This is the end of Prime Minister, Cardinal Archbishop Lomenie de Brienne.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Geraint and Enid O purblind race of miserable men, How many among us at this very hour Do forge a life-long trouble for ourselves, By taking true for false, or false for true; Here, through the feeble twilight of this world Groping, how many, until we pass and reach That other, where we see as we are seen!
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

She eyes our plates nervously: "I see you don't like the meat?...
— from The Bet, and other stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

However this may be, whether we conceive the nervous action of which pain is an immediate consequent or concomitant as merely excessive in quantity, or in some way dis [185] cordant or disorganised in quality, it is obvious that neither explanation can furnish us with any important practical guidance: since we have no general means of ascertaining, independently of our experience of pain itself, what nervous actions are excessive or disorganised: and the cases where we have such means do not present any practical problems which the theory enables us to solve.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

EXAMPLESS, without example or parallel.
— from Every Man in His Humor by Ben Jonson

But the truth is, that Plato in his argument for the immortality of the soul has collected many elements of proof or persuasion, ethical and mythological as well as dialectical, which are not easily to be reconciled with one another; and he is as much in earnest about his doctrine of retribution, which is repeated in all his more ethical writings, as about his theory of knowledge.
— from Phaedo by Plato

The day passed in the exercise of petty tyranny on the part of Madame Cheron, and in mournful regret and melancholy anticipation on that of Emily, who, when her aunt retired to her apartment for the night, went to take leave of every other room in this her dear native home, which she was now quitting for she knew not how long, and for a world, to which she was wholly a stranger.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

For how can we have any experience or perception of an absolute void?
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

A partial assimilation, however, was the farthest stage to which they could attain; with the exception of pharmacology, the Arabians made practically no independent additions to medicine.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

Indubitably in consequence of the reiterated examples of poets in the delirium of the frenzy of attachment or in the abasement of rejection invoking ardent sympathetic constellations or the frigidity of the satellite of their planet.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Its circular wall, which may be from 9 to 20 feet thick, is carried up solid for about 10 feet, except where it is pierced by the entrance, or partially hollowed by the construction within its thickness of oblong chambers with rudely-vaulted roofs.
— from Scotland in Pagan Times; The Iron Age by Joseph Anderson

The 24 th M. de Langeron , the Marquess de Pilles and the Sheriffs, publish an Ordinance at my Instance, commanding all those who have taken into their Possession the Keys of Houses, or the Effects of Persons deceased, or who have had them put into their Hands in Trust, of what Nature soever they are, to appear within twenty four Hours at the Town-House, and make Declaration thereof before the Commissaries de Police , that the same may be properly secured.
— from A brief Journal of what passed in the City of Marseilles, while it was afflicted with the Plague, in the Year 1720 by Pichatty de Croislainte

