I dare say thou hast often admired its magnificent portals ever gaping wide, and disclosing to view a grave court, with cloisters and pillars, with few or no traces of goers-in or comers-out—a desolation something like Balclutha's.[1]
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

—No muchas; pero la maquinaria procede en general de los Estados Unidos.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Magna pars exercitûs Germânî cecidit.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Her very struggles, caused partly by pain and partly by apprehension, as she endeavoured to rise up, only aided me in effecting my purpose, and after a short contest, I had the satisfaction and delight of feeling the resistance which her virgin obstacles had offered to my progress entirely give way, and my victorious champion had penetrated her inmost secret recesses in such an effectual manner as to produce the most delicious conjunction of the most sensitive parts of our bodies that can possibly be conceived.
— from Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover by Anonymous

At this sad stirring is the sleeper’s rest and ease disturbed and broken, whereof the first feeling and stinging smart admonisheth that he must patiently endure great pain and trouble, and thereunto provide some remedy; as when we say proverbially, to incense hornets, to move a stinking puddle, and to awake a sleeping lion, instead of these more usual expressions, and of a more familiar and plain meaning, to provoke angry persons, to make a thing the worse by meddling with it, and to irritate a testy choleric man when he is at quiet.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Paseábase cierto día el mercader por el gran bazar de la ciudad, cuando se le acercaron dos comerciantes a proponerle: el uno la compra de una partida de cristalería, y el otro una de esencia de rosa.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

no ser insultado o maltratado por esta gente implacable.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Kats with blue eyes, and very long whiskers, with the points ov their ears a leetle rounded are not to be trusted they will steal yung chickens, and hook kream oph from the milk pans, every good chanse they kan git.
— from The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Josh Billings

When settlement expanded afresh after the Indians were driven away many private estates gradually arose to follow the industrial routine of those which had been called particular.
— from American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips

Unfortunately, from its proximity to the Pré-aux-Clercs, it was [Pg 250] frequented by so many persons either going or ready to fight, that those more peaceably disposed avoided it.
— from Dumas' Paris by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

ay en su contorno otras prouincias muy pobladas en grande numero de gente y aqui en esta prouinçia quedo un frayle que se deçia fray ju o de padilla y un español portugues y un negro y un mestiso y siertos indios de la prouinçia de capothan de la nueba españa a el frayle mataron porque se queria yr a la prouinçia de los guas que eran sus enemigos el español escapo huyendo en una yegua
— from The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542. Excerpted from the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-1893, Part 1. by George Parker Winship

The plants, which are for the most part evergreens, grow from two to fifteen feet high; they delight in a loamy soil, or mixture of loam or peat.
— from The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. (Peter Lund) Simmonds

At Milan, after the victory of Magenta had opened its gates, the most permanent enthusiasm gathered round the short, stout, undistinguished figure in plain clothes and spectacles—the one decidedly prosaic appearance in the pomp of war and the glitter of royal state.
— from Cavour by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington, contessa

