What’s the French for fiddle-de-dee?’ ‘Fiddle-de-dee’s not English,’ Alice replied gravely.
— from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

But classifying is also naming, for a general idea has no existence and reality except in and by the word which expresses it and which alone makes its individuality.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

There was not even a reference to the Beazeleys.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

Development at first was apparently slow, as no exports are recorded until the beginning of the nineteenth century; so that the history of Brazil's coffee trade is a matter entirely of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Then, there being now, by reason of the words that Pietro had 460 spoken, no longer any means of making a mare of the young woman, she donned her clothes, woebegone and disconsolate, and Pietro, continuing to ply his old trade with an ass, as he was used, betook himself, in company with Dom Gianni, to the Bitonto fair, nor ever again required him of such a service."
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

NICK, exact amount; right moment; "set in the—," meaning uncertain.
— from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

With regard to the first point, neither of the two opponents is an abstract person to the other, not even as regards that factor in the sum of resistance which does not depend on objective things, viz., the Will.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

Sail after sail, for the hundredth time, in fair weather and in foul, we furled now for the last time together, and came down and took the warp ashore, manned the capstan, and with a chorus which waked up half the North End, and rang among the buildings in the dock, we hauled her in to the wharf.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

Whittier and Longfellow and Bryant lead their readers to look on nature with new eyes, as Ruskin opened the eyes of Henry Ward Beecher.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Imports: $NA Imports - commodities: coal, gasoline, oil, machinery and equipment Imports - partners: UK (regarded as internal trade) Debt - external: $NA Economic aid - recipient: $NA Currency: British pound (GBP); note - there is also a Guernsey pound Currency code: GBP Exchange rates:
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The 3rd Zouaves marched past the jeering veterans, grinding their teeth, but making no effort at retort.
— from Ailsa Paige: A Novel by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

"Whilst I was takin' a little nap," went on Mrs. Nitschkan excitedly, "a rascal brother of Gallito's who shouldn't never have been let out of jail cut the pocket clean out of my skirt and stole my roll.
— from The Black Pearl by Woodrow, Wilson, Mrs.

She thought of her father—the needy English artist, Robert Smeath, with just a streak, and no more than a streak, of talent, who had become rapidly "Italianate" in the Elizabethan sense—had dropped, that is, the English virtues, without ever acquiring the Italian.
— from The Mating of Lydia by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Budget: revenues: $31.9 million expenditures: $30.4 million, including capital expenditures of $NA (1995) Industries: tourism, offshore financial services Industrial production growth rate: NA% Electricity-capacity: 4,000 kW (1995) Electricity-production: 5 million kWh (1995) Electricity-consumption per capita: 359 kWh (1995) Agriculture-products: corn, beans, cassava, citrus fruits; fish Exports: total value: $6.8 million (f.o.b., 1993) commodities: lobster, dried and fresh conch, conch shells partners: US, UK Imports: total value: $42.8 million (1993) commodities: food and beverages, tobacco, clothing, manufactures, construction materials partners: US, UK Debt-external: $NA Economic aid: recipient: ODA, $NA Currency: 1 United States dollar (US$) = 100 cents Exchange rates: US currency is used Fiscal year: calendar year Communications Telephones: 1,359 (1988 est.)
— from The 1998 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

This method failed to give satisfactory results, and it was found later that the declination and polar axis were not exactly at right angles.
— from Photographs of Nebulæ and Clusters, Made with the Crossley Reflector by James Edward Keeler

[230] Every year on the fourteenth of February, as the postmaster's keen-eyed wife had noted, Elmiry Ann Rogers had received a valentine.
— from The White Shield by Myrtle Reed

The latter are represented by the single genus Haeckeliana (Pl. 114 ), and possess a spherical shell with numerous small dimples between the circles of pores, and numerous simple radial spines which do not exhibit a regular arrangement.
— from Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, Second Part: Subclass Osculosa; Index Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-76, Vol. XVIII by Ernst Haeckel