Being interrupted at supper with letters which brought yet worse news, he expressed no greater resentment, than only to threaten the rebels.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

A great hope had latterly germinated in Boldwood, whose unreasoning devotion to Bathsheba could only be characterized as a fond madness which neither time nor circumstance, evil nor good report, could weaken or destroy.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

There seems proof, too, that till the Paradiso was written Dante entertained no great respect for the Scala family ( Purg. xvi.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

He seemed somewhat apathetic in the search, as though he expected no great results from it.
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

Why not?” “Because there exists no greater rogue than he.”
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

I, the exhibiter now goes round to the back of the main compartment, and, unlocking another door there, displays clearly all the interior of the main compartment, by introducing a candle behind it and within it.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Among the collected notes written by him in the last ten years of the century and published by Reicke ( Lose Blätter , I. 129) the following appears:—‘The English nation ( gens ) regarded as a people ( populus ) and looked upon side by side with other races is, as a collection of individuals, of all mankind the most highly to be esteemed.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

Your rabbits fricaseed and chicken, With curious choice of dainty picking, Each night got ready at the Crown, With port and punch to wash ’em down.
— from A Poetical Cook-Book by Maria J. Moss

Industries: fishing, oil and gas production *Pacific Ocean, Communications Ports: Bangkok (Thailand), Hong Kong, Los Angeles (US), Manila (Philippines), Pusan (South Korea), San Francisco (US), Seattle (US), Shanghai (China), Singapore, Sydney (Australia), Vladivostok (Russia), Wellington (NZ), Yokohama (Japan) Telecommunications: several submarine cables with network nodal points on Guam and Hawaii *Pakistan, Geography Location: South Asia, along the Arabian Sea, between India and Afghanistan Map references: Asia, Standard Time Zones of the World Area: total area: 803,940 km2 land area: 778,720 km2 comparative area: slightly less than twice the size of California Land boundaries: total 6,774 km, Afghanistan 2,430 km, China 523 km, India 2,912 km, Iran 909 km Coastline: 1,046 km Maritime claims: contiguous zone: 24 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or the edge of continental margin exclusive economic zone: 200 nm territorial sea: 12 nm International disputes: status of Kashmir with India; border question with Afghanistan (Durand Line); water-sharing problems (Wular Barrage) over the Indus with upstream riparian India Climate: mostly hot, dry desert; temperate in northwest; arctic in north Terrain: flat Indus plain in east; mountains in north and northwest; Balochistan plateau in west Natural resources: land, extensive natural gas reserves, limited petroleum, poor quality coal, iron ore, copper, salt, limestone Land use: arable land: 26% permanent crops: 0% meadows and pastures: 6% forest and woodland: 4% other: 64% Irrigated land: 162,200 km2 (1989)
— from The 1993 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

They failed to produce the slightest excitement, not giving rise even to the feeling of buoyancy and exhilaration which is experienced from mountain air or a draught of spring water.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

Embryo , n. Germ, rudiment.
— 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

H IEROGLYPHICAL F RAGMENTS ; with some Remarks on E NGLISH G RAMMAR .
— from The Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and the Arts, July-December, 1827 by Various

New Zealand natural gas, iron ore, sand, coal, timber, hydropower, gold, limestone Nicaragua gold, silver, copper, tungsten, lead, zinc, timber, fish Niger uranium, coal, iron ore, tin, phosphates, gold, petroleum Nigeria natural gas, petroleum, tin, columbite, iron ore, coal, limestone, lead, zinc, arable land Niue fish, arable land Norfolk Island fish Northern Mariana Islands arable land, fish Norway petroleum, copper, natural gas, pyrites, nickel, iron ore, zinc, lead, fish, timber, hydropower Oman petroleum, copper, asbestos, some marble, limestone, chromium, gypsum, natural gas Pacific Ocean oil and gas fields, polymetallic nodules, sand and gravel aggregates, placer deposits, fish Pakistan land, extensive natural gas reserves, limited petroleum, poor quality coal, iron ore, copper, salt, limestone Palau forests, minerals (especially gold), marine products, deep-seabed minerals Palmyra Atoll terrestrial and aquatic wildlife Panama copper, mahogany forests, shrimp, hydropower Papua New Guinea gold, copper, silver, natural gas, timber, oil, fisheries Paracel Islands none Paraguay hydropower, timber, iron ore, manganese, limestone Peru copper, silver, gold, petroleum, timber, fish, iron ore, coal, phosphate, potash, hydropower, natural gas
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency