GORCROW, carrion crow.
— from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

They ate together in great content, clearing the beggingbowl.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

The people of a free commonwealth, who have taken such care that their laws should be the result of general consent, cannot be so senseless as to suffer their executory system to be composed of persons on whom they have no dependence, and whom no proofs of the public love and confidence have recommended to those powers, upon the use of which the very being of the state depends.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

One government can collect and avail itself of the talents and experience of the ablest men, in whatever part of the Union they may be found.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

No good can come of such methods, for there are no short cuts to excellence.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

the Gillies Coffee Co.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

[39] This plebiscite is the most important of the concessions accorded to Germany in the Allies' Final Note, and one for which Mr. Lloyd George, who never approved the Allies' policy on the Eastern frontiers of Germany, can claim the chief credit.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

One day Ellen had ridden near her usual time, when a young lady with whom she attended a German class came up to where she was resting.
— from The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner

The Grand Canal; Campo S. Giacomo; Piazza S. Marco; Church and Piazza of SS.
— from The Venetian School of Painting by Evelyn March Phillipps

Now it is full of glass cases containing rubbish, and only interesting from the large model of the Siege of the Residency, the red and green flags showing in what close proximity the armies were.
— from Forty Thousand Miles Over Land and Water The Journal of a Tour Through the British Empire and America by Ethel Gwendoline Vincent

President Frederick CHILUBA (since 2 November 1991); Vice President Enoch KAVINDELE (since 4 May 2001); note - the president is both the chief of state and head of government head of government: President Frederick CHILUBA (since 2 November 1991); Vice President Enoch KAVINDELE (since 4 May 2001); note - the president is both the chief of state and head of government cabinet: Cabinet appointed by the president from among the members of the National Assembly elections: president elected by popular vote for a five-year term; election last held 18 November 1996 (next to be held NA October 2001); vice president appointed by the president election results: Frederick CHILUBA reelected president; percent of vote - Frederick CHILUBA 72.5%, Dean MUNGO'MBA 12.6%, Humphrey MULEMBA 7%, Akashambatwa LEWANIKA 4.7%, Chama CHAKOMBOKA 3.2% Zimbabwe: chief of state: Executive President Robert Gabriel MUGABE (since 31 December 1987); Co-Vice Presidents Simon Vengai MUZENDA (since 31 December 1987) and Joseph MSIKA (since 23 December 1999); note - the president is both the chief of state and head of government head of government:
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Unawed, in his quarters at Pleurs, Foch wrote the following order for the morrow:—“The General Commanding counts on all the troops of the 9th Army exerting the greatest activity and the utmost energy to extend and maintain beyond dispute the results obtained over a hard-pressed and venturesome enemy.”
— from The Battle of the Marne by G. H. (George Herbert) Perris

When a considerable number of Englishmen talk of the grave contending claims of our friendship with Japan and our friendship with America, when they finally tend in a sort of summing up to dwell on the superior virtues of Japan, I may be permitted to make a single comment.
— from What I Saw in America by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Already the British committee had been consulted by the Government concerning certain important matters affecting the mission fields and their problems arising from the war.
— from Religion and the War by Yale University. Divinity School

Glorious in golden clothing comes The great drum-major with his drums And sun-smit brass of trumpets; then The scarlet wall of marching men, Midmost of which great Mavors sets The colours girt with bayonets.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari Volume 98, January 4, 1890 by Various