Four Dragons the four small Asian less developed countries (LDCs) that have experienced unusually rapid economic growth; also known as the Four Tigers; this group includes Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan ————————————————————————————————————- # Four Tigers—another term for the Four Dragons; see Four Dragons ————————————————————————————————————- #_Franc Zone (FZ) established—NA; aim—monetary union among countries whose currencies are linked to the French franc; members—(15) Benin, Burkina, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo; note—France includes metropolitan France, the four overseas departments of France (French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Reunion), the two territorial collectivities of France (Mayotte, Saint Pierre and Miquelon), and the three overseas territories of France (French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Wallis and Futuna) ————————————————————————————————————- _#_Front Line States (FLS) established—NA; aim—to achieve black majority rule in South Africa; members—(7) Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe ————————————————————————————————————- _#_General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) established—30 October 1947, effective 1 January 1948; aim—to promote the expansion of international trade on a nondiscriminatory basis; members—(101) Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Burkina, Burma, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Finland, France, Gabon, The Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guyana, Haiti, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, South Korea, Kuwait, Lesotho, Luxembourg, Macau, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, NZ, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, UK, US, Uruguay, Venezuela, Yugoslavia, Zaire, Zambia, Zimbabwe ————————————————————————————————————- _#_Group of 2 (G-2) established—informal term that came into use about 1986; aim—bilateral economic cooperation between the two most powerful economic giants; members—(2) Japan, US ————————————————————————————————————- _#_Group of 3 (G-3) established—NA October 1990; aim—mechanism for policy coordination; members—(3) Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela ————————————————————————————————————- _#_Group of 5 (G-5) established—22 September 1985; aim—the five major non-Communist economic powers; members—(5) France, Germany, Japan, UK, US ————————————————————————————————————- _#_Group of 6 (G-6)—not to be confused with the Big Six; established—22 May 1984; aim—seeks to achieve nuclear disarmament; members—(6) Argentina, Greece, India, Mexico, Sweden, Tanzania ————————————————————————————————————- _#_Group of 7 (G-7)—membership is the same as the Big Seven; established—22 September 1985; aim—the seven major non-Communist economic powers; members—(7) Group of 5 (France, Germany, Japan, UK, US) plus Canada and Italy ————————————————————————————————————- _#_Group of 8 (G-8) established—NA October 1975; aim—the developed countries (DCs) that participated in the Conference on International Economic Cooperation (CIEC), held in several sessions between NA December 1975 and 3 June 1977; members—(8) Australia, Canada, EC (as one member), Japan, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, US ————————————————————————————————————- _#_Group of 9 (G-9) established—NA; aim—informal group that meets occasionally on matters of mutual interest; members—(9) Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Romania, Sweden, Yugoslavia ————————————————————————————————————- _#_Group of 10 (G-10), also known as the Paris Club; established—NA October 1962; aim—wealthiest members of the IMF who provide most of the money to be loaned and act as the informal steering committee; name persists in spite of the addition of Switzerland on NA April 1984; members—(11) Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, US ————————————————————————————————————- _#_Group of 11 (G-11), also known as the Cartagena Group; established—22 June 1984, in Cartagena, Colombia; aim—forum for largest debtor nations in Latin America; members—(11) Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela ————————————————————————————————————- _#_Group of 19 (G-19) established—NA October 1975; aim—the less developed countries (LDCs) that participated in the Conference on International Economic Cooperation (CIEC) held in several sessions between NA December 1975 and 3 June 1977; members—(19) Algeria, Argentina, Brazil, Cameroon, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Yugoslavia, Zaire, Zambia ————————————————————————————————————- _#_Group of 24 (G-24) established—NA January 1972; aim—to promote the interests of developing countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America within the IMF; members—(24) Algeria, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Iran, Ivory Coast, Lebanon, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Syria, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, Yugoslavia, Zaire ————————————————————————————————————- _#_Group of 30 (G-30) established—NA 1979; aim—to discuss and propose solutions to the world's economic problems; members—(30) informal group of 30 leading international bankers, economists, financial experts, and businessmen organized by Johannes Witteveen (former managing director of the IMF) ————————————————————————————————————- _#_Group of 33 (G-33) established—NA 1987; aim—to promote solutions to international economic problems; members—(33) leading economists from 13 countries ————————————————————————————————————- _#_Group of 77 (G-77) established—NA October 1967; aim—to promote economic cooperation among developing countries; name persists in spite of increased membership; members—(123 plus the Palestine Liberation Organization) Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, The Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Burkina, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, North Korea, South Korea, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Qatar, Romania, Rwanda, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Uganda, UAE, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Western Samoa, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Zaire, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Palestine Liberation Organization ————————————————————————————————————- _#_Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), also known as the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf; established—25-26 May 1981; aim—to promote regional cooperation in economic, social, political, and military affairs; members—(6) Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE ————————————————————————————————————- _# Habitat—see United Nations Center for Human Settlements (UNCHS) ————————————————————————————————————- # high-income countries—another term for the industrialized countries with high per capita GNPs/GDPs; see developed countries (DCs) ————————————————————————————————————- # industrial countries—another term for the developed countries; see developed countries (DCs) ————————————————————————————————————- #_Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), also known as Banco Interamericano de Desarollo (BID);
— from The 1991 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Maria Pablovna exchanged glances with Nekhludoff, expressing apprehension concerning Kryltzoff's condition.
— from The Awakening (The Resurrection) by Tolstoy, Leo, graf