"She was quite kind and sweet to me all the time that I stayed at her house, although——" "Although afterwards," said Mr. Colwyn, shrewdly, "she could let you stay here for weeks without seeming to remember you, or coming near you for an hour!"
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

These things being premised, and such being the government, it follows that such rules as the following should be observed in it, that all the magistrates should be chosen out of all the people, and all to command each, and each in his turn all: that all the magistrates should be chosen by lot, except to those offices only which required some particular knowledge and skill: that no census, or a very small one, should be required to qualify a man for any office: that none should be in the same employment twice, or very few, and very seldom, except in the army: that all their appointments should be limited to a very short time, or at least as many as possible: that the whole community should be qualified to judge in all causes whatsoever, let the object be ever so extensive, ever so interesting, or of ever so high a nature; as at Athens, where the people at large judge the magistrates when they come out of office, and decide concerning public affairs as well as private contracts: that the supreme power should be in the public assembly; and that no magistrate should be allowed any discretionary power but in a few instances, and of no consequence to public business.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

Tom dropped upon his knees with a glad cry— “God requite thy mercy, O my King, and save thee long to bless thy land!”
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

"I know, Anna Sergievna, that you will excuse him.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Banal na ang dálan nga kanúnayng agiagíag sakyanan, The road that the vehicles keep passing over has been pressed down hard.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Ayaw kug antáki sa tiil, Don’t stamp your foot at me.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

'T was not without some reason, for the wind Increased at night, until it blew a gale; And though 't was not much to a naval mind, Some landsmen would have look'd a little pale, For sailors are, in fact, a different kind: At sunset they began to take in sail, For the sky show'd it would come on to blow, And carry away, perhaps, a mast or so.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Mr. Rucastle survived, but was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of his devoted wife.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

Without considering that it was not in her mother's plan to keep any horse, that if she were to alter her resolution in favour of this gift, she must buy another for the servant, and keep a servant to ride it, and after all, build a stable to receive them, she had accepted the present without hesitation, and told her sister of it in raptures.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

95 With wiry teeth revolving cards release The tanged knots, and smooth the ravell'd fleece; Next moves the iron-band with fingers fine, Combs the wide card, and forms the eternal line; Slow, with soft lips, the whirling Can acquires 100 The tender skeins, and wraps in rising spires; With quicken'd pace successive rollers move, And these retain, and those extend the rove ; Then fly the spoles, the rapid axles glow;— And slowly circumvolves the labouring wheel below.
— from The Botanic Garden. Part II. Containing the Loves of the Plants. a Poem. With Philosophical Notes. by Erasmus Darwin

“Well, I must speak the truth,” answered Katenka, “and say that you HAVE lost, my dear.”
— from Boyhood by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

A lump of coal no bigger than one's fist, if judiciously employed, will suffice to keep a small toy engine at work for a considerable time.
— from Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics by Joel Dorman Steele

Father, you know I have kept a secret to myself for three whole days.
— from The Automobile Girls in the Berkshires; Or, The Ghost of Lost Man's Trail by Laura Dent Crane

"He fancies I shall be ashamed of him because he keeps a shop," thought she; and that was exactly what he did fancy, knowing the world and its funny little inconsistent social ways.
— from Sisters by Ada Cambridge

The voice, of a smooth, oily timbre, as if the owner kept it well greased for purposes of amiable speech, was like an echo of the past, when jolly, irresponsible Baron de Batz, erst-while officer of the Guard in the service of the late King, and since then known to be the most inveterate conspirator for the restoration of the monarchy, used to amuse Marguerite by his vapid, senseless plans for the overthrow of the newly-risen power of the people.
— from El Dorado: An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

Country Comparison to the World Country Area(sq km) Afghanistan total: 652,230 sq km land: 652,230 sq km water: 0 sq km Akrotiri total: 123 sq km note: includes a salt lake and wetlands Albania total: 28,748 sq km land: 27,398 sq km water: 1,350 sq km Algeria total: 2,381,741 sq km land: 2,381,741 sq km water: 0 sq km American Samoa total: 199 sq km land: 199 sq km water: 0 sq km note: includes Rose Island and Swains Island Andorra total: 468 sq km land: 468 sq km water: 0 sq km Angola total: 1,246,700 sq km land: 1,246,700 sq km water: 0 sq km Anguilla total: 91 sq km land: 91 sq km water: 0 sq km Antarctica total: 14 million sq km land: 14 million sq km (280,000 sq km ice-free, 13.72 million sq km ice-covered) (est.)
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

“And appreciation of kindness, Ada,” said the magistrate, “is its dearest reward.
— from Ada, the Betrayed; Or, The Murder at the Old Smithy. A Romance of Passion by James Malcolm Rymer