With this view, he proposed that liberal premiums should be offered for the three best designs for a general almshouse; from which—as insect architecture was well known to be in a very advanced and perfect state—we might possibly derive many valuable hints for the improvement of our metropolitan universities, national galleries, and other public edifices.
— from Sketches by Boz, Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People by Charles Dickens

Industrial exports include gold, mercury, uranium, natural gas, and electricity.
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

He wears a continuous smile and is forever on the move, making up new games and stories for boys and girls.
— from Blue Bonnet in Boston; or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's by Lela Horn Richards

VINCENT: Every man, uncle, naturally grudgeth at pain, and is very loth to come to it.
— from Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens by More, Thomas, Saint

There, you have my ultimatum; now go and make the best of it!"
— from Sea and Shore A Sequel to "Miriam's Memoirs" by Catherine A. (Catherine Ann) Warfield