Yet thus much I can give you as a token Of his play's worth, no eggs are broken, Nor quaking custards with fierce teeth affrighted, Wherewith your rout are so delighted; Nor hales he in a gull old ends reciting, To stop gaps in his loose writing; With such a deal of monstrous and forced action, As might make Bethlem a faction: Nor made he his play for jests stolen from each table, But makes jests to fit his fable; And so presents quick comedy refined, As best critics have designed; The laws of time, place, persons he observeth, From no needful rule he swerveth.
— from Volpone; Or, The Fox by Ben Jonson

She was tumbled early, by accident or design, into a spacious closet of good old English reading, without much selection or prohibition, and browsed at will upon that fair and wholesome pasturage.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

The successors of Belisarius, eleven generals of equal rank, neglected to crush the feeble and disunited Goths, till they were roused to action by the progress of Totila and the reproaches of Justinian.
— 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

In a note on serpent worship in Malabar, 1 it is stated that “even to-day some corner of the garden of every respectable tarawad 2 is allotted for snakes.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

Good old English reading .
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

The lawn was full of them, big pots flanked each side of every step of the porch, pink or yellow clusters framed each window, and the terrace with the stone balustrade, which enclosed this pretty little dwelling, had a garland of enormous red bells, like drops of blood.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy: Why lov'st thou that which thou receiv'st not gladly, Or else receiv'st with pleasure thine annoy?
— from Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare

Oh! well did the tall stately girl of eighteen remember the tears shed with such wild passion of grief by the little girl of nine, as she hid her face under the bed-clothes, in that first night; and how she was bidden not to cry by the nurse, because it would disturb Miss Edith; and how she had cried as bitterly, but more quietly, till her newly-seen, grand, pretty aunt had come softly upstairs with Mr. Hale to show him his little sleeping daughter.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy: Why lov’st thou that which thou receiv’st not gladly, Or else receiv’st with pleasure thine annoy?
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

At day light, they commenced a very heavy cannonade and musketry fire on the Cawnpore battery; this gradually became so sharp, that it was impossible to work our guns, or even remain in the battery; and we were obliged to withdraw every one but the sentry, as the enemy's round shot had destroyed our musketry shutters, and completely swept the battery: later in the day, our sentry, the only man in the battery, was killed by a round shot.
— from The Defence of Lucknow A Diary Recording the Daily Events during the Siege of the European Residency, from 31st May to 25th September, 1857 by T. F. (Thomas Fourness) Wilson

The smile of the moonlight glided over each ripple, and reed, and closing water-lily; over her face, where the hood had fallen back from her loosened hair; over one hand trailing the water, and the other touching the flower at her breast; and, just above her breath, she said: “Row, my dear love; it's late!”
— from The Dark Flower by John Galsworthy

The one counts the stamens, and affixes a name, and is content; the other observes every character of the plant's color and form; considering each of its attributes as an element of expression, he seizes on its lines of grace or energy, rigidity or [Page xxxvi] repose; notes the feebleness or the vigor, the serenity or tremulousness of its hues; observes its local habits, its love or fear of peculiar places, its nourishment or destruction by particular influences; he associates it in his mind with all the features of the situations it inhabits, and the ministering agencies necessary to its support.
— from Modern Painters, Volume 1 (of 5) by John Ruskin

But nowhere is good punished as good, or evil rewarded as evil.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Pastoral Epistles by Alfred Plummer

This is part of the salesman’s responsibility to himself and his job, provided he is serious enough about it to figure beyond the weekly pay envelope and to plan each day’s work so that it will serve as a stepping stone to the position of greater responsibility—toward success, which is the goal of every red blooded and clear thinking man and woman in business.
— from Retail Shoe Salesmanship by Frank Butterworth

Gentlemen of equal rank formerly addressed each other in the second person plural.
— from El Estudiante de Salamanca and Other Selections by José de Espronceda

GDP (purchasing power parity): $2.742 billion (2005) country comparison to the world: 176 GDP (official exchange rate): $2.742 billion (2005)
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Following his intent gaze, our eyes rested upon a slight, graceful figure in the dress of a Religieuse , flitting silently through the small square beside the desecrated church.
— from Glories of Spain by Charles W. (Charles William) Wood

GDP (purchasing power parity): $8.122 billion (2006 est.) GDP (official exchange rate): $5.39 billion (2006 est.) GDP - real growth rate: 1.3% (2006 est.) GDP - per capita (PPP): $20,300 (2006 est.) GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 3% industry: 23% services: 74% (2003 est.)
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency