" "Indeed, and travel home," said the man, "and quit Paris without having seen the most wonderful thing of all—the real wonder of the present period, created by the power and resolution of one man!"
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

SYN: Step, measure, transaction, performance, procedure, conduct, behavior, action, process.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

He has been imitated by all succeeding writers; and it may be doubted whether from all his successors more maxims of theoretical knowledge, or more rules of practical prudence can be collected than he alone has given to his country.”
— from Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

mech = me mechanisc mechanical , Æ. [ L. ] mēd I. f. ‘ meed ,’ reward, pay, price, compensation, bribe , ÆL (gs. mēdes), B, BH, Bl ; CP.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

All these men of to-day who give themselves out as honest and progressive people can be bought at a rouble a piece, and the distinguishing mark of the 'intellectual' of to-day is that you have to keep strict watch over your pocket when you talk to him, or else he will run off with your purse."
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Bane , sb. destruction, death, bane, poison, PP, C; bone , PP.—AS.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Jabez Burns wrote in 1874: It is preposterous to suppose that household roasting will be continued long in any part of this country, if coffee properly prepared can be had.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Nihil est quod credere de se / Non possit —There is nothing that it ( i.e. , power, potestas ) cannot believe itself capable of.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Thus, talents and the improvement of them, because they contribute to the advantages of life; or the will of God, if agreement with it be taken as the object of the will, without any antecedent independent practical principle, can be motives only by reason of the happiness expected therefrom.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

In none of the relations of life does this so frequently happen as in War, where events are seldom fully known, and still less motives, as the latter have been, perhaps purposely, concealed by the chief actor, or have been of such a transient and accidental character that they have been lost for history.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

an idea which had many imitations and elaborations among the members of both the great political parties, can be traced back to the Columbia College students (p. 120).
— from The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day by Alexander Francis Chamberlain

She soon returned with a bulky newspaper packet partly concealed beneath her cloak.
— from The Daring Twins: A Story for Young Folk by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

In silence they watched the pursuing plane circle back, then slow down for a landing.
— from Riddle of the Storm A Mystery Story for Boys by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

[Ramil HASANOV]; Yox (No) Youth Movement [Ali ISMAYILOV] note: opposition parties regularly factionalize and form new parties; Bahamas, The Free National Movement or FNM [Hubert INGRAHAM]; Progressive Liberal Party or PLP [Perry CHRISTIE] Bahrain political parties prohibited but political societies were legalized per a July 2005 law Bangladesh Awami League or AL [Sheikh HASINA]; Bangladesh Communist Party or BCP [Manjurul A. KHAN]; Bangladesh Nationalist Party or BNP
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Through the present peril cast but one glance into the past,—the recent past.
— from Egmont by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Each organization also has its own banner, very splendid, hung ordinarily beside the guild's altar, but in the civic processions proudly carried by one of the syndics, the craft's officers.
— from Life on a Mediaeval Barony A Picture of a Typical Feudal Community in the Thirteenth Century by William Stearns Davis

[NOTE 1] NOTE 1.—Paukin is PAO-YING-Hien [a populous place, considerably below the level of the canal ( Davis, Sketches , I. pp.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Rustichello of Pisa

There are a hundred and three pieces—plates, platters, cups, bowls.
— from Buried Cities: Pompeii, Olympia, Mycenae (Complete) by Jennie Hall

====================================================================== @Exports - commodities Afghanistan: opium, fruits and nuts, handwoven carpets, wool, cotton, hides and pelts, precious and semi-precious gems Albania: textiles and footwear; asphalt, metals and metallic ores, crude oil; vegetables, fruits, tobacco Algeria: petroleum, natural gas, and petroleum products 97% American Samoa: canned tuna 93% Andorra: tobacco products, furniture Angola: crude oil 90%, diamonds, refined petroleum products, gas, coffee, sisal, fish and fish products, timber, cotton Anguilla: lobster, fish, livestock, salt Antigua and Barbuda: petroleum products 48%, manufactures 23%, machinery and transport equipment 17%, food and live animals 4%, other 8% Argentina: edible oils, fuels and energy, cereals, feed, motor vehicles Armenia: diamonds, scrap metal, machinery and equipment, brandy, copper ore Aruba: live animals and animal products, art and collectibles, machinery and electrical equipment, transport equipment Australia: coal, gold, meat, wool, alumina, iron ore, wheat, machinery and transport equipment Austria: machinery and equipment, paper and paperboard, metal goods, chemicals, iron and steel; textiles, foodstuffs Azerbaijan: oil and gas 75%, machinery, cotton, foodstuffs Bahamas, The: pharmaceuticals, cement, rum, crawfish, refined petroleum products Bahrain: petroleum and petroleum products 61%, aluminum 7% Bangladesh: garments, jute and jute goods, leather, frozen fish and seafood Barbados: sugar and molasses, rum, other foods and beverages, chemicals, electrical components, clothing Belarus: machinery and equipment, chemicals, metals, textiles, foodstuffs Belgium: machinery and equipment, chemicals, diamonds, metals and metal products Belize: sugar, bananas, citrus, clothing, fish products, molasses, wood Benin: cotton, crude oil, palm products, cocoa Bermuda: reexports of pharmaceuticals Bhutan: cardamom, gypsum, timber, handicrafts, cement, fruit, electricity (to India), precious stones, spices Bolivia: soybeans, natural gas, zinc, gold, wood Bosnia and Herzegovina: NA Botswana: diamonds 72%, vehicles, copper, nickel, meat (1998) Brazil: manufactures, iron ore, soybeans, footwear, coffee British Virgin Islands: rum, fresh fish, fruits, animals; gravel, sand Brunei: crude oil, natural gas, refined products Bulgaria: clothing, footwear, iron and steel, machinery and equipment, fuels Burkina Faso: cotton, animal products, gold Burma: apparel 36%, foodstuffs 22%, wood products 21%, precious stones 5% (1999)
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency