I shall need to devote the very closest thought to the situation which has arisen."
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

Nanganduy ang balbal ug dugù, The vampire craves blood.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The Greeks must recognise facts; must avoid offending Rome; but must do so by keeping to a position of strict legality, maintaining their rights, and neither flattering nor defying the victorious Commonwealth.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

[Clark, September 9, 1805] September 9th Monday 1805 a fair morning Set out early and proceeded on thro a plain as yesterday down the valley Crossed a large Scattering Creek on which Cotton trees grew at 11/2 miles, a Small one at 10 miles, both from the right, the main river at 15 miles & Encamped on a large Creek from the left which we call Travelers rest Creek.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

This day the Vánar chiefs will boast
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Yet did their valour create no pity, and the length of one day was not enough to satiate the thirst of the conqueror’s revenge, but the slaughter continued to the last drop of blood that was capable of being shed, and stopped not till it met with none but unarmed persons, old men, women, and children, of them to carry away to the number of thirty thousand slaves.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Monte Cristo gently laid his hand on the young girl’s arm, drew the velvet coverlet close to her throat, and said with a paternal smile: “My child, believe in my devotion to you as you believe in the goodness of Providence and the love of Maximilian.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Natura de te videtur conqueri posse, quod cum ab ea temperatissimum corpus adeptus sis, tam praeclarum a Deo ac utile donum, non contempsisti modo, verum corrupisti, sedasti, prodidisti, optimam temperaturam otio, crapula, et aliis vitae erroribus, &c. 1566 .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

“Besides,” said Dantès, “the various circumstances mentioned in the letter were wholly unknown to him.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

It appears that they were named literators by Messala Corvinus, in one of his letters, when he says, “that it does not refer to Furius Bibaculus, nor even to Sigida, nor to Cato, the literator,” 857 meaning, doubtless, that Valerius Cato was both a poet and an eminent grammarian.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

On entering the door the visitor confronts a relief figure, somewhat under life size, of St. James the Less, the garments of which are highly coloured, red and blue.
— from Galicia, the Switzerland of Spain by Annette M. B. Meakin

He mentions also that bubbles of soap and turpentine exhibit the same colours, which “vary according to the incidence of the sight and the position of the eye;” and he had seen a glass-blower blow bubbles of glass which burst, and displayed “the varying colours of the rainbow, which were exceedingly vivid.”
— from Curiosities of Science, Past and Present A Book for Old and Young by John Timbs

This story may also be told, when demonstrating the virtue consisting in habitual charity.
— from The Gâtakamâlâ; Or, Garland of Birth-Stories by Aryasura

The ninth tablet (9) discovers two vanquished Centaurs, and Lapithae in the act of dispatching their mongrel enemies.
— from How to See the British Museum in Four Visits by Blanchard Jerrold

At midnight he returns—a man, the good husband, the tender father; he slips into the conjugal bed, his imagination still afire with the illusive forms of the operatic nymphs, and so turns to the profit of conjugal love the world’s depravities, the voluptuous curves of Taglioni’s leg.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Wake Island, People Population: no indigenous inhabitants; note - there are 302 US Air Force personnel, civilian weather service personnel, and US and Thai contractors; population peaked about 1970 with over 1,600 persons during the Vietnam conflict *
— from The 1993 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Neither Hillyer nor Lagow proved to have any particular taste or special qualifications for the duties of the soldier, and the former resigned during the Vicksburg campaign; the latter I relieved after the battle of Chattanooga.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

The Duke took very civil notice of me.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys

The Savoyard Vicar was speaking for Jean-Jacques to posterity when he began his profession of faith with the words:— 'Je ne veux argumenter avec vous, ni même de tenter vous convaincre; il me suffit de vous exposer ce que je pense dans la simplicité de mon coeur.
— from Aspects of Literature by John Middleton Murry

Chloroform, of course, depressed the vasomotor center, but ether had no effect on this center, or slightly stimulated it.
— from Disturbances of the Heart Discussion of the Treatment of the Heart in Its Various Disorders, With a Chapter on Blood Pressure by Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas) Osborne