Saincteté a fait son Inquisiteur, ne se sauroit excuser quil nayt grandement failly ayant layssé perdre une si belle occasion dun exemple si salutayre et qui luy pouvoit porter tant dhonneur et de reputation, mais quil monstre bien que luy mesme favorise les hereticques , dautant que lors que ce scandale advynt, il estoit seul pres du roy, sans que personne luy peust resister ne l'empescher duser de la puyssance que sadicte Saincteté luy a donnée."
— from History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird

Committees were appointed and subscriptions of money secured, postmasters designated, riders secured and service established, which was instantly patronized.
— from The American Postal Service History of the Postal Service from the Earliest Times by Louis Melius

Active in the execution of a scheme she had so promptly devised, Rebekah states to Jacob all that had passed between his father and his elder brother; proposing, or rather commanding him to go to the flock with all possible despatch, and fetch two kids of the goats; "and I," says she, "will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth; and thou shall bring it to thy father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death."
— from Female Scripture Biography, Volume I by F. A. (Francis Augustus) Cox

Nobody but S....y has done any thing worth a slice of bookseller's pudding, and he has not luck enough to be found out in doing a good thing," implies that Byron had read and admired Southey's Roderick —an inference which is curiously confirmed by a memorandum in Murray's handwriting: "When Southey's poem, Don Roderick ( sic ), was published, Lord Byron sent in the middle of the night to ask John Murray if he had heard any opinion of it, for he thought it one of the finest poems he had ever read."
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

federation Rwanda: republic; presidential, multiparty system Saint Helena: NA Saint Kitts and Nevis: constitutional monarchy with Westminster-style parliament Saint Lucia: Westminster-style parliamentary democracy Saint Pierre and Miquelon: NA Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: parliamentary democracy; independent sovereign state within the Commonwealth Samoa: constitutional monarchy under native chief San Marino: independent republic Sao Tome and Principe: republic Saudi Arabia: monarchy Senegal: republic under multiparty democratic rule Seychelles: republic Sierra Leone: constitutional democracy Singapore: parliamentary republic Slovakia: parliamentary democracy Slovenia: parliamentary democratic republic Solomon Islands: parliamentary democracy Somalia: parliamentary South Africa: republic Spain: parliamentary monarchy Sri Lanka: republic Sudan: transitional - ruling military junta took power in 1989; government is dominated by members of Sudan's National Islamic Front (NIF), a fundamentalist political organization, which uses the National Congress Party (NCP) as its legal front Suriname: constitutional democracy Svalbard: NA Swaziland: monarchy; independent member of Commonwealth Sweden: constitutional monarchy Switzerland: federal republic Syria: republic under military regime since March 1963 Tajikistan: republic Tanzania: republic Thailand: constitutional monarchy Togo: republic under transition to multiparty democratic rule Tokelau: NA Tonga: hereditary constitutional monarchy Trinidad and Tobago: parliamentary democracy Tunisia: republic Turkey: republican parliamentary democracy Turkmenistan: republic Turks and Caicos Islands: NA Tuvalu: constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary democracy; began debating republic status in 1992 Uganda: republic Ukraine: republic United Arab Emirates: federation with specified powers delegated to the UAE federal government and other powers reserved to member emirates United Kingdom: constitutional monarchy United States: federal republic; strong democratic tradition Uruguay: constitutional republic Uzbekistan: republic; effectively authoritarian presidential rule, with little power outside the executive branch Vanuatu: republic Venezuela: federal republic Vietnam: Communist state Virgin Islands: NA Wallis and Futuna: NA Western Sahara: legal status of territory and question of sovereignty unresolved; territory contested by Morocco and Polisario Front (Popular Front for the Liberation of the Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro), which in February 1976 formally proclaimed a government-in-exile of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR); territory partitioned between Morocco and Mauritania in April 1976, with Morocco acquiring northern two-thirds; Mauritania, under pressure from Polisario guerrillas, abandoned all claims to its portion in August 1979; Morocco moved to occupy that sector shortly thereafter and has since asserted administrative control; the Polisario's government-in-exile was seated as an OAU member in 1984; guerrilla activities continued sporadically, until a UN-monitored cease-fire was implemented 6 September 1991 Yemen: republic Yugoslavia: republic Zambia: republic Zimbabwe: parliamentary democracy Taiwan:
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency