[155] When once a pair of wire-tailed swallows have made up their minds to nest in a certain spot they are not easily deterred from carrying out their intention.
— from Glimpses of Indian Birds by Douglas Dewar

Nationality: noun: Greek(s) adjective: Greek Ethnic groups: Greek 98%, other 2% note: the Greek Government states there are no ethnic divisions in Religions:
— from The 2000 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

THE GREAT ISBURN RUBY Mr. Irving Isburn, the proprietor of the great detective bureau was over seventy years of age, and, although he still had a general supervision over the business, and was in his office for a short time anyway, nearly every day, he was leaving the details more and more to his subordinates.
— from Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason Corner Folks by Charles Felton Pidgin

Nationality: noun: Greek(s) adjective: Greek Ethnic groups: Greek 98%, other 2% note: the Greek Government states there are no ethnic divisions in Greece Religions: Greek Orthodox 98%, Muslim 1.3%, other 0.7% Languages: Greek 99% (official), English, French Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 97% male: 98.5% female: 96% (1999) Government Greece Country name: conventional long form: Hellenic Republic conventional short form:
— from The 2002 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Polynesian 78%, Chinese 12%, local French 6%, metropolitan French 4% Gabon: Bantu tribes including four major tribal groupings (Fang, Eshira, Bapounou, Bateke), other Africans and Europeans 154,000, including 10,700 French and 11,000 persons of dual nationality Gambia, The: African 99% (Mandinka 42%, Fula 18%, Wolof 16%, Jola 10%, Serahuli 9%, other 4%), non-African 1% Gaza Strip: Palestinian Arab and other 99.4%, Jewish 0.6% Georgia: Georgian 70.1%, Armenian 8.1%, Russian 6.3%, Azeri 5.7%, Ossetian 3%, Abkhaz 1.8%, other 5% Germany: German 91.5%, Turkish 2.4%, other 6.1% (made up largely of Serbo-Croatian, Italian, Russian, Greek, Polish, Spanish) Ghana: black African 99.8% (major tribes - Akan 44%, Moshi-Dagomba 16%, Ewe 13%, Ga 8%), European and other 0.2% Gibraltar: Spanish, Italian, English, Maltese, Portuguese Greece: Greek 98%, other 2% note: the Greek Government states there are no ethnic divisions in Greece Greenland: Greenlander 88% (Inuit and Greenland-born whites), Danish and others 12% (January 2000) Grenada: black 82% some South Asians (East Indians) and Europeans, trace Arawak/Carib Amerindian Guadeloupe: black or mulatto 90%, white 5%, East Indian, Lebanese, Chinese less than 5% Guam: Chamorro 47%, Filipino 25%, white 10%, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other 18% Guatemala: Mestizo (mixed Amerindian-Spanish or assimilated Amerindian - in local Spanish called Ladino), approximately 55%, Amerindian or predominantly Amerindian, approximately 43%, whites and others 2% Guernsey: UK and Norman-French descent Guinea: Peuhl 40%, Malinke 30%, Soussou 20%, smaller ethnic groups 10% Guinea-Bissau: African 99% (Balanta 30%, Fula 20%, Manjaca 14%, Mandinga 13%, Papel 7%), European and mulatto less than 1% Guyana: East Indian 49%, black 32%, mixed 12%, Amerindian 6%, white and Chinese 1% Haiti: black 95%, mulatto and white 5% Holy See (Vatican City): Italians, Swiss, other Honduras: mestizo (mixed Amerindian and European) 90%, Amerindian 7%, black 2%, white 1% Hong Kong: Chinese 95%, other 5% Hungary: Hungarian 89.9%, Roma 4%, German 2.6%, Serb 2%, Slovak 0.8%, Romanian 0.7% Iceland: homogeneous mixture of descendants of Norse and Celts India: Indo-Aryan 72%, Dravidian 25%, Mongoloid and other 3% (2000)
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Nationality: noun: Greek(s) adjective: Greek Ethnic groups: Greek 98%, Turkish and other 2% note: the Greek Government states there are no ethnic divisions in Greece Religions:
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The origin of these circular parapets is probably due to the heat or vapours from the crater, penetrating and hardening the sides to a nearly equal depth, and afterwards to the mountain being slowly acted on by the weather, which would leave the hardened part, projecting in the form of a cylinder or circular parapet.
— from Volcanic Islands by Charles Darwin

There were no men on our island, else I should have remembered seeing them; and nothing ever disturbed our slumbers, save the wild pigs that sometimes went about routing and grunting, or a cry from one of our band.
— from The Cockatoo's Story by Cupples, George, Mrs.

If I should go to sleep, as some think, and not even dream about you, as I dream and weep every night now!
— from Robert Falconer by George MacDonald

Those States, like others, are not able to pay immediately all the debts which the war brought on them; but they are proceeding rapidly in that payment, and will, perhaps, get through it more speedily than any nation ever did before.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20) by Thomas Jefferson