“It will not be so difficult,” replied D’Artagnan, springing to the ground.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

SYN: Strip, denude, ravage, devastate, rob, havoc, spoliate.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

[Makes her sit down] Rest, dear.
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Naghandà ming mangalígù sa dágat rung Duminggu, We are planning to go swimming on Sunday.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

y a vol ou non, mais ces précisions sont du ressort des juristes.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Geography Nigeria Location: Western Africa, bordering the Gulf of Guinea, between Benin and Cameroon Geographic coordinates: 10 00 N, 8 00 E Map references: Africa Area: total: 923,768 sq km land: 910,768 sq km water: 13,000 sq km Area - comparative: slightly more than twice the size of California Land boundaries: total: 4,047 km border countries: Benin 773 km, Cameroon 1,690 km, Chad 87 km, Niger 1,497 km Coastline: 853 km Maritime claims: territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation Climate: varies; equatorial in south, tropical in center, arid in north Terrain: southern lowlands merge into central hills and plateaus; mountains in southeast, plains in north Elevation extremes: lowest point: Atlantic Ocean 0 m highest point: Chappal Waddi 2,419 m Natural resources: natural gas, petroleum, tin, iron ore, coal, limestone, niobium, lead, zinc, arable land Land use: arable land: 33.02% permanent crops: 3.14% other: 63.84% (2005) Irrigated land: 2,820 sq km (2003) Natural hazards: periodic droughts; flooding Environment - current issues: soil degradation; rapid deforestation; urban air and water pollution; desertification; oil pollution - water, air, and soil; has suffered serious damage from oil spills; loss of arable land; rapid urbanization Environment - international agreements: party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Marine Life Conservation, Ozone Layer Protection, Wetlands signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements Geography - note: the Niger enters the country in the northwest and flows southward through tropical rain forests and swamps to its delta in the Gulf of Guinea People Nigeria Population: 131,859,731 note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2006 est.)
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

And Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, do you think he will be employed again?
— from The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 3, 1854-1861 by Queen of Great Britain Victoria

[16] “Pour se convaincre de l’erreur où l’on tomberait en adoptant cette opinion populaire, il suffit de refléchir d’abord qu’un cercueil n’est pas exactement moulé sur les proportions du corps qu’il contient; que, par consequent, tous les intervalles sont remplis d’air respirable, en quantité très-grande, égale à-peu-près à un cube dont le côté aurait 50 centimètres de hauteur.
— from Premature Burial and How It May Be Prevented by William Tebb

acid rain Netherlands Antilles NA New Caledonia erosion caused by mining exploitation and forest fires New Zealand deforestation; soil erosion; native flora and fauna hard-hit by invasive species Nicaragua deforestation; soil erosion; water pollution Niger overgrazing; soil erosion; deforestation; desertification; wildlife populations (such as elephant, hippopotamus, giraffe, and lion) threatened because of poaching and habitat destruction Nigeria soil degradation; rapid deforestation; urban air and water pollution; desertification; oil pollution - water, air, and soil; has suffered serious damage from oil spills; loss of arable land; rapid urbanization Niue increasing attention to conservationist practices to counter loss of soil fertility from traditional slash and burn agriculture Norfolk Island NA
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

[105] Lettre de La Motte de la Lussière, sans date; Relation de Henri de Tonty écrite de Québec, le 14 Novembre, 1684 (Margry, i. 573).
— from France and England in North America, Part III: La Salle, Discovery of The Great West by Francis Parkman

Never before, not even to Stefan Nikolai, had she disclosed Richard Darcy quite as she had come to know him latterly.
— from Why Joan? by Eleanor Mercein Kelly

On the same day Rodrigo Diaz said to the king— "I have another favour to ask of you, sire."
— from The Cid Campeador: A Historical Romance by Antonio de Trueba

Of course there are many things that contribute to accidents, such as bad machinery, shafts, dirt rolling down, landslides, etc.
— from The Twin Hells A Thrilling Narrative of Life in the Kansas and Missouri Penitentiaries by John N. (John Newton) Reynolds