'All this is very fine, and may be true,' Said Juan; 'but I really don't see how It betters present times with me or you.' 'No?' quoth the other; 'yet you will allow By setting things in their right point of view, Knowledge, at least, is gain'd; for instance, now, We know what slavery is, and our disasters May teach us better to behave when masters.' 'Would we were masters now, if but to try Their present lessons on our Pagan friends here,' Said Juan,—swallowing a heart-burning sigh: 'Heaven help the scholar whom his fortune sends here!'
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

¶ The book includes over 3,800 lines from the Metamorphoses, thus more than meeting the requirements in Ovid of the College Entrance Examination Board, and in addition the following: Selections from Heroides, Amores, Ars Amatoria, Remedia Amoris, Fasti, Tristia, and Epistulae ex Ponto; Life of Ovid, Poetic Forms of Ovid’s Works; with notes on the selections, and vocabulary.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Being broke up there, I with a merry heart home to my office, and thither my wife comes to me, to tell me, that if I would see the handsomest woman in England, I shall come home presently; and who should it be but the pretty lady of our parish, that did heretofore sit on the other side of our church, over against our gallery, that is since married; she with Mrs. Anne Jones, one of this parish, that dances finely, and Mrs. sister did come to see her this afternoon, and so I home and there find Creed also come to me.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

It had been written under hard circumstances and by a pen long out of practice; it had not paid, and its author must work all the harder on the new undertakings.
— from Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume II, Part 2: 1886-1900 by Albert Bigelow Paine

1. (Ph. L.) Oil of pennyroyal, 3 fl.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

She had, at fourteen, a fair acquaintance with American history, and she devised rare amusements, based on the primitive life of our pioneer forefathers.
— from The Cricket by Marjorie Benton Cooke

“To afford ready succor and assistance in time of national or widespread calamities, to gather and dispense the profuse liberality of our people, without waste of time or material, requires the wisdom that comes of experience and permanent organization.”
— from Clara Barton National Historic Site, Maryland Handbook 110 by United States. National Park Service

Court of Appeal Political parties and leaders: characterized by fluid coalitions; Liberal Party, Bartholomew ULUFA'ALU; Solomon Islands National Unity, Reconciliation, and Progressive Party (SINURP), Danny PHILIP (leader of opposition); People's Alliance Party (PAP), leader NA; Group for National Unity and Reconciliation (GNUR), leader NA; National Action Party of Solomon Islands (NAPSI), leader NA; Solomon Islands Labor Party (SILP), leader NA; United Party (UP), leader NA; Nationalist Front for Progress (NFP), Andrew NORI; Labor Party (LP), Joses TUHANUKU; Christian Fellowship, leader NA; National Party, leader NA International organization participation: ACP, AsDB, C, ESCAP, FAO, G-77, IBRD, ICAO, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Intelsat (nonsignatory user), IOC, ITU, Sparteca, SPC, SPF, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UPU, WFTU, WHO, WMO, WTrO Diplomatic representation in the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Stephen Rex HOROI (represents the country as both the Permanent Representative to the UN and the ambassador to the US) chancery: Permanent Mission of the Solomon Islands to the UN, 820 Second Avenue, Suite 800, New York, NY 10017 telephone:
— from The 1998 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The opera was got up in a manner that almost defies description; parts left out, others put in, transpositions, interpolations, and, in short, nearly every thing that able management would have forbidden was witnessed; except the character of Roderick Dhu , which D ONZELLI performed à merveille .
— from The Harmonicon. Part the First by Various

So that only when by Heaven's grace the very beautiful are also very good, is it time for us to go down on our knees, and say our prayers in thankfulness and adoration; for the divine has been permitted to make itself manifest for a while in the perishable likeness of our poor humanity.
— from Peter Ibbetson by George Du Maurier

A good liniment to use on the throat and to be well rubbed in is mustard and water rubbed on and allowed to remain half an hour and then washed off, or two parts linseed oil, one part turpentine, and one part solution of ammonia.
— from Riding and Driving by Edward L. (Edward Lowell) Anderson

In places it passes for a space through patches of old woodland, showing by the deep dingles, the pleasant lack of ordered planting, that it is a tract of ancient forest-land never disparked.
— from The Silent Isle by Arthur Christopher Benson