See Moulton-Barrett, Elizabeth ——, George, 16 , 50 ——, Henrietta (Mrs. Surtees Cook), 16 , 50 ; marriage, 121 ; affection for sister, 129 ; 137 , 164 , 192 ——, Mrs. (mother), 18 , 21 “Battle of Marathon,” 20 “Beatrice Signorini,” 237 , 267 “Bells and Pomegranates,” 14 , 39 , 67 , 68 “Ben Karshook’s Wisdom,” 158 Berdoe, Dr., commentary on "Paracelsus," 37 “Bertha in the Lane,” 46 , 71 “Bishop Blougram’s Apology,” 205 Blagden, Isabella, friendship with Brownings, 111 , 112 , 178 , 182 , 184 , 190 , 191 , 197 , 200 , 201 , 207 , 225 ; death, 229 Blessington, Lady, 33 , 113 , 138 “Blot in the ’Scutcheon, A,” 69 “Book of the Poets, The,” 64 , 206 Boyd, Hugh Stuart, tutor, 22 ; letters from Elizabeth Barrett, 25 , 45 , 53 , 55 , 63 , 64 , 68 , 73 , 89 Bronson, Mrs. Arthur (Katherine DeKay), friendship with Browning, 242 , 273 ; letters from Browning, 243 , 248 , 249 , 252-260 , 265 , 271 , 272 , 277-286 , 291 , 292 ; hospitality, 242 , 274-276 ; entertains Browning in Asolo, 286 , 287 , 290 ; letters from Robert Barrett Browning, 293-294 ; letter from Sarianna Browning, 295 Bronson, Edith (Contessa Rucellai), 275 , 280 Brooks, Rev. Dr. Phillips, 211 , 212 Browning, Mrs. (mother), 4-6 , 38 ——, Elizabeth Barrett, birth, 16 ; childhood, 17 , 19 ; ancestry, 17 , 18 ; first literary work, 20 ; accident to, 21 ; studies, 22 ; tastes, 23 , 24 ; removal to Sidmouth, 24 ; translation of "Prometheus Bound," 44 ; removal to London, 45 ; [Pg 298] fugitive poems, 46-48 , 53 ; Hebrew Bible, 49 ; definite periods in her life, 50 ; change of residence, 54 , 56 ; notable friends, 58 , 59 ; publication of "The Seraphim," 56 ; literary criticisms, 60 , 61 , 67 , 68 ; goes to Torquay, 59 ; personal appearance, 58 ; death of brother, 62 ; returns to England, 63 ; translations from Greek, 64 ; description of her room, 65 ; refusal to meet Browning, 65 ; publication of two volumes of poems, 71 ; literary reputation established, 71 , 72 ; first letter from Browning, 73 , 74 ; correspondence of poets, 74-89 ; meets Browning, 80 ; lyrics, 83 , 84 ; marriage, 87 , 89 ; will, 93 ; lyrics, 100 , 101 ; mentioned for Laureateship, 121 , 122 ; books read by, 143 ; genius for friendship, 148 ; comment on dress, 151 ; description of, 153 , 179 ; souvenir locket, 153 ; views on life, 159 ; appreciation of Tennyson, 166 ; success of "Aurora Leigh," 174-176 ; American appreciation, 187 ; ill health, 193 , 195 ; closing days, 196 ; last words, 197 ; burial, 197 ; tomb, 200 ; tablet on Casa Guidi to her memory, 218 , 264 ; Tauchnitz edition of poems, 227 Browning, Reuben (uncle), 8 ——, Robert (father), character and qualities, 4-6 ; removal to Paris, 132 ; talent for caricature, 137 ; death, 210 ——, Robert (grandfather), 4 ——, Robert, ancestry of, 4-6 ; birth, 4 ; childhood and early tastes, 6-8 ; first literary work, 7 ; home atmosphere, 10 , 11 ; school, 12 ; influenced by Byron and Shelley, 13 , 14 ; juvenile verses, 14 ; publication of "Pauline," 14 ; visit to Russia, 27 , 28 ; meets Wordsworth, Landor, Dickens, and Leigh Hunt, 30 , 32 ; personal appearance, 31 ; writes play for Macready, 33 ; visit to Venice, 35 , 36 ; removal to Hatcham, 38 ; English friends and social life, 38-41 ; hears of Elizabeth Barrett, 41 ; visit to Italy, 70 , 71 ; return to England, 71 ; correspondence of the poets, 74-89 ; first meeting with Miss Barrett, 80 ; marriage, 87 , 89 ; sees "Sonnets from the Portuguese," 109 ; lyrics, 120 , 121 , 152 ; keynote of his art, 122-125 ; interpretation of Shelley, 133 , 134 ; Fisher’s portrait of, 153 ; Page’s portrait of, 155 ; literary standing, 172 ; finds "Old Yellow Book," 181 ; homage to Landor, 183 ; leaves Florence forever, 200 ; returns to London, 200 ; takes London house, 202 ; literary work, 203-207 ; extension of social activities, 206 , 207 ; friendship with Jowett, 209 ; meeting with Tennyson, 210 ; death of father, 210 ; Oxford conferred degree of M.A., 211 ; made Honorary Fellow of Balliol College, 211 ; new six-volume edition of poems, 213 ; dedication to Tennyson, 213 ; success of "The Ring and the Book," 214-215 ; comparison of character of Pompilia to that of his wife, 219 ; visits Scotland with the Storys, 221-222 ; conversation and personal charm, 222-224 ; with Milsand in "Red Cotton Night-cap Country," 224-226 ; prepares Tauchnitz edition of Mrs. Browning’s poems, 227 ; friendship with Domett, 228 ; relations with Tennyson, 230-232 ;
— from The Brownings, Their Life and Art by Lilian Whiting

This explanation of the increase of crime in summer contains so many elements of probability, that it has come to be rather widely accepted by students of criminal phenomena.
— from Crime and Its Causes by William Douglas Morrison

Without discrimination, at such times, he applies the rawhide, urging the slaves forward with shouts, and occasional expressions of profanity, while the old man laughs, and commends him as a thorough-going boy.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

Original of the most famous pirates of the coasts of America—Famous exploit of Pierre le Grand 34 [vi] CHAPTER V.
— from The Pirates of Panama or, The Buccaneers of America; a True Account of the Famous Adventures and Daring Deeds of Sir Henry Morgan and Other Notorious Freebooters of the Spanish Main by A. O. (Alexandre Olivier) Exquemelin

Occasionally he wearies the reader by tedious enumerations of plants, lacking indeed reticence and tact and selection in many of his descriptions, but, as a rule, he is very pleasant when he is babbling of green fields.
— from Reviews by Oscar Wilde

The extraordinary expression of physical pain infused into the heads of the two thieves, one on each side of Christ, together with the energy of their efforts to detach themselves from their awful position, will cause a shudder to creep over even the most phlegmatic person.
— from Van Dyck by Percy Moore Turner

Airports - with unpaved runways: total: 10 914 to 1,523 m: 2 under 914 m: 8 (2009) Roadways: total: 4,160 km country comparison to the world: 155 paved: 1,011 km unpaved: 3,149 km (2000) Ports and terminals: Cap-Haitien Military ::Haiti Military branches: no regular military forces - small Coast Guard; the regular Haitian Armed Forces (FAdH) - Army, Navy, and Air Force - have been demobilized but still exist on paper until or unless they are constitutionally abolished (2009)
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Before re-opening the great campaign, Buonaparte received the submission and explanation of the Elector of [Pg 244] Saxony, who truly stated that Prussia had forced him to take part in the war.
— from The History of Napoleon Buonaparte by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart