"He really isn't a man," rejoined Chia Chen, "accustomed to give much of his time to the practice of medicine, in order to earn rice for his support: and it's Feng Tzu-ying, who is so friendly with us, who is mainly to be thanked for succeeding, after ever so much trouble, in inducing him to come.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

We did not carry on our loves with such secrecy but that they came to the knowledge of my lady, and she, not to have any fuss about it, had us married with the full sanction of the holy mother Roman Catholic Church, of which marriage a daughter was born to put an end to my good fortune, if I had any; not that I died in childbirth, for I passed through it safely and in due season, but because shortly afterwards my husband died of a certain shock he received, and had I time to tell you of it I know your worship would be surprised;" and here she began to weep bitterly and said, "Pardon me, Senor Don Quixote, if I am unable to control myself, for every time I think of my unfortunate husband my eyes fill up with tears.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

[40] mantienen relaciones comerciales con las fábricas de Europa y Estados Unidos o con fábricas del país en que operan.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

'T is melancholy, and a fearful sign Of human frailty, folly, also crime, That love and marriage rarely can combine, Although they both are born in the same clime; Marriage from love, like vinegar from wine— A sad, sour, sober beverage—by time Is sharpen'd from its high celestial flavour Down to a very homely household savour.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

What is there in common between a yearly observance and the Deity, and how can the action of the creature have any influence over the Creator, whom my reason cannot conceive otherwise than independent?
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Men and firms active in early coffee roasting in New Orleans were: Shaw's Louisiana Coffee and Spice Mills; Ruliff, Clark & Co.; R. Poursini & Co.; and Smith & McKenna.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

" "Teaching the peasants to read and write, books of wretched precepts and rhymes, and medical relief centres, cannot diminish either ignorance or the death-rate, just as the light from your windows cannot light up this huge garden," said I. "You give nothing.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Navvy , an excavator employed in making railways, canals, &c. Originally slang, but now a recognised term.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

“I do not think you understand me,” replied Caderousse, calmly; “I said without your laying out a sou.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

us was an elderly and much respected civil councilor, the father of grown-up daughters, who could hardly have spread the tale, even if there had been any foundation for it.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

At this temperature it is possible for the more refractory chemical compounds to form, the oxides and the hydrides, and the spectra of sun-spots reveal the presence of titanium oxide and magnesium and calcium hydride.
— from Astronomy for Young Folks by Isabel Martin Lewis

Two or three former literary celebrities who happened to be in Petersburg, and with whom Varvara Petrovna had long maintained a most refined correspondence, came also.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[621] 5 To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures; 6 To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States; 7 To establish Post Offices and post Roads; 8 To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; 9 To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court; 10 To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations; 11 To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; 12 To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; 13 To provide and maintain a Navy; 14 To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces; 15 To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions; 16 To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress; 17 To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, Dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;—And 18 To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
— from History of the Origin, Formation, and Adoption of the Constitution of the United States, Vol. 2 With Notices of Its Principle Framers by George Ticknor Curtis

[Hugh MARSHALL] Argentina Argentine Association of Pharmaceutical Labs (CILFA); Argentine Industrial Union (manufacturers' association); Argentine Rural Society (large landowners' association); business organizations; General Confederation of Labor or CGT (Peronist-leaning umbrella labor organization); Peronist-dominated labor movement; Roman Catholic Church; students Armenia Yerkrapah Union [Manvel GRIGORIAN]
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Lent by Miss Robinson, Chilvers Coton.
— from George Eliot Centenary, November 1919 Catalogue of Relics, Manuscrips, Prints, Paintings, Photographs & Books relating to George Eliot by Coventry (England). Public Libraries Committee

