All that a mere man could do, it seemed to Jurgis, was to take a thing like this as he found it, and do as he was told; to be given a place in it and a share in its wonderful activities was a blessing to be grateful for, as one was grateful for the sunshine and the rain.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Sabía que sus millares de espectadores representan, en los días de lleno, [3] la masa más considerable de níveas pecheras
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

The new Bridge of Spain caught his attention, while the houses on the right bank of the river among the clumps of bamboo and trees where the Escolta ends and the Isla de Romero begins, reminded him of the cool mornings when he used to pass there in a boat on his way to the baths of Uli-Uli. He met many carriages, drawn by beautiful pairs of dwarfish ponies, within which were government clerks who seemed yet half asleep as they made their way to their offices, or military officers, or Chinese in foolish and ridiculous attitudes, or Gave friars and canons.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

Once I was beautiful; my maiden charms Died with the grief that from my bosom fell.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

Concerning the making of the Mole, Mr. Cholmely did also discourse very well, having had some experience in it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Vom Vater hab' ich die Statur, / Des Lebens ernstes Führen; / Von Mütterchen die Frohnatur, / Und Lust zu fabulieren —From my father inherit I stature and the earnest conduct of life; from motherkin my cheerful disposition and pleasure in fanciful invention.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

SYN: Misrepresent, misquote, mutilate, cook, dress, color, falsify, pervert, distort.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

"You don't mind my cigar, do you, Miss Sharp?" Miss Sharp loved the smell of a cigar out of doors beyond everything in the world—and she just tasted one too, in the prettiest way possible, and gave a little puff, and a little scream, and a little giggle, and restored the delicacy to the Captain, who twirled his moustache, and straightway puffed it into a blaze that glowed quite red in the dark plantation, and swore—"Jove—aw—Gad—aw—it's the finest segaw I ever smoked in the world aw," for his intellect and conversation were alike brilliant and becoming to a heavy young dragoon.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Montbazon is rising from its ashes, a much more commodious dwelling."
— from The Maid of Honour: A Tale of the Dark Days of France. Vol. 3 (of 3) by Lewis Wingfield

"I ought to have been with him before this, only my infatuation for the bride makes my case difficult.
— from The Second Violin by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond

Presently our mother may come down.
— from A Spirit in Prison by Robert Hichens

I grant that the people may make an office for the better doing of some parts of their own work: they may make collectors, door-keepers, artists by office, to keep the clock, and bells, and church buildings, &c. if the magistrates leave it to them.
— from A Christian Directory, Part 3: Christian Ecclesiastics by Richard Baxter

The pillar is executed in good taste, and on one of the three facades are the following lines, doing much honour to the heart as well as to the head of the composer:— In Memory of Mrs. MARY CAROL, Deceased the 22nd of November, 1809, This Monument is erected, By Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, Of Plas Newydd, in this Parish.
— from History of Llangollen and Its Vicinity Including a Circuit of About Seven Miles by W. T. (Wilfrid Tord) Simpson

"Their gay robes trailed in ditch and swamp, And torn by thorn and thicket, The dancing-girls of Merry Mount Came dragging to my wicket.
— from Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier

The assembled editors purposely set the Bloomington Convention for a somewhat late day in the campaign, and before the time arrived the political situation in the State was already much more clearly defined.
— from Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02 by John G. (John George) Nicolay

This morning Mr. Creed did give me the Papers that concern my Lord's sea commission, which he left in my hands and went to sea this day to look after the gratuity money.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1660 N.S. by Samuel Pepys

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— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency