Announcing Persons Of Rank All men of high executive rank are not alone announced first, but take precedence of their wives in entering the room.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Now that she has ceased to be afraid of them, much of her extreme reserve has disappeared.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To make our human ethics revolve about the question of 'merit' is a piteous unreality—God alone can know our merits, if we have any.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

But the child’s loud, ringing laugh, and the motion of her eyebrows, recalled Vronsky so vividly that she got up hurriedly, restraining her sobs, and went away.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

So this is the meaning of her excited, resolute, unnatural look the day before yesterday, yesterday, and today,” thought Sónya.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Does the power to rob a man of his earnings, rob the earner of his right to them?
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society

"The first bone of contention is the participation of Penn in that nefarious transaction by which the Royal Maids of Honor extorted ransoms from the poor Taunton girls who had welcomed the arrival of Monmouth.
— from The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various

Had she not, in that moment of her ecstasy, responded to his well-remembered kisses?
— from Her Royal Highness: A Romance of the Chancelleries of Europe by William Le Queux

@Nigeria:Transnational Issues Disputes-international: demarcation of international boundaries in the vicinity of Lake Chad, the lack of which led to border incidents in the past, is completed and awaits ratification by Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria; dispute with Cameroon over land and maritime boundaries in the vicinity of the Bakasi Peninsula has been referred to the ICJ with a ruling expected in 1998; maritime boundary dispute with Equatorial Guinea because of disputed jurisdiction over oil-rich areas in the Gulf of Guinea Illicit drugs: facilitates movement of heroin en route from Southeast and Southwest Asia to Western Europe and North America; increasingly a transit route for cocaine from South America intended for European, East Asian, and North American markets ______________________________________________________________________ NIUE (self-governing in free association with New Zealand) @Niue:Geography Location: Oceania, island in the South Pacific Ocean, east of Tonga Geographic coordinates: 19 02 S, 169 52 W Map references:
— from The 1998 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Several minutes elapsed ere she grew calm enough to explain to Eliza the meaning of her exclamation relative to the voice in the ruins.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 2/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

The King had, since the insurrection of the 20th of June, which displayed how much he was at the mercy of his enemies, renounced almost all thoughts of safety or escape.
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume I. by Walter Scott

Jean backed away from him, her mouth open, her eyes round with astonishment.
— from Penny Plain by O. Douglas

She asked him with a haughty smile to be kind enough to explain the meaning of his energetic remark.
— from Jean-Christophe, Volume I by Romain Rolland

In process of time, the severity of his measures, or the meanness of his extraction, rendered him so unpopular at Jerusalem that the inhabitants expelled him by force of arms.
— from Palestine, or, the Holy Land: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Michael Russell

[Footnote: Man has not only subverted the natural numerical relations of wild as well as domestic quadrupeds, fish, birds, reptile, insect, and common plants, and even of still humbler tribes of animal and vegetable life, but he has effected in the forms, habits, nutriment and products of the organisms which minister to his wants and his pleasures, changes which, more than any other manifestaion of human energy, resemble the exercise of a creative power.
— from The Earth as Modified by Human Action by George P. (George Perkins) Marsh