Council, 255 ; secret agreement with Spain, 253 , 255 , 260 , 264 ; instructions to first ship-money fleet, 259 ; failure of his policy, 275 ; report of Admiralty as to employment of second ship-money fleet, 288 , 762 ; instructions regarding license money from foreign fishermen, 295 ; 780 proclamation forbidding unlicensed fishing by foreigners, 293 , 294 ; licenses to fishermen, 762 ; negotiations with Dutch as to unlicensed fishing, 305 , 306 ; tries surreptitiously to induce Dutch to accept licenses, 317 , 319 , 321 ; Dutch despatch a fleet to protect their fishermen, 321 ; general dissatisfaction with his actions, 324 ; his power on sea wanes, 328 ; pretensions to sovereignty of sea flouted by Dutch, 328 , 329 ; battle of Downs, 335 ; proceedings regarding Spanish fleet and Tromp, 331 , 336 Charles II., his efforts to develop fisheries, 441 ; Bill to encourage fisheries, 443 ; directed against foreigners, 444 , 444 n.; establishes the Royal Fishery, 446-448 ; failure of, 449 ; Dutch embassy, negotiations concerning fishery question, 449 , 450 , 451 , 455 ; tries to prevent Franco-Dutch treaty, 454 ; treaty with the United Provinces, 455 ; disputes about striking, 455 ; second Dutch war, 457 , 458 ; very popular, 458 ; course of, 459 ; terms of peace, 464 ; claim to exclusive fishing withdrawn, 464 ; question of striking, 464 , 465 ; extent of British seas, 465 , 466 ; licenses offered to Dutch fishermen, 460 ; De Witt’s proposals as to striking, 468 ; verbal arrangement with Louis as to striking, 471 , 471 n.; Triple Alliance, 474 ; secret treaty of Dover, 474 ; obtains a subsidy, 475 ; ill-feeling against Dutch fomented, 476 ; accuses De Witt of secret negotiations with Louis, 476 ; recall of Sir William Temple, 476 ; pretext for war in the “honour of the flag,” 476 ; sends his yacht
— from The Sovereignty of the Sea An Historical Account of the Claims of England to the Dominion of the British Seas, and of the Evolution of the Territorial Waters by Thomas Wemyss Fulton

if even I could now, my dear!" Pauline Romeyne left him upon a sudden, crying this.
— from The Certain Hour (Dizain des Poëtes) by James Branch Cabell

At the same time the principal daily papers repeated, day by day, on the first page and in large type, the text of these placards.
— from Belgians Under the German Eagle by Jean Massart

Military expenditures: 1.5% of GDP (2006) Transnational Issues Nigeria Disputes - international: Joint Border Commission with Cameroon reviewed 2002 ICJ ruling on the entire boundary and bilaterally resolved differences, including June 2006 Greentree Agreement that immediately cedes sovereignty of the Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon with a phase-out of Nigerian control within two years while resolving patriation issues; the ICJ ruled on an equidistance settlement of Cameroon-Equatorial Guinea-Nigeria maritime boundary in the Gulf of Guinea, but imprecisely defined coordinates in the ICJ decision and a sovereignty dispute between Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon over an island at the mouth of the Ntem River all contribute to the delay in implementation; only Nigeria and Cameroon have heeded the Lake Chad Commission's admonition to ratify the delimitation treaty which also includes the Chad-Niger and Niger-Nigeria boundaries Refugees and internally displaced persons: refugees (country of origin): 5,778 (Liberia) IDPs: undetermined (communal violence between Christians and Muslims since President OBASANJO's election in 1999; displacement is mostly short-term) (2007)
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

So the despondent players returned to Haddonfield, while Tom remained with Phil at the hotel.
— from A Quarter-Back's Pluck: A Story of College Football by Lester Chadwick

Holy, devout, pious, religious, godly.
— from A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseology by Richard Soule

Miss Cobbe, the destroying angel of Man’s rights, exclaimed at a meeting held in London, on the 13th of June, 1884, that “she regretted that she could not fight and pull down park railings to accomplish her object.”
— from John Bull's Womankind (Les Filles de John Bull) by Max O'Rell

In connection with this we may cite the Legis Rubriæ pars superstes , a beautifully lithographed fac-simile of this classic curiosity, and also by Dr. Adam Zinzow De Pelasgicis Romanorum Sacris , which is a treatise on those oldest of the Roman local legends which the author considers as Pelasgic.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 by Various

But how was she chagrined, when, in his stead, appeared Mr. Graham, who sprang into the carriage and took a seat beside her; saying to his wife's look of inquiry, that as John Jr. had concluded to go, Durward preferred riding on horseback with him, adding, in his usually polite way, "And I, you know, would always rather go with the ladies.
— from 'Lena Rivers by Mary Jane Holmes