Bermuda bananas, vegetables, citrus, flowers; dairy products Bhutan rice, corn, root crops, citrus, foodgrains; dairy products, eggs Bolivia soybeans, coffee, coca, cotton, corn, sugarcane, rice, potatoes; timber Bosnia and Herzegovina wheat, corn, fruits, vegetables; livestock Botswana livestock, sorghum, maize, millet, beans, sunflowers, groundnuts Brazil coffee, soybeans, wheat, rice, corn, sugarcane, cocoa, citrus; beef British Virgin Islands fruits, vegetables; livestock, poultry; fish Brunei rice, vegetables, fruits, chickens, water buffalo Bulgaria vegetables, fruits, tobacco, livestock, wine, wheat, barley, sunflowers, sugar beets Burkina Faso cotton, peanuts, shea nuts, sesame, sorghum, millet, corn, rice; livestock Burma rice, pulses, beans, sesame, groundnuts, sugarcane; hardwood; fish and fish products Burundi coffee, cotton, tea, corn, sorghum, sweet potatoes, bananas, manioc (tapioca); beef, milk, hides Cambodia rice, rubber, corn, vegetables Cameroon coffee, cocoa, cotton, rubber, bananas, oilseed, grains, root starches; livestock; timber Canada wheat, barley, oilseed, tobacco, fruits, vegetables; dairy products; forest products; fish Cape Verde bananas, corn, beans, sweet potatoes, sugarcane, coffee, peanuts; fish Cayman Islands vegetables, fruit; livestock, turtle farming Central African Republic cotton, coffee, tobacco, manioc (tapioca), yams, millet, corn, bananas; timber Chad cotton, sorghum, millet, peanuts, rice, potatoes, manioc (tapioca); cattle, sheep, goats, camels Chile wheat, corn, grapes, beans, sugar beets, potatoes, fruit; beef, poultry, wool; fish; timber China rice, wheat, potatoes, sorghum, peanuts, tea, millet, barley, cotton, oilseed; pork; fish Christmas Island NA Cocos (Keeling) Islands vegetables, bananas, pawpaws, coconuts Colombia coffee, cut flowers, bananas, rice, tobacco, corn, sugarcane, cocoa beans, oilseed, vegetables; forest products; shrimp Comoros vanilla, cloves, perfume essences, copra, coconuts, bananas, cassava (tapioca) Congo, Democratic Republic of the coffee, sugar, palm oil, rubber, tea, quinine, cassava (tapioca), palm oil, bananas, root crops, corn, fruits; wood products Congo, Republic of the cassava (tapioca), sugar, rice, corn, peanuts, vegetables, coffee, cocoa; forest products Cook Islands copra, citrus, pineapples, tomatoes, beans, pawpaws, bananas, yams, taro, coffee; pigs, poultry Costa Rica coffee, pineapples, bananas, sugar, corn, rice, beans, potatoes; beef; timber Cote d'Ivoire coffee, cocoa beans, bananas, palm kernels, corn, rice, manioc (tapioca), sweet potatoes, sugar, cotton, rubber; timber Croatia wheat, corn, sugar beets, sunflower seed, barley, alfalfa, clover, olives, citrus, grapes, soybeans, potatoes; livestock, dairy products Cuba sugar, tobacco, citrus, coffee, rice, potatoes, beans; livestock Cyprus potatoes, citrus, vegetables, barley, grapes, olives, vegetables Czech Republic wheat, potatoes, sugar beets, hops, fruit; pigs, poultry Denmark barley, wheat, potatoes, sugar beets; pork, dairy products; fish Djibouti fruits, vegetables; goats, sheep, camels Dominica bananas, citrus, mangoes, root crops, coconuts, cocoa; forest and fishery potential not exploited Dominican Republic sugarcane, coffee, cotton, cocoa, tobacco, rice, beans, potatoes, corn, bananas; cattle, pigs, dairy products, beef, eggs East Timor coffee, rice, maize, cassava, sweet potatoes, soybeans, cabbage, mangoes, bananas, vanilla Ecuador bananas, coffee, cocoa, rice, potatoes, manioc (tapioca), plantains, sugarcane; cattle, sheep, pigs, beef, pork, dairy products; balsa wood; fish, shrimp Egypt cotton, rice, corn, wheat, beans, fruits, vegetables; cattle, water buffalo, sheep, goats El Salvador coffee, sugar, corn, rice, beans, oilseed, cotton, sorghum; shrimp; beef, dairy products Equatorial Guinea coffee, cocoa, rice, yams, cassava (tapioca), bananas, palm oil nuts; livestock; timber Eritrea sorghum, lentils, vegetables, corn, cotton, tobacco, coffee, sisal; livestock, goats; fish Estonia potatoes, vegetables; livestock and dairy products; fish Ethiopia cereals, pulses, coffee, oilseed, sugarcane, potatoes, qat; hides, cattle, sheep, goats Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) fodder and vegetable crops; sheep, dairy products Faroe Islands milk, potatoes, vegetables; sheep; salmon, other fish Fiji sugarcane, coconuts, cassava (tapioca), rice, sweet potatoes, bananas; cattle, pigs, horses, goats; fish Finland barley, wheat, sugar beets, potatoes; dairy cattle; fish France wheat, cereals, sugar beets, potatoes, wine grapes; beef, dairy products; fish French Guiana corn, rice, manioc (tapioca), sugar, cocoa, vegetables, bananas; cattle, pigs, poultry French Polynesia coconuts, vanilla, vegetables, fruits; poultry, beef, dairy products, coffee Gabon cocoa, coffee, sugar, palm oil, rubber; cattle; okoume (a tropical softwood); fish Gambia, The rice, millet, sorghum, peanuts, corn, sesame, cassava (tapioca), palm kernels; cattle, sheep, goats Gaza Strip olives, citrus, vegetables; beef, dairy products Georgia citrus, grapes, tea, hazlenuts, vegetables; livestock Germany potatoes, wheat, barley, sugar beets, fruit, cabbages; cattle, pigs, poultry Ghana cocoa, rice, coffee, cassava (tapioca), peanuts, corn, shea nuts, bananas; timber Gibraltar none Greece wheat, corn, barley, sugar beets, olives, tomatoes, wine, tobacco, potatoes; beef, dairy products Greenland forage crops, garden and greenhouse vegetables; sheep, reindeer; fish Grenada bananas, cocoa, nutmeg, mace, citrus, avocados, root crops, sugarcane, corn, vegetables Guadeloupe bananas, sugarcane, tropical fruits and vegetables; cattle, pigs, goats Guam fruits, copra, vegetables; eggs, pork, poultry, beef Guatemala sugarcane, corn, bananas, coffee, beans, cardamom; cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens Guernsey tomatoes, greenhouse flowers, sweet peppers, eggplant, fruit; Guernsey cattle Guinea rice, coffee, pineapples, palm kernels, cassava (tapioca), bananas, sweet potatoes; cattle, sheep, goats; timber Guinea-Bissau rice, corn, beans, cassava (tapioca), cashew nuts, peanuts, palm kernels, cotton; timber; fish Guyana sugar, rice, wheat, vegetable oils; beef, pork, poultry, dairy products; fish (shrimp)
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

H. Rector, A. Chamberlain and Anderson Cox being the other members representing Champoeg County in the lower house of the Oregon legislature.
— from The Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society, Vol. IV March, 1903-December, 1903 by Oregon Historical Society

Strangely enough the man recognized Curlie Carson.
— from The Rope of Gold A Mystery Story for Boys by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell