In Spanish America, the limited privileges to English trade, wrung from the necessities of Spain, were abused by an extensive and scarcely disguised smuggling system; and when the exasperated Spanish government gave way to excesses in the mode of suppression, both the minister who counselled peace and the opposition which urged war defended their opinions by alleging the effects of either upon England's sea power and honor.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

" "There is," began Brichot, with a resonant smack upon every syllable, "a rather curious definition of intelligence by that pleasing old anarchist Fénelon...
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

Studding-sails taken in; after yards filled, and ship kept on under easy sail all night; the wind dying away.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

So if you ask me—how to be?” ‘His voice leaped up extraordinarily strong, as though away there in the dusk he had been inspired by some whisper of knowledge.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

Panurge set his two master-fingers upon each side of his mouth, drawing it as much as he was able, and widening it so that he showed all his teeth, and with his two thumbs plucked down his two eyelids very low, making therewith a very ill-favoured countenance, as it seemed to the company.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Two of the most celebrated stood upon each side of the Mediterranean at the noted passage called fretum Gaditanum— κατα τα ακρα του πορθμου .
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

Pent in under every system of moral rules are innumerable persons whom it weighs upon, and goods which it represses; and these are always rumbling and grumbling in the background, and ready for any issue by which they may get free.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

Never a word passed between us; each set his mouth and kept his eyes in front of him, and lifted up his foot and set it down again, like people lifting weights at a country play;* all the while, with the moorfowl crying “peep!”
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

In the month of February, when the heat of the sun scorches up every sort of vegetation in the Desert, they strike their tents, and approach the Negro country to the south, where they reside until the rains commence in the month of July.
— from Life and Travels of Mungo Park by Mungo Park

[1] (202) 667-5534 consulate(s) general: New York Diplomatic representation from the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Ralph FRANK embassy: Pani Pokhari, Kathmandu mailing address: use embassy street address telephone:
— from The 1998 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

It would not work unless every single mint in the world employed it. "
— from Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips

This, if men went no further, must needs be highly provoking to a just and holy God: yea, so highly offensive is it, that, to show the heat of His anger, He saith, 'Indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil,' and this evil with a witness, 'of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile,' that doth evil (Rom 2:8,9).
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan

In those countries where plain chant is exclusively used every sort of device is resorted to on festival days to escape its monotony, e.g. , by harmonies on the chant which are out of all keeping with it, as also by interludes on the grand orgue , by which one-half of the words of the text are absolutely omitted, and the recollections of the world are frequently as vividly brought to mind as by any modern vocal compositions.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 19, April 1874‐September 1874 by Various

Reverence for personality—the steadily deepening sense that every person has a value not to be measured in anything else, and is in himself sacred to God and man—this it is which marks unmistakably every step in the progress of the individual and of the race.
— from Theology and the Social Consciousness A Study of the Relations of the Social Consciousness to Theology (2nd ed.) by Henry Churchill King

She had two masters, and their portraits, ideal Indian heads, painted by some most incompetent artist, stood upon either side of the folding doors.
— from Four Years by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

There shall be an unparalleled execution, something wonderful, magnificent, grand!
— from A Word, Only a Word — Complete by Georg Ebers