Helen sat poring over them before she could read, not at first for the story, but to find words she knew; and the definition of new words which is implied in their context, in their position with reference to words known, added to Helen's vocabulary.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

From their counsel, or their conversation, she knew she could receive no assistance, their tenderness and sorrow must add to her distress, while her self-command would neither receive encouragement from their example nor from their praise.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

“Why, it's Hurstwood!” said Cargill, remembering now, and sorry that he had not recognised him quickly enough in the beginning to have avoided this meeting.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

"You shall come round now, and see what we have done for you, and give us your opinion," said he, politely.
— from In Silk Attire: A Novel by William Black

‘It is very apparent, that such confession requires not any further proceedings but the passing of that sentence which the enormity of the crime deserves.
— from The Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Vol. 02 [of 13] Containing an account of the cruel civil wars between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy, of the possession of Paris and Normandy by the English, their expulsion thence, and of other memorable events that happened in the kingdom of France, as well as in other countries by Enguerrand de Monstrelet

y Costa Rica: democratic republic Cote d'Ivoire: republic; multiparty presidential regime established 1960 Croatia: presidential/parliamentary democracy Cuba: Communist state Cyprus: republic note: a disaggregation of the two ethnic communities inhabiting the island began following the outbreak of communal strife in 1963; this separation was further solidified after the Turkish intervention in July 1974 after a Greek junta-based coup attempt gave the Turkish Cypriots de facto control in the north; Greek Cypriots control the only internationally recognized government; on 15 November 1983 Turkish Cypriot "President" Rauf DENKTASH declared independence and the formation of a "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus" (TRNC), recognized only by Turkey; both sides publicly support a settlement based on a federation (Greek Cypriot position) or confederation (Turkish Cypriot position) Czech Republic: parliamentary democracy Denmark: constitutional monarchy Djibouti: republic Dominica: parliamentary democracy; republic within the Commonwealth Dominican Republic: representative democracy Ecuador: republic Egypt: republic El Salvador: republic Equatorial Guinea: republic Eritrea: transitional government note: following a successful referendum on independence for the Autonomous Region of Eritrea on 23-25 April 1993, a National Assembly, composed entirely of the People's Front for Democracy and Justice or PFDJ, was established as a transitional legislature; a Constitutional Commission was also established to draft a constitution; ISAIAS Afworki was elected president by the transitional legislature; the constitution, ratified in May 1997, did not enter into effect, pending parliamentary and presidential elections; parliamentary elections have now been scheduled to take place in December 2001 Estonia: parliamentary democracy Ethiopia: federal republic Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas): NA Faroe Islands: NA Fiji: republic note: military coup leader Maj. Gen. Sitiveni RABUKA formally declared Fiji a republic on 6 October 1987
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

For instance, all sweet cakes, raisins, nuts, apples and other fruits were sure death for those troubled with the great army epidemic—dysentery.
— from The Boy Spy A substantially true record of secret service during the war of the rebellion, a correct account of events witnessed by a soldier by Joseph Orton Kerbey

it followed that the maximum yield was obtained when two dynamo machines (of similar construction) rotated nearly at the same speed, but that under these conditions the amount of force transmitted was a minimum.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 by Various

Science cannot remain neutral, and the trustees, the wardens, orderlies, nurses, the cooks, and all the persons employed in the hospital service, should be brothers and sisters of one and the same order, the voluntary subjects of the same rule, all pervaded by the same religious sentiment and corporate spirit, while friendly rivalries obtain between the different institutions.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 08, October, 1868, to March, 1869. by Various

If the ships were in one line, and the headmost first attacked, she could receive no assistance from the vessel astern, for she would lie between the stern ship and the boats, and receive the fire which might be directed for them.
— from Torpedo War, and Submarine Explosions by Robert Fulton

On the same day the 9000 men of the second column reached Nevel, and on the 14th its junction with the main force was practically complete.
— from Napoleon's Russian Campaign of 1812 by Edward (Edward A.) Foord