“And it is beyond all understanding,” she thought, “why God gives beauty, this graciousness, and sad, sweet eyes to weak, unlucky, useless people—why they are so charming.”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

While the old woman spoke with all the prudence which age and experience gave, a small ship entered the port on board of which were an Alcalde and his alguazils, and this was what had happened.
— from Candide by Voltaire

I'll deliver all; And promise you calm seas, auspicious gales, And sail so expeditious that shall catch Your royal fleet far off.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Chapter 10 There was no way of getting into or out of the top garden at San Salvatore except through the two glass doors, unfortunately side by side, of the dining-room and the hall.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

I’ll deliver all; And promise you calm seas, auspicious gales, And sail so expeditious, that shall catch 315 Your royal fleet far off.
— from The Tempest The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by William Shakespeare

These glorious achievements were carefully recorded in the public acts of the empire; and that he might omit no circumstance of infamy, he received from the common fund of gladiators a stipend so exorbitant that it became a new and most ignominious tax upon the Roman people.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Then they hailed her sweet and goodly, and so she entered the darksome gate-way and came within the Niblung Burg.
— from The Story of Sigurd the Volsung by William Morris

[Pg 27] sang the choir as Job, dressed in a neat new suit of gray and "store" shirt, entered the church, making a way for Andy Malden, who, for the first time in untold years, had crossed the threshold of the meeting-house.
— from The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras by Frederick Vining Fisher

" "Go and sleep somewhere else, then," ses Dixon.
— from Dixon's Return Odd Craft, Part 10. by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

I long To heare the story of your life; which must Take the eare strangely Pro. I'le deliuer all, And promise you calme Seas, auspicious gales, And saile, so expeditious, that shall catch Your Royall fleete farre off: My Ariel; chicke That is thy charge: Then to the Elements Be free, and fare thou
— from The Tempest by William Shakespeare

" There was nothing bolshevik about a glittering limousine that drew up at the corner of Gissing and Swinburne streets early that afternoon.
— from The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley

Like Bishop Barnes in England wanting to analyse the Consecrated Host, Edison was reported in America as having said that he would find out if there was a soul by some scientific test: Any philosophic Chinaman would know what to think of a man who said, "I have got a new gun that will shoot a hole through your memory of last Monday," or "I have got a saw sharp enough to cut up the cube root of 666," or "I will boil your affection for Aunt Susan until it is quite liquid."
— from Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Maisie Ward

We face other important domestic needs: to continue responsibility for the disadvantaged; to provide the capital needed by our cities and our transportation systems; to protect our environment; to revitalize American industry; and to increase the export of American goods and services so essential to the creation of jobs and a trade surplus.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

Agriculture - products: cotton, groundnuts, sorghum, millet, wheat, gum arabic, sesame; sheep Exports: total value: $500 million (f.o.b., 1996 est.) commodities: cotton 44%, livestock/meat 13%, gum arabic 11%, sesame 10% partners : Egypt 33.3%, Saudi Arabia 16.6%, Japan 13.4%, Italy 12% (1995) Imports: total value: $1 billion (1996 est.) commodities: foodstuffs, petroleum products, manufactured goods, machinery and equipment, medicines and chemicals, textiles partners : EU 29.4%, US 17.6%, Saudi Arabia 8.7%, Egypt 6.3% (1995) Debt - external: $18.5 billion (1996 est.)
— from The 1997 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Another eminent preacher, Mr. C. H. Spurgeon, wrote, not openly in the Times as Dr. Parker did, but in The Sword and Trowel thus: "We should like to see established a system of universal application, which would give a sound Secular education to children, and leave the religious training to the home and the agencies of the Church of Christ."
— from English Secularism: A Confession Of Belief by George Jacob Holyoake

Electricity-capacity: 500,000 kW (1995) Electricity-production: 1.305 billion kWh (1995) Electricity-consumption per capita: 43 kWh (1995) Agriculture-products: cotton, groundnuts, sorghum, millet, wheat, gum arabic, sesame; sheep Exports: total value: $620 million (f.o.b., 1996) commodities: cotton 23%, sesame 22%, livestock/meat 13%, gum arabic 5% (1996) partners: Saudi Arabia 20%, UK 14%, China 11%, Italy 8% (1996)
— from The 1998 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency