This is the 28th June, 1729; King of Prussia is now at Magdeburg, reviewing his troops; within a hundred miles of these contested quag-countries: who can blame him that he flames up now into clear blaze of royal indignation?
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 06 by Thomas Carlyle

Electricity - consumption: 148.8 million kWh (1999) Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (1999) Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (1999) Agriculture - products: coconuts, cinnamon, vanilla, sweet potatoes, cassava (tapioca), bananas; broiler chickens; tuna fish Exports: $111 million (f.o.b., 1999) Exports - commodities: fish, cinnamon bark, copra, petroleum products (reexports) Exports - partners: France, UK, Netherlands, Italy, China, Germany, Japan Imports: $440 million (c.i.f., 1999) Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment, foodstuffs, petroleum products, chemicals Imports - partners: South Africa, UK, China, Singapore, France, Italy Debt - external: $240 million (1999 est.)
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Forget us not, in case we ne'er return. Junior .
— from The Belles of Canterbury A Chaucer Tale Out of School by Anna Bird Stewart

In the region in front of the primitive streak, where the first trace of the embryo will shortly appear, the layers at first undergo no important changes, except that the hypoblast becomes somewhat thicker.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 3 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Vertebrata by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

It remains for us now, in conclusion, to define the pleistocene, and to see in what relation it stands to the pleiocene period.
— from Cave Hunting Researches on the evidence of caves respecting the early inhabitants of Europe by William Boyd Dawkins

The carving of the archivolt is rich, mainly of foliage, but with two or three figures under niches introduced capriciously in its midst.
— from Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain by George Edmund Street

μελάντερον ἠύτε πίσσα' and from Latin poetry AA II 657-58 'nominibus mollire licet mala: fusca uocetur / nigrior Illyrica cui pice sanguis erit', Met XII 402-3 'totus pice nigrior atra, / candida cauda tamen', EP III iii 97 'sed neque mutatur [ uar fuscatur] nigra pice lacteus umor', Her XVIII 7 'ipsa uides caelum pice nigrius ', and Martial I cxv 4-5 'sed quandam uolo nocte nigriorem , / formica, pice , graculo, cicada'.
— from The Last Poems of Ovid by Ovid

Industries: fishing; tourism; processing of coconuts and vanilla, coir (coconut fiber) rope, boat building, printing, furniture; beverages Industrial production growth rate: NA% Electricity - production: 125 million kWh (1998) Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 100% hydro: 0% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (1998) Electricity - consumption: 116 million kWh (1998) Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (1998) Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (1998) Agriculture - products: coconuts, cinnamon, vanilla, sweet potatoes, cassava (tapioca), bananas; broiler chickens; tuna fish Exports: $91 million (f.o.b., 1998) Exports - commodities: fish, cinnamon bark, copra, petroleum products (reexports) Exports - partners: France, UK, Netherlands, Italy, China, Germany, Japan Imports: $403 million (c.i.f., 1998) Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment, foodstuffs, petroleum products Imports - partners: South Africa, UK, China, Singapore, France, Italy Debt - external: $149 million (1997 est.)
— from The 2000 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

356 There are a good many kinds of Pyrola; leaves mostly from the root; flowers usually nodding, in clusters, with bracted flower-stalks; sepals and petals five; stamens ten; capsule roundish, five-lobed, cobwebby on the edges.
— from Field Book of Western Wild Flowers by Margaret Armstrong