The skill these scenes to raise the skill e'en essays to conceive outvies!
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

They tiptoed away; so I seen, easy enough, that they’d shoved in there to do up your majesty’s room, or something, s’posing you was up; and found you warn’t up, and so they was hoping to slide out of the way of trouble without waking you up, if they hadn’t already waked you up.”
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

These two great bondes, I would say, Equal each other every way.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

"I do not know—I do not understand——" "It is surely easy enough to understand," said Wyvis, vehemently.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

The patterns are mainly, though not exclusively, rectilinear, and sometimes extremely elaborate.
— from History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. Volume 1 (of 2) by H. B. (Henry Beauchamp) Walters

[1] (202) 328-3516 consulate(s) general : New York consulate(s): Washington, DC Diplomatic representation from the US: the US embassy in Kabul has been closed since January 1989 due to security concerns Flag description: three equal horizontal bands of green (top), white, and black with a gold emblem centered on the three bands; the emblem features a temple-like structure with Islamic inscriptions above and below, encircled by a wreath on the left and right and by a bolder Islamic inscription above, all of which are encircled by two crossed scimitars Economy Economy - overview: Afghanistan is an extremely poor, landlocked country, highly dependent on farming and livestock raising (sheep and goats).
— from The 1997 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The following are some of the rules of street etiquette: Except in a case of necessity, you should not stop a business man on the street during business hours.
— from How to Behave: A Pocket Manual of Republican Etiquette, and Guide to Correct Personal Habits Embracing an Exposition of the Principles of Good Manners; Useful Hints on the Care of the Person, Eating, Drinking, Exercise, Habits, Dress, Self-culture, and Behavior at Home; the Etiquette of Salutations, Introductions, Receptions, Visits, Dinners, Evening Parties, Conversation, Letters, Presents, Weddings, Funerals, the Street, the Church, Places of Amusement, Traveling, Etc., with Illustrative Anecdotes, a Chapter on Love and Courtship, and Rules of Order for Debating Societies by Samuel R. (Samuel Roberts) Wells

Up to the time that he entered the Dresden school, in his ninth year, he had received absolutely no instruction in music, and during his five years of school life a few desultory piano lessons from a young tutor, who used to help him at home with his school exercises, embraced the whole of his musical tuition up to the age of fourteen.
— from Wagner as I Knew Him by Ferdinand Praeger

Its teeth and ears are also different, for it has a very small external ear, which the other has not; its incisive teeth are likewise terminated with two points, while the teeth of the other are smooth and sharp, like those of the dog, wolf, and other quadrupeds.
— from Buffon's Natural History. Volume 09 (of 10) Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c by Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

psalm, in the expression, “ante faciem frigoris ejus quis sustinebit”? Does not the psalm recount to the Jewish people, in rapid allusions, all that God had done for them, in contrast to the chastisements that had befallen other nations; and if it is objected that there is no allusion to the Deluge, unless in its indirect and beneficial influences, in the words, “flavit spiritus ejus et fluent aquæ,” I reply that to the survivors, the Deluge, regarded largely, and in its permanent effects, was no calamity, but the commencement of a new and more favoured era.
— from Tradition, Principally with Reference to Mythology and the Law of Nations by Arundell of Wardour, John Francis Arundell, Baron

It is obvious that this attempt could be made by no power to so great advantage as by the United States, whose constitutional system excludes every idea of distant colonial dependencies.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Millard Fillmore

But now we have the last dear ingots gain'd, And the free vein (however rich) is drein'd; Though what thou hast bequeathed us, no space Of this worlds span of time shall ere embrace.
— from Lucasta by Richard Lovelace