They being offended to see so much money go, and no debts of the publique’s paid, but all swallowed by a luxurious Court: which the King it is believed and hoped will retrench in a little time, when he comes to see the utmost of the revenue which shall be settled on him: he expecting to have his L1,200,000 made good to him, which is not yet done by above L150,000, as he himself reports to the House.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Can you quote any passages from Cædmon to show that Anglo-Saxon character was not changed but given a new direction?
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Fearless of scoffing, and of the ostent, let us take our stand, our ground, and never desert it, to confront the growing excess and arrogance of realism.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Mon activité s'articule désormais autour de trois pôles: - veille technologique et culturelle, - enseignement assisté par ordinateur, - création de pages littéraires pédagogiques (mise en ligne en février ou mars 2000 d'une oeuvre de Balzac, L'Illustre Gaudissart, avec notes de lecture préparées par des étudiants japonais en doctorat pendant l'année universitaire 1999).
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

In Athens, the shadow is equal to three fourths of the length of the gnomon; at Rhodes to five sevenths; at Tarentum, to nine elevenths; at Alexandria, to three fifths; and so at other places it is found that the shadows of equinoctial gnomons are naturally different from one another.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

They give, as nature does, a form to matter, but they give it a more propitious form.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

And Chia Lien, on his return to his quarters, communicated the issue to lady Feng; whereupon lady Feng at once sent some one to go and notify dame Chou.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

Chem., 1919, XXXVIII, 305. Harvey, G. : A New Discourse of the Smallpox and Malignant Fevers with an Exact Discovery of the Scurvy, London, 1685.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

She passed for an accomplished girl, and no doubt thought herself one, as she was, judged by any standard near her.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

480 Besides to give a Kingdom hath been thought Greater and nobler done, and to lay down Far more magnanimous, then to assume.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment, fuels, metals; foodstuffs Imports - partners: US, Singapore, Japan, South Korea (2006) Economic aid - recipient: $23.46 million (2005) Debt - external: $0 (FY99/00) Market value of publicly traded shares: $NA Currency (code): US dollar (USD) Currency code: USD Exchange rates: the US dollar is used Communications Palau Telephones - main lines in use: 6,700 (2002) Telephones - mobile cellular: 1,000 (2002) Telephone system: general assessment: NA domestic: NA international: country code - 680; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean) Radio broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 4, shortwave 1 (2001) Radios: 12,000 (1997) Television broadcast stations: 1 (cable) (2005) Televisions: 11,000 (1997)
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Telephone system: general assessment: NA domestic: NA international: satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean)
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

I did not want to go anywhere, neither did I want to see any one, everything looked dark and gloomy to me.
— from The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand by Ray Vaughn Pierce

From this moment armed strife was inevitable, though the Pg 728 British Government and nation do not seem to have realized the fact.
— from A History of England Eleventh Edition by Charles Oman

Fiscal year: 1 April - 31 March Communications Anguilla Telephones - main lines in use: 4,974 (2000) Telephones - mobile cellular: 1,629 (2000) Telephone system: general assessment: NA domestic: modern internal telephone system international: microwave radio relay to island of Saint Martin (Guadeloupe and Netherlands Antilles) Radio broadcast stations: AM 5, FM 6, shortwave 1 (1998) Radios: 3,000 (1997)
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

He then reverted to his expedition to Syria, and declared that the grand object of the expedition to Egypt was to shake the power of England in the four quarters of the world, by effecting a revolution capable of changing the whole face of the East, and giving a new destiny to India.
— from Memoirs of the life, exile, and conversations of the Emperor Napoleon. (Vol. III) by Las Cases, Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné, comte de

| [ line ] | Written first in Greeke, and now | done in English | [ line. ]
— from The Early Oxford Press A Bibliography of Printing and Publishing at Oxford, '1468'-1640; With Notes, Appendixes and Illustrations by Falconer Madan

The practice was to stop the engine entirely a considerable time before the vessel reached the point of mooring, in order to allow for the gradual and natural diminution of her speed.
— from James Watt by Andrew Carnegie