Tourists do not put on evening clothes except in very fashionable centers, such as London, Paris, Monte Carlo or Deauville, and then only if staying at an ultra fashionable hotel.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

But there can be no doubt that embryonic, excluding larval characters, are of the highest value for classification, not only with animals but with plants.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

He visited Florentine Cabirolle, when the Marests and Oscar Husson were there, and appeared often on the rue Saint-Georges, at the home of Esther van Gobseck, who was already much visited by Blondet, Bixiou and Lousteau.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

I ceased visiting Father Castel, and on that account, going to the college of the Jesuits, where I knew nobody but himself.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

He was decidedly getting in his wheat under very favorable circumstances.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

”—AEneid, iii. 395] the event often justifies a very foolish conduct; our interposition is little more than as it were a running on by rote, and more commonly a consideration of custom and example, than of reason.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

The fire began to rage, and the earth to tremble, high rose the flame to heaven itself: there ventured few chiefs of people through that fire to ride, or to leap over.
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

" Dr. Véron who publishes in his "Mémoires" the Morny-Maupas despatch, adds: "M. du Maupas sent to look for Victor Hugo at the house of his brother-in-law, M. Victor Foucher, Councillor to the Court of Cassation.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

Child-murder, the very frequent cruelty of mothers to their children, the opposition of very young women to bearing and bringing up children (cf.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Along the Bayou or Lake St. Joseph were many very fine cotton plantations, and I recall that of a Mr. Bowie, brother-in-law of the Hon.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

We made signs of friendship to them, and found them a very frank, civil, and friendly sort of people.
— from The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton by Daniel Defoe

Two pocket-books and four watches were the result of that evening’s enterprise—a very fair compensation for five minutes’ work.
— from The Underground World: A mirror of life below the surface by Thomas Wallace Knox

These arches are again subdivided into two smaller round-headed arches, full of very fine carved work.
— from Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire by H. J. L. J. (Henri Jean Louis Joseph) Massé

Barton jumped into the boat and away we went, Thornton steering, Mrs. Bagshaw, her daughter, and the Misses Delamere in the stern, Barton stroke, myself three, Glenville two, and Hawkstone bow—a very fine crew, let me tell you, for we all knew how to handle an oar,—especially in smooth water.
— from Interludes being Two Essays, a Story, and Some Verses by Horace Smith

sq km Area - comparative: slightly smaller than Texas Land boundaries: total: 4,566 km border countries: Belarus 891 km, Hungary 103 km, Moldova 940 km, Poland 428 km, Romania (south) 176 km, Romania (southwest) 362 km, Russia 1,576 km, Slovakia 90 km Coastline: 2,782 km Maritime claims: territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200-m or to the depth of exploitation Climate: temperate continental; Mediterranean only on the southern Crimean coast; precipitation disproportionately distributed, highest in west and north, lesser in east and southeast; winters vary from cool along the Black Sea to cold farther inland; summers are warm across the greater part of the country, hot in the south Terrain: most of Ukraine consists of fertile plains (steppes) and plateaus, mountains being found only in the west (the Carpathians), and in the Crimean Peninsula in the extreme south Elevation extremes: lowest point: Black Sea 0 m highest point:
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The village folks calls him the Softy, but there couldn’t nothing be proved against him.
— from The Cuckoo in the Nest, v. 1/2 by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

In Leland's "Itinerary" the bishop's epitaph is preserved: "Hic jacet Edmundus de Stafforde intumulatus, Quondam profundus legum doctor reputatus, Verbis facundus, Comitum de stirpe creatus, Felix et mundus
— from Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Exeter A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Percy Addleshaw