BIX is another good source of information for professional computer specialists.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

(10) From Prince Charles Stuart for political purposes.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

The fourth phase consisted simply in the substitution by the priests for the abstract or time-principles of the three great sovereigns of ancient times, Yao, Shun, and Yü.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

dearly, fondly, PP; cherli , S2.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

[20] En ese ramo hay mucho que progresar, dada la forma primitiva como se obtiene la pluma de garza.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

To create a briefer but even hotter flame, put celluloid such as you might find in an old comb, into a nest of plain or saturated paper which is to be fired by a candle.
— from Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States. Office of Strategic Services

This very awkward history of Mr Elliot was still, after an interval of several years, felt with anger by Elizabeth, who had liked the man for himself, and still more for being her father's heir, and whose strong family pride could see only in him a proper match for Sir Walter Elliot's eldest daughter.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

Nark , a person in the pay of the police; a common informer; one who gets his living by laying traps for publicans, &c. Sometimes called a “nose.”
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

So much for public conveyances,” said Lord Mowbray.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Adj. beautiful, beauteous; handsome; gorgeous; pretty; lovely, graceful, elegant, prepossessing; attractive &c. (inviting) 615; delicate, dainty, refined; fair, personable, comely, seemly; bonny
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

In 1222, he held an important provincial council at Oseney abbey, near Oxford, where he issued constitutions, famous as the first provincial canons still recognised as binding in our ecclesiastical courts.
— from The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by T. F. (Thomas Frederick) Tout

"A sound and finely practical commentary."— Saturday Review.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Daniel by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

_#_Inflation rate (consumer prices): 8.6% (1990) _#_Unemployment rate: 2.5% (1990) _#_Budget: revenues $38 billion; expenditures $38 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (1991) _#_Exports: $65 billion (f.o.b., 1990); commodities—textiles, clothing, electronic and electrical equipment, footwear, machinery, steel, automobiles, ships, fish; partners—US 30%, Japan 19% _#_Imports: $70 billion (c.i.f., 1990); commodities—machinery, electronics and electronic equipment, oil, steel, transport equipment, textiles, organic chemicals, grains; partners—Japan 27%, US 24% (1990) _#_External debt: $31.7 billion (1990) _#_Industrial production: growth rate 8.6% (1990 est.); accounts for about 45% of GDP _#_Electricity: 21,000,000 kW capacity; 85,000 million kWh produced, 1,970 kWh per capita (1990) _#_Industries: textiles, clothing, footwear, food processing, chemicals, steel, electronics, automobile production, ship building _#_Agriculture: accounts for 11% of GNP and employs 21% of work force (including fishing and forestry); principal crops—rice, root crops, barley, vegetables, fruit; livestock and livestock products—cattle, hogs, chickens, milk, eggs; self-sufficient in food, except for wheat; fish catch of 2.9 million metric tons, seventh-largest in world _#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $3.9 billion; non-US countries (1970-89), $3.0 billion _#_Currency: South Korean won (plural—won); 1 South Korean won (W) = 100 chon (theoretical) _#_Exchange rates: South Korean won (W) per US$1—718.14 (January 1991), 707.76 (1990), 671.46 (1989), 731.47 (1988), 822.57 (1987), 881.45 (1986), 870.02 (1985) _#_Fiscal year: calendar year _*
— from The 1991 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

_#_GDP: $255.9 billion, per capita $15,000; real growth rate 2.2% (1990) _#_Inflation rate (consumer prices): 6.9% (December 1990) _#_Unemployment rate: 9.2% (March 1991) _#_Budget: revenues $74.2 billion; expenditures $67.9 billion, including capital expenditures of NA (FY90) _#_Exports: $39.8 billion (f.o.b., FY90); commodities—metals, minerals, coal, wool, cereals, meat, manufacturers; partners—Japan 26%, US 11%, NZ 6%, South Korea 4%, Singapore 4%, UK, Taiwan, Hong Kong _#_Imports: $42.0 billion (f.o.b., FY90); commodities—manufactured raw materials, capital equipment, consumer goods; partners—US 24%, Japan 19%, UK 6%, FRG 7%, NZ 4% (1990) _#_External debt: $123.7 billion (September 1990) _#_Industrial production: growth rate - 1.8% (1990); accounts for 32% of GDP _#_Electricity: 38,000,000 kW capacity; 150,000 million kWh produced, 8,860 kWh per capita (1990) _#_Industries: mining, industrial and transportation equipment, food processing, chemicals, steel, motor vehicles _#_Agriculture: accounts for 5% of GNP and 37% of export revenues; world's largest exporter of beef and wool, second-largest for mutton, and among top wheat exporters; major crops—wheat, barley, sugarcane, fruit; livestock—cattle, sheep, poultry _#_Economic aid: donor—ODA and OOF commitments (1970-89), $10.4 billion _#_Currency:
— from The 1991 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

My prisms to-day are quite in their glory,' she writes; 'the atmosphere must be very clear, for the radiance is brighter than ever I saw it before;' and then she wonders whether the mansions in heaven will be draped in such brightness; and so to the last the gentle, bright, rainbow lady remained surrounded by kind and smiling faces, by pictures, by flowers, and with the light of her favourite prismatic colours shining round about the couch on which she lay.
— from A Book of Sibyls: Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen by Anne Thackeray Ritchie

the anguish of her heart, surely if a fervent prayer could save him, he would be saved yet.
— from It May Be True, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Wood, Henry, Mrs.