The little information gleaned from the Southern press indicating no great obstacle to your progress, I have directed your mails (which had been previously collected in Baltimore by Colonel Markland, special-agent of the Post-Office Department) to be sent as far as the blockading squadron off Savannah, to be forwarded to you as soon as heard from on the coast.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

On the assumptions (1) that we do not specially favor Germany over ourselves in supplies of such raw materials as cotton and wool (the world's supply of which is limited), (2) that France, having secured the iron-ore deposits, makes a serious attempt to secure the blast-furnaces and the steel trade also, (3) that Germany is not encouraged and assisted to undercut the iron and other trades of the Allies in overseas market, and (4) that a substantial preference is not given to German goods in the British Empire, it is evident by examination of the specific items that not much is practicable.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

The water of the west, in some places, is not good, but they make it up here by plenty of very fair wine, and inexhaustible quantities of the best beer in the world.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Ang táwung dahut dílì manggihatágun, A stingy person is not generous.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Often she persisted in not going out, then, stifling, threw open the windows and put on light dresses.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

246 “The depth of this single phalanx is not given, nor do we know the exact width of the ground which it occupied.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

"To be mistaken in believing that the Christian religion is true," says Pascal, "is no great loss to anyone; but how dreadful to be mistaken in believing it to be false!"
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

The little information gleaned from the Southern press, indicating no great obstacle to your progress, I have directed your mails (which had been previously collected at Baltimore by Colonel Markland, Special Agent of the Post Office Department) to be sent as far as the blockading squadron off Savannah, to be forwarded to you as soon as heard from on the coast.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Telephone system: adequate, automatic domestic system and adequate international facilities domestic: automatic exchange facilities international: radiotelephone; microwave radio relay; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) Radio broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 5, shortwave 0 (1998) Radios: 37,000 (1997) Television broadcast stations: 1 (plus three low-power repeaters) (1997) Televisions: 10,000 (1997) Internet Service Providers (ISPs): NA @Gibraltar:Transportation Railways: total: NA km; 1.000-m gauge system in dockyard area only Highways: total: 49.9 km paved: 49.9 km unpaved: 0 km Pipelines: 0 km Ports and harbors: Gibraltar Merchant marine: total: 26 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 477,183 GRT/752,644 DWT ships by type: bulk 1, cargo 2, chemical tanker 2, container 4, multi-functional large load carrier 1, passenger 1, petroleum tanker 13, roll-on/roll-off 2 (1999 est.)
— from The 2000 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

"Sure, Paulina is no good, you bet; but see, look at her house—dere is no Rutenian house like dat, so beeg.
— from The Foreigner: A Tale of Saskatchewan by Ralph Connor

Some protection is now given to vessels by a couple of breakwaters forming a harbour.
— from Peeps at Many Lands—India by John Finnemore

When troops bivouac for the night the necessity for extensive sanitary precautions is not great; however, shallow sink trenches should be dug to prevent general pollution of the vicinity.
— from Infantry Drill Regulations, United States Army, 1911 Corrected to April 15, 1917 (Changes Nos. 1 to 19) by United States. War Department

At one time attempts to destroy the contraction of the urethra, by the application of caustic to the stricture, were in great vogue; but the total inefficiency of such practice is now generally acknowledged.
— from Elements of Surgery by Robert Liston