“Beresford has just said that I would not have believed Sir James Peel Edgerton to be guilty unless, so to speak, he was caught in the act.
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

Oh, by the way, this is Mr. Hersheimmer, Sir James Peel Edgerton.”
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

Les difficultés sont immenses: notre clavier avec ses ± 250 touches avoue ses manques dès lors qu'il faille saisir des Katakana ou Hiragana japonais, pire encore avec la langue chinoise.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

In the cloister:—Bartholomew Rede, knight, mayor of London, buried 1505; Sir John Popham, etc.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Pour la populace , ce n'est jamais par envie d'attaquer qu'elle se soulève, mais par impatience de souffrir. "
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Donde está el peligro, es en el caso de pequeños productores/distribuidores de temas o contenidos "originales" que no tienen los medios para cuidarse de la apropiación de sus productos ni de iniciar medidas jurídicas para el respeto de sus derechos.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

This is a little puzzle of a quite practical kind, and it is just perplexing enough to be interesting.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

The back of the leaflet, instead of being left blank, showed happy Japanese prisoners enjoying American captivity, their faces left identifiable as Japanese but blanked out enough to head off individual identification.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

[ In the severe censure of the flight of Justiniani, Phranza expresses his own feelings and those of the public.
— 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

Still dazed by his jealous, passionate emotions, he glanced about the room, chose a long leather sofa, and stretching out his length, fell asleep.
— from The Girl From His Town by Marie Van Vorst

I offer in evidence the document now identified as John Pic Exhibit No. 2.
— from Warren Commission (11 of 26): Hearings Vol. XI (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

There can be little doubt that more than one medical officer and possibly the commandant of the hospital, saw through Jones' pretence, excellent as it was.
— from The Secrets of a Kuttite An Authentic Story of Kut, Adventures in Captivity and Stamboul Intrigue by Edward O. (Edward Opotiki) Mousley

Respecting our great Caroline divines it would seldom have been right to say— "Quos (Harpyiarum more) Convectare juvat prædas, et vivere rapto."
— from Notes and Queries, Number 33, June 15, 1850 by Various

NA domestic: NA international: satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean) Somalia: general assessment: the public telecommunications system was completely destroyed or dismantled by the civil war factions; all relief organizations depend on their own private systems domestic: recently, local cellular telephone systems have been established in Mogadishu and in several other population centers international: international connections are available from Mogadishu by satellite South Africa: general assessment: the system is the best developed and most modern in Africa domestic: consists of carrier-equipped open-wire lines, coaxial cables, microwave radio relay links, fiber-optic cable, radiotelephone communication stations, and wireless local loops; key centers are Bloemfontein, Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth, and Pretoria international: 2 submarine cables; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (1 Indian Ocean and 2 Atlantic Ocean) South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands: general assessment: NA domestic: NA international: coastal radiotelephone station at Grytviken Spain: general assessment: generally adequate, modern facilities; teledensity is 44 main lines for each 100 persons domestic: NA international: 22 coaxial submarine cables; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean), NA Eutelsat; tropospheric scatter to adjacent countries Sri Lanka: general assessment: very inadequate domestic service, particularly in rural areas; some hope for improvement with privatization of national telephone company and encouragement to private investment; good international service (1999) domestic: national trunk network consists mostly of digital microwave radio relay; fiber-optic links now in use in Colombo area and two fixed wireless local loops have been installed; competition is strong in mobile cellular systems; telephone density remains low at 2.6 main lines per 100 persons (1999) international: submarine cables to Indonesia and Djibouti; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Indian Ocean) (1999) Sudan: general assessment: large, well-equipped system by regional standards and being upgraded; cellular communications started in 1996 and have expanded substantially domestic: consists of microwave radio relay, cable, radiotelephone communications, tropospheric scatter, and a domestic satellite system with 14 earth stations international: satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) and 1 Arabsat (2000)
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

It was just possible Elsie might have sent that note.
— from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes

E. J. Payne, Esq.
— from The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea. Vol. II by Gomes Eannes de Zurara