“No, you'd better wait a little,” the priest pronounced at last, “for he's obviously not in a fit state.”
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Kâl-detsi′yûñyĭ—“Where the bones are,” from kâ′lû , bone, and detsi′yûñyĭ , “where ( yĭ ) they ( de —plural prefix) are lying.”
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

We may regard this psychical power as like a vast reservoir of consciousness ever trying to force itself through matter, the walls of the reservoir.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

they laugh at such a pitiful pittance, as laying claim themselves to the whole world for their possession.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

He could not deny the justice of my request, so with a rather rueful face he went off to his bedroom, from which he returned presently pulling a large tin box behind him.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

"Podbliudni pessni," are literally "dish songs," or songs used with dishes (of water) during the "sviatki" or Holy Nights, which extend from Christmas to Twelfth Night, for purposes of divination.
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

The matchmaker a fortnight sped, Her suit before my parents pressing: At last my father gave his blessing, And bitter tears of fright I shed.
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

Adv. abruptly, unexpectedly, surprisingly; plump, pop, a l'improviste[Fr], unawares; without notice, without warning, without a "by your leave"; like a thief in the night, like a thunderbolt; in an unguarded moment; suddenly &c. (instantaneously) 113.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

When they reached the interior of the principal pavilion, a large concourse of handmaids and waiting maids, got up in gala dress, were already there to greet them.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

Let us now consider some of the opinions to which a persevering, patient, and learned—but by no means consistent—series of investigations has led.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

_#_Industrial production: growth rate - 0.7% (1988); accounts for 30% of GDP _#_Electricity: 28,000 kW capacity; 24 million kWh produced, 5 kWh per capita (1989) _#_Industries: textiles,cigarettes, construction materials, beverages, food production, petroleum _#_Agriculture: small farms produce 90% of agricultural output; production is dominated by food crops—corn, sorghum, cassava, beans, and rice; cash crops include cotton, palm oil, and peanuts; poultry and livestock output has not kept up with consumption _#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $46 million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-88), $1.1 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $19 million; Communist countries (1970-89), $101 million _#_Currency: Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (plural—francs); 1 CFA franc (CFAF)
— from The 1991 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

SPPF 21, DP 1; seats by party (awarded) - SPPF 6, DP 4, UO 1 note: the 11 awarded seats are apportioned according to the share of each party in the total vote Judicial branch: Court of Appeal; Supreme Court Political parties and leaders: ruling party - Seychelles People's Progressive Front or SPPF
— from The 1997 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Parliament, in fact, assumed the dictatorship of literature, and exercised supreme jurisdiction over author, printer, publisher, and licenser.
— from Books Condemned to be Burnt by James Anson Farrer

Lincoln appreciated better than many of his fellows the sentiment of the South, but it is often hard for men, not in immediate contact with a school of thought which seems to them thoroughly perverse, to appreciate its pervasive power, and Lincoln was inclined to stake much upon the hope that reason will prevail.
— from Abraham Lincoln by Charnwood, Godfrey Rathbone Benson, Baron

Political parties and leaders: Afar National Democratic Party or ANDP; Benishangul Gumuz People's Democratic Unity Front or BGPDUF
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

THE LAND.—The desire to encourage the home-maker has long been the motive power behind our public land policy, but unfortunately many of our earlier land laws did not prevent peculators and large corporations from fraudulently securing control of land intended for the bona fide or genuine settler.
— from Problems in American Democracy by Thames Williamson

They impelled him to lead a retired life of constant labour, carried on to the utmost limits of his physical power, a life which signally falsified his melancholy prophecy.
— from Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Charles Darwin

It is easy to see how the popular idea of incompatibility has arisen in a case like that above stated of the Camp Farm tenant, eating up year by year all the fertility stored up in the land during the previous period, and letting nearly all the sewage run to waste, because its scientific application would cost much in thought and labour.
— from Natural & Artificial Sewage Treatment by Alfred Stowell Jones

For he was—so he said—a philosophic politician; and, like most other philosophers and politicians,
— from Little Peter: A Christmas Morality for Children of any Age by Lucas Malet

Legal system: socialist, based on French and Islamic law; judicial review of legislative acts in ad hoc Constitutional Council composed of various public officials, including several Supreme Court justices; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal Executive branch: chief of state: President Abdelaziz BOUTEFLIKA (since 28 April 1999) head of government: Prime Minister Abdelaziz BELKHADEM cabinet: Cabinet of Ministers appointed by the president elections: president elected by popular vote for a five-year term (eligible for a second term); election last held 8 April 2004 (next to be held in April 2009); prime minister appointed by the president election results: Abdelaziz BOUTEFLIKA reelected president for second term; percent of vote - Abdelaziz BOUTEFLIKA 85%, Ali BENFLIS 6.4%, Abdellah DJABALLAH 5% Legislative branch: bicameral Parliament consisting of the National People's Assembly or Al-Majlis Ech-Chaabi Al-Watani (389 seats - formerly 380 seats; members elected by popular vote to serve five-year terms) and the Council of Nations (Senate) (144 seats; one-third of the members appointed by the president, two-thirds elected by indirect vote; members serve six-year terms; the constitution requires half the council to be renewed every three years) elections: National People's Assembly - last held 30 May 2002 (next to be held in 2007); Council of Nations (Senate) - last held 30 December 2003 (next to be held in 2006) election results: National People's Assembly - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - FLN 199, RND 47, Islah 43, MSP 38, PT 21, FNA 8, EnNahda 1, PRA 1, MEN 1, independents 30; Council of Nations - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party NA Judicial branch: Supreme Court Political parties and leaders: Algerian National Front or FNA
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency