Emily, having then uttered the name of Valancourt, could articulate no more, but hesitated in trembling expectation.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

'Dear wolf,' complain'd a hungry fox, 'A lean chick's meat, or veteran cock's, Is all I get by toil or trick: Of such a living I am sick.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

Initials, in the signature of a letter, 458 ; on visiting cards, 76-77 ; on wedding presents, 322-323 .
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

The part that true conquering is to play, lies in the encounter, not in the coming off; and the honour of valour consists in fighting, not in subduing.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

And how much did he love his enemies when he called them "fools," "liars," "hypocrites," "generation of vipers," &c.?
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

350 Park Avenue Answers to invitations written on visiting cards are always formally worded in the third person, precisely as though the invitation had been engraved.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

The death of such youths seldom fails to meet with infinite pity; as no mortal calamity is more moving and afflicting, than to see the flower of virtue cropped before its time.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

In truth, it was a surprising spectacle, the successive remains of generations and generations of men and animals confounded together in one vast cemetery.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

swæðlǣcan to search out, visit , CHy 9 68 .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

It helps also the biting of vipers (which I take to be no other than our English adder) and all other venomous creatures.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

That gentleman stood the fire of questions very successfully; he had letters from his father up to within six months of the accident, and he proved the receipt of very considerable yearly sums, in each of the four years during which his father had been absent.
— from Sport Royal, and Other Stories by Anthony Hope

Josephus observes, on one occasion, very coolly,—“About this time I put away my wife, who had borne me three children, not being pleased with her manners.”
— from Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World by Anonymous

"These are some very entertaining anecdotes of Peter the Great, and place the private character of that Sovereign in a most amiable point of view," &c. &c.— Gentleman's Mag.
— from Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 by John Hughes

Legal system: based on communist legal theory and French civil law system Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal Executive branch: chief of state : President Le Duc ANH (since 23 September 1992) head of government: Prime Minister Vo Van KIET (since 9 August 1991); First Deputy Prime Minister Phan Van KHAI (since 10 August 1991); Deputy Prime Ministers Nguyen KHANH (since NA February 1987) and Tran Duc LUONG (since NA February 1987) cabinet: Cabinet appointed by the president on the proposal of the prime minister and ratification of the National Assembly elections: president elected by the National Assembly from among its members for a five-year term; election last held 23 September 1992 (next to be held when National Assembly meets following legislative elections in July 1997); prime minister appointed by the president from among the members of the National Assembly; deputy prime ministers appointed by the prime minister election results: Le Duc ANH elected president; percent of National Assembly vote - NA Legislative branch: unicameral National Assembly or Quoc-Hoi (395 seats; members elected by popular vote to serve five-year terms) elections: last held 19 July 1992 (next to be held 20 July 1997) election results: percent of vote by party - CPV or CPV-approved 100%; seats by party - CPV or CPV-approved 395 Judicial branch: Supreme People's Court, chief justice is elected for a five-year term by the National Assembly on the recommendation of the president Political parties and leaders: only party - Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), DO MUOI, general secretary International organization participation: ACCT, AsDB, ASEAN, CCC, ESCAP, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Intelsat, Interpol, IOC, IOM (observer), ISO, ITU, Mekong Group, NAM, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WCL, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WToO, WTrO (applicant)
— from The 1997 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Deep snows covered the hills and all around them swarmed the Afghans, savage and implacable, bent on their utter destruction, attacking them from every point of vantage, cutting down women and children with the same ruthless cruelty as they displayed in the case of men.
— from Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century by Charles Morris

And sith necessitie inforceth to haue some, yet let wisdome moderate their numbers, so shall their masters be rid of vnnecessarie charge, and the common wealth of manie théeues.
— from Chronicles (1 of 6): The Description of Britaine by William Harrison

A low hum of voices came out of the soundbox.
— from The Cosmic Computer by H. Beam Piper

DE ILLIS DICEREM PRISTINA POTESTATE UTI PERMISSUM, SED OMNES AUT IN GRAVEM PAUPERTATIS AERUMNAM DETRUSOS, AUT EXHAEREDATOS, PATRIA PULSOS, AUT EFFOSSIS OCULIS, VEL CAETERIS AMPUTATIS MEMBRIS OPPROBRIUM HOMINUM FACTOS, AUT CERTE MISERRIME AFFLICTOS, VITA PRIVATOS?
— from The History of England, Volume I From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 by David Hume

"We are assured," they wrote to him, on November 7, 1839, "that this question of the sovereignty of New Zealand engages the attention of various commercial bodies and a large portion of the public press in France; that the sovereignty in England is denied; that the French Government is urged either to join in that denial, by protesting against the colonisation of the Islands by England, or to claim an equal right with England to plant settlements there.
— from The Treaty of Waitangi; or, how New Zealand became a British Colony by Thomas Lindsay Buick

This lies upon a bed of very combustible shale, with carbon and iron pyrites, 250 feet thick, which from its great development here is known as Kimberley shale; then, after a conglomerate stratum 10 feet thick, is found a very hard compact rock, resembling hornblende, extending 400 feet downwards, and resting on another hard rock of quartz, also 400 feet in depth.
— from Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge