There 's also nightly, to the uninitiated, A peril—not indeed like love or marriage, But not the less for this to be depreciated: It is—I meant and mean not to disparage The show of virtue even in the vitiated— It adds an outward grace unto their carriage— But to denounce the amphibious sort of harlot, 'Couleur de rose,' who 's neither white nor scarlet.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Hence it is that the most illiterate and ignorant nations and tribes have always been able to recount the longest list of miraculous prodigies achieved by a disorderly God, who seems to have taken pleasure in violating his own laws, or suspending them, for the most trivial purposes.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

Thus standing, she was yet perfectly well aware that Janetta Colwyn gave her an odd, impish little look of mingled fun and anxiety behind Miss Polehampton's back; for it was generally known that a lecture was impending when one of the girls was detained after prayers, and it was very unusual for Margaret to be lectured!
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

Maggie stood in dismay and terror, while Tom got up from the floor and walked away, pale, from the scattered ruins of his pagoda, and Lucy looked on mutely, like a kitten pausing from its lapping.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

I ought to think of this; and if there be nothing but sorrow for me in this world, what is the longest life of misery to a whole eternity of peace?
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

" With respect to Apollonius, it is a remarkable, if not a suspicious circumstance that should not be passed unnoticed, that several Christian writers, while they recount a long list of miracles and remarkable incidents in the life of this Cappadocian Savior, extending through his whole life, and forming a parallel to similar incidents of the Christian Savior, not a word is said about his crucifixion.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

Her will, or faith, must have failed her at the crucial instant, and the lower law of matter had its horrible revenge.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Tom, you take Mrs. Jenkins over to the Secretary and show him that little line of mine.
— from Tom Strong, Lincoln's Scout A Story of the United States in the Times That Tried Men's Souls by Alfred Bishop Mason

Telegraph wires were extended to all the principal towns of Luzon; lines of mail steamers to all the principal ports of the Archipelago were established and subsidized.
— from The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Frederic H. Sawyer

My darter, my soft-eyed gal, the crown of my grey hairs, the last light of my life!”
— from Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts

I no longer say “One side, please!” to life, while life, like old Major Elmes on Murray Hill, declines to vary its course for one small and piping voice.
— from The Prairie Child by Arthur Stringer

“Meldrum, bring me that last letter of Manson’s about the division superintendency of the Midland.”
— from The Speculations of John Steele by Robert Barr

Travelling far up in the sky, a long line of marsh-fowl with outstretched necks sought the remoter solitudes of the fens.
— from Rodmoor: A Romance by John Cowper Powys

Ports: coastal - Tallinn, Novotallin, Parnu; inland - Narva Merchant marine: 69 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 406,405 GRT/537,016 DWT, bulk 6, cargo 50, container 2, oil tanker 1, roll-on/roll-off cargo 6, short-sea passenger 4 Airports: total: 29 usable: 18 with permanent-surface runways: 11 with runways over 3,659 m: 0 with runways 2,440-3,659 m: 10 with runways 1,060-2,439 m: 8 note: a C-130 can land on a 1,060-m airstrip Telecommunications: Estonia's telephone system is antiquated and supports about 400,000 domestic telephone circuits, i.e. 25 telephones for each 100 persons; improvements are being made piecemeal, with emphasis on business needs and international connections; there are still about 150,000 unfulfilled requests for telephone service; broadcast stations - 3 TV (provide Estonian programs as well Moscow Ostenkino's first and second programs); international traffic is carried to the other former USSR republics by land line or microwave and to other countries partly by leased connection to the Moscow international gateway switch, and partly by a new Tallinn-Helsinki fiber optic submarine cable which gives Estonia access to international circuits everywhere; substantial investment has been made in cellular systems which are operational throughout Estonia and also Latvia and which have access to the international packet switched digital network via Helsinki @Estonia, Defense Forces Branches: Ground Forces, Maritime Border Guard, National Guard (Kaitseliit), Security Forces (internal and border troops), Coast Guard Manpower availability: males age 15-49 392,135; fit for military service 308,951; reach military age (18) annually 11,789 (1994 est.)
— from The 1994 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Before me, a great forbidding wall, growing blacker as it went upwards and ending in a level line of mist, stood the Brienzer Grat.
— from The Path to Rome by Hilaire Belloc

Near the sepoys' tents long lines of mules picketed by their feet stood by the guns; and further on baggage-camels, lying down, were hardly distinguishable from the russet grass and the scorched ochre sand.
— from Enchanted India by Bozidar Karadordevic

He led a lonely life of “make believe” during those five weeks of summer weather, with gun, wigwam, water and canoe; and, however hard his active little brain tried to keep the sense of beauty away, she did creep in on him for a second now and then, perching on the wing of a dragon-fly, glistening on the water lilies, or brushing his eyes with her blue as he lay on his back in ambush.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume III. Awakening To Let by John Galsworthy