This was printed in enormous type on paper so fresh that it was still wet, and there had been no time to add a word of comment.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Laid up within my dwelling lie Fruits of each sort which woods supply,— Food culled for thee in endless store From every tree on Pampá's shore.”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Among brothers and among sisters, the eldest always takes place; and in the succession of the paternal estate, every thing which cannot be divided, but must go entire to one person, such as a title of honour, is in most cases given to the eldest.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The opinion which changes the law is in one sense the opinion of the time when the law is actually altered; in another sense it has often been in England the opinion prevalent some twenty or thirty years before that time; it has been as often as not in reality the opinion, not of today, but of yesterday.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

[Pg 235] when affairs are administered with great care, and when the commerce with India and with Troglodytica has been so greatly increased? For formerly not even twenty vessels ventured to navigate the Arabian Gulf, or advance to the smallest distance beyond the straits at its mouth; but now large fleets are despatched as far as India and the extremities of Ethiopia, from which places the most valuable freights are brought to Egypt, and are thence exported to other parts, so that a double amount of custom is collected, arising from imports on the one hand, and from exports on the other.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

Eupatŏria, t. of Pontus, see Magnopolis, ii. 306 .
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

To whatever direction the shouts of the enemy, the cries of women and children, the crackling of the flames, and the crash of falling houses, had called their attention, thither, terrified at every incident, they turned their thoughts, faces, and eyes, as if placed by fortune to be spectators of their falling country, and as if left as protectors of no other of their effects, except their own persons: so much more to be commiserated than any others who were ever besieged, because, shut out from their country, they were besieged, beholding all their effects in the power of the enemy.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

Indeed, as I shall endeavor to show in what follows, we readily distinguish our sensations from one another when we have a precise knowledge that they are composite, as, for example, when we have become certain, by frequently repeated and invariable experience, that our present sensation arises from the simultaneous action of many independent stimuli, each of which usually excites an equally well-known individual sensation."
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

And the cases just given, more especially that of pigeons, seem to show that the characteristic differences which give value to each breed, and which have been accumulated by man's selection, have not generally first appeared at an early period of life, and have been inherited by the offspring at a corresponding not early period.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

TO them too the Austrian Quarrel was everything, their own poor Spanish Quarrel nothing; and the complaint they make of his Majesty is rather that he does not rush rapidly enough, with brandished sword, as well as with guineas raining from him, into this one indispensable business.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 13 by Thomas Carlyle

Twilight was creeping through the aisles, and a pilgrimage being not at all an easy thing, our peasant soon fell asleep over his prayer-book.
— from Legends of the Rhine by Wilhelm Ruland

Now I arrived at the spot where we had ran foul of another craft; and my father, with his pipe in his mouth and his “Take it coolly,” which so exasperated the other parties, stood as alive before me.
— from Jacob Faithful by Frederick Marryat

We have three times as many soldiers as the English, though of poorer stuff.
— from The Seats of the Mighty, Volume 5 by Gilbert Parker

As the conflict attracted the eyes and attention of the enemy to one particular spot, the walls were scaled in several places, by which means the soldiers easily entered the town.
— from The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36 by Livy

The pillar itself is either twisted or plain (see No. III., [PLATE LXXXIV.] ).
— from The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2: Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. by George Rawlinson

It was the 12th of January (they had set sail the 29th of December), when their barge broke the ice at ebb tide opposite Powhatan's settlement.
— from The Birth of the Nation, Jamestown, 1607 by Sara Agnes Rice Pryor

Fiscal year: 1 July - 30 June Communications Pakistan Telephones - main lines in use: 2.861 million (March 1999) Telephones - mobile cellular: 158,000 (1998) Telephone system: general assessment: the domestic system is mediocre, but improving; service is adequate for government and business use, in part because major businesses have established their own private systems; since 1988, the government has promoted investment in the national telecommunications system on a priority basis, significantly increasing network capacity; despite major improvements in trunk and urban systems, telecommunication services are still not readily available to the majority of the rural population domestic: microwave radio relay, coaxial cable, fiber-optic cable, cellular, and satellite networks international: satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 2 Indian Ocean); 3 operational international gateway exchanges (1 at Karachi and 2 at Islamabad); microwave radio relay to neighboring countries (1999) Radio broadcast stations: AM 27, FM 1, shortwave 21 (1998) Radios: 13.5 million (1997) Television broadcast stations: 22 (plus seven low-power repeaters) (1997)
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency