Moldova Geography Location: Eastern Europe, northeast of Romania Geographic coordinates: 47 00 N, 29 00 E Map references:
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

o decus aetherium, terrarum gloria quondam, 175 te tuus Oceanus natali gurgite lassum excipit et notis Hispania proluit undis.
— from Claudian, volume 1 (of 2) With an English translation by Maurice Platnauer by Claudius Claudianus

Browne had not slept since 7 o'clock on the previous morning, [282] and had a bad touch of gas, like everyone else near headquarters.
— from With Cavalry in 1915 The British Trooper in the Trench Line, Through the Second Battle of Ypres by Frederic Coleman

Quand l'imagination a beaucoup à peindre; quand sans cesse elle a besoin de tableaux brillans et variés, il lui faut, pour développer avantageusement toutes ses richesses, une grande liberté; et elle ne peut par conséquent s'accommoder d'une double entrave, dont l'effet infaillible seroit d'éteindre son feu.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III by Richard Hakluyt