Page 56, Sentence 9?

[Crystal Cuckoo]

"Attendance is quite voluntary, except for those picked out for acadmic training, but men and women of all classes go crowding in to hear them - I mean, different people go to different lectures, just as the spirit moves them."

Utopia - Thomas More

 

[Smeeeeg]

"She had secured commutation of the death sentence of one of the decade's most notorious criminals, a man who had killed his best friend and sodomized the newly made widow."

Omerta, By Mario Puzo

 

[CounterAttack]

I don't have a page 56, so I'll use 57.

"A great tower, some would say."
- The Six Sacred Stones - Matthew Reilly

 

[Buffoon]

"By the time Calm Horizons ordered her to the warship's support against Trumpet, she'd already rigged her ship for battle or collision, and had begun putting distance between herself and Thanatos Minor."

From Book 4 of Stephen Donaldson's Gap series. Convoluted sentence, but I don't think anyone does space-based action better, all things considered.

 

[Lieju]

I chose the book that was in english, and the closest of that language happened to be an USA phrasebook

"In Maryland it's customary to insult someone's highway driving by calling them a 'Pennsylvania driver'"

 

[Khedive Rex]

"Success."

The I Ching - the Wilhelm translation. I think it was originally written by Confucious or something.

The actual line is:

Fellowship with men in the open.
Success.
It furthers one to cross the great waters.
The perseverance of the superior man furthers.

The Judgement line for Hexagram 13, Fellowship with men.

Pretty good reading actually. (For those who don't know, the I Ching is a chinese oracle book. It's like the eastern version of the Tarot.)

 

[hypothetical fact]

From the reply to my request to get my license back:
"You will not be eligible to be granted a Queensland driver license until the period of suspension or disqualification has ended."

 

[PsykoDragon]

No book around me right now. I however hope to see this thread reach 56 pages such that I may peruse the 9th post on that page.

 

[Daveman]

"The measured cell e.m.f. of 1.10V indicates that there is a potential difference of 1.10V between the copper and zinc half cells."

Revise A2 Chemistry written by examiners.

Oh god I hate A levels.

 

[InProgress]

'Which person states the following?' - Exercise in English advanced expert CAE by Pearson Longman.

 

[CPU3]

"Flying machines are easier."

Eoin Colfer- Airman

It's quite a good book, I picked it up because the protagonist had the same first name as me!

 

[SnowCold]

"We all know that," said Lyra "We been playing kids and-

The golden compass

 

[Talendra]

"Press OK"
Brother MFC-5890CN, MFC-6490CW User's guide.

 

[Brisingr]

"Bolivar went out the door with the bucket, looking as if it might be a while before he came back."

Lonsome Dove- Larry McMurtry

 

[runedeadthA]

"The wonderful sword he had given me nestled upon a mound of colorful and extravagant garments tailored for me." Fool's Fate, Robin Hobb

So much for that

 

[Simalacrum]

"Lykourgos, carefully supervised by the revenues of the city and presided over a..."

from the World of Athens, an introduction to classical Athenian culture.

written by the Joint Association of Classical Teachers' Greek Courses.

 

[Chipperz]

"..."zomg"?"

Nextwave : Agents of H.A.T.E. - I Kick Your Face

Meh, that was awful, but it was the closest thing that looked like a book.

 

[ErGo]

"Seepärast leia mõni arvuti, mille kohta kindlalt tead, et see on puhas."

A computer magazine called [digi].
Translate it yourself if you really must, I'm too lazy.

 

[October Country]

"Most of the people convicted for witchcraft were old, single, poor women who did not accept their fate humbly, but yelled and threatened if they felt poorly treated"

My own translation from a history textbook: "Denmark, history, society" by Ebbe Kühle

 

[DinosaurSnack]

"Everything he had done had come to naught."

Diablo:Moon of The Spider by Richard A. Knaak