At Independence I found F. X. Aubrey, a noted man of that day, who had just made a celebrated ride of six hundred miles in six days.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman
S. Sighele 200 4. Esprit de Corps , Morale, and Collective Representations of Social Groups.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess
4. Esprit de Corps , Morale, and Collective Representations of Social Groups
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess
“‘As soon as we get to England,’ I thought, ‘we will get married, and can resume our several dresses.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova
"'As soon as we get to England,' I thought, 'we will get married, and can resume our several dresses.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 22: to London by Giacomo Casanova
Few railroads could afford to tie up capital in the cars required for such brief periods of demand; it would be an economic fallacy to pass the expense of the maintenance and constant replacement of such an equipment on to the public.
— from The Story of the Pullman Car by Joseph Husband
No, men are considered relations or strangers, according as their virtues or vices make them meet with esteem or disregard.
— from The Gâtakamâlâ; Or, Garland of Birth-Stories by Aryasura
A slight increase of the normal quantity of carbonic acid in the air renders it poisonous to man, and continued respiration of such air, or a considerable increase of the carbonic acid, will prove fatal.
— from Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, February 1899 Volume LIV, No. 4, February 1899 by Various
During the meal a clergyman read out something edifying for them, and when it was over no one was to speak till grace was said.
— from Secret Societies of the Middle Ages by Thomas Keightley
The horse was but little hurt; and with this slight mishap, which is nothing here, where horses and mules are constantly rolling over steep places, he had succeeded in getting into camp three or four hours before the animals could have possibly reached it, had they kept in their original place in the line; indeed it was most improbable that they could have got in last night at all.
— from The March to Magdala by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Communications #_Highways: 25.7 km paved macadam and concrete roads, otherwise stone-, coral-, or laterite-surfaced roads (1986) _#_Ports: Koror _#_Airports: 2 with permanent-surface runways 1,220-2,439 m _#_Telecommunications: stations—1 AM, 1 FM, 1 TV; 1 Pacific Ocean INTELSAT earth station _*
— from The 1991 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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