Pheasants are found there twice as big as ours, indeed nearly as big as a peacock, and having tails of 7 to 10 palms in length; and besides them other pheasants in aspect like our own, and birds of many other kinds, and of beautiful variegated plumage.[NOTE 5] The people, who are Idolaters, are fat folks with little noses and black hair, and no beard, except a few hairs on the upper lip.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

The other young man was comparatively rich, and brought home almost nothing of value.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Here Tom came lounging in, and stared at the two with a coolness not particularly savouring of interest in anything but himself, and not much of that at present.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

Which place well considered, proveth no more, but that the Church of Christ hath for foundation one onely Article; namely, that which Peter in the name of all the Apostles professing, gave occasion to our Saviour to speak the words here cited; which that wee may cleerly understand, we are to consider, that our Saviour preached by himself, by John Baptist, and by his Apostles, nothing but this Article of Faith, "that he was the Christ;" all other Articles requiring faith no otherwise, than as founded on that.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

[A; b6] hold a novena.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

His acting had first taught Fanny what pleasure a play might give, and his reading brought all his acting before her again; nay, perhaps with greater enjoyment, for it came unexpectedly, and with no such drawback as she had been used to suffer in seeing him on the stage with Miss Bertram.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

With them goggling eyes and bandaged head, and never going to church of a Sunday.
— from The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

It remained as a goblin footfall, as a hint that all is not for the best in the best of all possible worlds, and that beneath these superstructures of wealth and art there wanders an ill-fed boy, who has recovered his umbrella indeed, but who has left no address behind him, and no name.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

The maid, on her side, knowing nothing of all this, let Minghino know that Giacomino was to sup abroad and bade him abide near the house, so that, whenas he saw a signal which she should make he might come and enter therein.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Johnnie being not yet so strong as before his accident, now went into the house to rest, and Swan proceeded to explain matters.
— from Fated to Be Free: A Novel by Jean Ingelow

And a brave gift I'll gie to thee— All between heir and Newcastle town Sail pay their yeirly rent to thee.
— from Highways and Byways in the Border Illustrated by Andrew Lang

5:12-15 ], answered and said to the multitude, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the day of the sabbath.
— from A Harmony of the Gospels for Students of the Life of Christ Based on the Broadus Harmony in the Revised Version by A. T. Robertson

And he married a beautiful wife, whom he loved better than his own soul, and lived with her deliciously until at last she died, leaving him with a broken heart and nothing to console him except her recollection, as it were incarnate in a daughter who resembled her exactly in everything but years.
— from A Mine of Faults by F. W. (Francis William) Bain

Many of her sympathizing neighbors, attracted by her alarm note, came and had a peep at the intruder and then flew away, but the male bird did not appear upon the scene.
— from Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, and Other Papers by John Burroughs

[Pg 82] But bad food and bad housing are not the only enemies of the workman's health.
— from Consumers and Wage-Earners: The Ethics of Buying Cheap by J. Elliot (John Elliot) Ross

"I had just fixed it with your uncle so's he'd take Abner from the poor-farm an' board him, an' now there's all the more reason why he should do it.
— from Mr. Stubbs's Brother A Sequel to 'Toby Tyler' by James Otis

A multitude of them run out from her brisk and busy harbor and not all of them find their way to the sea.
— from The Personality of American Cities by Edward Hungerford

He begged forgiveness on the part of God, And fair construction of his act from men, Whose suffrage he entreated for his soul, Suggesting that we should forthwith repeat A Pater and an Ave , with the hymn Salve Regina Cœli , for his sake. Which said, he turned to the confessor, crossed And reconciled himself, with decency, Oft glancing at Saint Mary's opposite, Where they possess, and showed in shrine to-day, The blessed Umbilicus of our Lord, (A relic 't is believed no other church In Rome can boast of)—then rose up, as brisk Knelt down again, bent head, adapted neck,
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

He was a little premature; but as it would all be his at no distant time there was nothing dishonest about it.
— from The Outcaste by F. E. (Fanny Emily) Penny