This article led my friend Anders to remark that the state of affairs in Germany must, indeed, be splendid if the conditions were really as I described.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

“I’m an unregenerate heel,” he replied, “and I don’t sleep too well nowadays unless you’re beside me.”
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

They had the charge not of one simple movement only, but of many several things to be performed in the battle: as the Spaniards did to their dogs in their new conquest of the Indies, to whom they gave pay and allowed them a share in the spoil; and those animals showed as much dexterity and judgment in pursuing the victory and stopping the pursuit; in charging and retiring, as occasion required; and in distinguishing their friends from their enemies, as they did ardour and fierceness.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

The Turkeys were very doubtful, but finally went with him to where the Wildcat was lying in the road as if dead.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

I saw Mr. Lincoln, drest all in black, with white kid gloves and a claw-hammer coat, receiving, as in duty bound, shaking hands, looking very disconsolate, and as if he would give anything to be somewhere else.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

“He said and did what he thought right while I say and do what I don’t think right; and I don’t know really what I do think. . . .”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

to see his resolution, and indeed discretion, in the wording of his receipt, he would have it most express to my greatest disadvantage that could be, yet so as I could not deny to give it him.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The question, which to any plain American of the nineteenth century seemed as remote as it did to Adams, drew him almost violently to study, once it was posed; and on this point Langleys were as useless as though they were Herbert Spencers or dynamos.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

what a train of vexatious disappointments, in one stage or other of my life, have pursued me from the mere loss, or rather compression, of this one single member,—shall be laid before the reader all in due time.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

I was quite at ease, enjoying myself, and getting altogether as much respect as I deserved....
— from The Hive by Will Levington Comfort

The reminder rankled at intervals during her lessons; and twice Mrs. Dangerfield asked her what was distressing her that she scowled so fiercely.
— from The Terrible Twins by Edgar Jepson

"I've been sort of dieting myself," Jane said, perhaps recalling her past bounty to the cats and chickens at the window of her room, "and I don't need much."
— from Ann Boyd: A Novel by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

As already related, Snowball and the Portuguese girl were the only individuals on board the Pandora who had remained by the wreck, or rather among its débris .
— from The Ocean Waifs: A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea by Mayne Reid

If this takes place in one year, it represents an increased discharge of 150 cubic metres per second irrespective of what passes down the channel of Lake Albert.
— from The Nile in 1904 by Willcocks, William, Sir

I took up the spirit of his remark as I dropped my voice to reply: "Why even then should we not meet?"
— from The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore

Thus he has written opposite the name of the King: "To accomplish something in this world, one has to risk morality and conscience;" opposite the name of Olof: "He who strives to realize an idea develops greatness of personality—he accomplishes good by his personal example, but he is doomed to perish;" opposite that of Bishop Brask: "There is movement in whatever exists—whatever stands still must be crushed;" and opposite that of Gert: "He who wills more than his reason can grasp must go mad.
— from Master Olof: A Drama in Five Acts by August Strindberg

Having a greater force and beauty than other language, and a religious association, it disturbs the even flow of the style.
— from Charmides by Plato

I have to judge with the standard called my reason, and I do not know whether it is right or not; I will admit that.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

country comparison to the world: 37 Transnational Issues ::Colombia Disputes - international: in December 2007, ICJ allocates San Andres, Providencia, and Santa Catalina islands to Colombia under 1928 Treaty but does not rule on 82 degrees W meridian as maritime boundary with Nicaragua; managed dispute with Venezuela over maritime boundary and Venezuelan-administered Los Monjes Islands near the Gulf of Venezuela; Colombian-organized illegal narcotics, guerrilla, and paramilitary activities penetrate all neighboring borders and have caused Colombian citizens to flee mostly into neighboring countries; Colombia, Honduras, Nicaragua, Jamaica, and the US assert various claims to Bajo Nuevo and Serranilla Bank Refugees and internally displaced persons: IDPs: 1.8-3.5 million (conflict between government and illegal armed groups and drug traffickers) (2007)
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency