Some large trees had been planted in little pots, so that they were cramped for room, and seemed about to burst the pot to pieces; while many weak little flowers were growing in rich soil, with moss all around them, carefully tended and cared for.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

[226] He did not, however, confine himself to official reports, but while a prisoner in London published several pamphlets to the same effect, which he sent broadcast over Europe.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Zuidplaspolder -7 m highest point: Vaalserberg 322 m Netherlands Antilles lowest point: Caribbean Sea 0 m highest point: Mount Scenery 862 m New Caledonia lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m highest point: Mont Panie 1,628 m New Zealand lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m highest point: Aoraki-Mount Cook 3,754 m Nicaragua lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m highest point: Mogoton 2,438 m Niger lowest point: Niger River 200 m highest point: Mont Bagzane 2,022 m Nigeria lowest point: Atlantic Ocean 0 m highest point: Chappal Waddi 2,419 m Niue lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m highest point: unnamed location near Mutalau settlement 68 m Norfolk Island lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m highest point: Mount Bates 319 m Northern Mariana Islands lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m highest point: unnamed location on Agrihan 965 m Norway lowest point: Norwegian Sea 0 m highest point: Galdhopiggen 2,469 m Oman lowest point: Arabian Sea 0 m highest point: Jabal Shams 2,980 m Pacific Ocean lowest point: Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench -10,924 m highest point: sea level 0 m Pakistan lowest point: Indian Ocean 0 m highest point: K2 (Mt. Godwin-Austen) 8,611 m Palau lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m highest point: Mount Ngerchelchuus 242 m Palmyra Atoll lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m highest point: unnamed location 2 m Panama lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m highest point: Volcan de Chiriqui 3,475 m Papua New Guinea lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m highest point: Mount Wilhelm 4,509 m Paracel Islands lowest point: South China Sea 0 m highest point: unnamed location on Rocky Island 14 m Paraguay lowest point: junction of Rio Paraguay and Rio Parana 46 m highest point: Cerro Pero (Cerro Tres Kandu) 842 m Peru lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m highest point: Nevado Huascaran 6,768 m Philippines lowest point: Philippine Sea 0 m highest point: Mount Apo 2,954 m Pitcairn Islands lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

A new emperor, John of Bohemia, offered (1330) a new chance of pacification, eagerly welcomed, to a harassed people, in large part shaken by military dangers in its devotion to republicanism, and weary of local tyrannies.
— from The Evolution of States by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

If you owe ten thousand francs, and your creditors issue writs of attachment on a debt due to you of a thousand francs, each one of them gets so much per cent, ‘so much in the pound,’ in legal phrase; so much (that means) in proportion to the amounts severally claimed by the creditors.
— from A Man of Business by Honoré de Balzac

p = pressure in lb. per sq. ft. v = velocity of wind.
— from The Theory and Practice of Model Aeroplaning by V. E. (Valentine Edward) Johnson

[2] The poet in Leopardi probably somewhat hampered the philosopher; and the philosopher may, now and then, have prevented the poet from revelling in the flights of fancy.
— from The Poems of Leopardi by Giacomo Leopardi

If you have the beef gravy of yesterday, use it instead of butter, and put in less pepper, salt, butter, and water, and only one spoonful of butter.
— from Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt Book Designed as a Supplement to Her Treatise on Domestic Economy by Catharine Esther Beecher

iii. contains Job, Psalms (partly in Latin), Proverbs, Song of Solomon, Ecclesiastes, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel (partly in Latin), the Minor Prophets, the first chapter of St. John’s Gospel, Romans, Corinthians, Philemon, James, Peter, John, Apocalypse (partly in Latin), Jude.—Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, Fourth Report , pp.
— from Lectures on Bible Revision by Samuel Newth