They sought only to make it clear (a point of considerable importance to Great Britain) that reparation for damage done to non-combatants and their property was not limited to invaded territory (as it would have been by the Fourteen Points unqualified), but applied equally to all such damage, whether "by land, by sea, or from the air" It was only at a later stage that a general popular demand for an indemnity, covering the full costs of the war, made it politically desirable to practise dishonesty and to try to discover in the written word what was not there.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

Their total cost is simply the sum of all connect charges, any network charges (to CompuServe and others), part of the basic subscription fee, and local phone rates (for direct dialing to the service, or to reach the network's node).
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

All his cattle were now gathered in one immense herd, branded, and ready for division during the following few days.
— from Cowboy Dave; Or, The Round-up at Rolling River by Frank V. Webster

In some the subordinate tales are represented as being told by one or more individuals to serve a particular object, by the moral, or warning, which they are supposed to convey; as in the case of the Book of Sindibád , in which a prince is falsely accused by one of his father’s ladies, and defended by the king’s seven vazírs, or counsellors, who each in turn relate to the king two stories, the purport of which being to warn him to put no faith in the accusations of women, to which the lady replies by stories representing the wickedness and perfidy of men; and that of the [pg 124] Bakhtyár Náma , in which a youth, falsely accused of having violated the royal harem, obtains for himself a respite from death during ten days by relating to the king each day a story designed to caution him against precipitation in matters of importance.
— from Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers by W. A. (William Alexander) Clouston

It would not do to miss the first cast and let the rope fall dragging down the roof.
— from Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West by William MacLeod Raine

One of these ran from Dowgate Dock to St. Mary Overies; the other crossed the river lower down, nearer the Tower.
— from South London by Walter Besant

These are minimum requirements, as I see it, and with regular feed deliveries directly to the poultry house, running water and other labor-saving
— from A Living from the Land by William Budington Duryee

How often in the still, rich frosted days, Down the slow hours of some tranced afternoon, Have my feet wandered in a mad, sweet maze, Hunting the wind that, like some haunting tune, Peopled with memories all the great, gold swoon Of rustling woodlands, streams and leafy ways, Ever eluding, fluting, sweet, before Fading to rest at last in gold-green leafy core.
— from The Dread Voyage: Poems by Wilfred Campbell

I sent the servants away and her maid to bed, so little reason for disquietude did there seem.
— from The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Volume 2 of 2) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Via Egnatia, the great Roman highway to the east, is still used; it runs from Durazzo (Dyrrhachium) to Elbassan and Ochrida.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg