There was in those days a fixed price for the foreigner wherever he went, arbitrarily determined without reference to the native tariff.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

Pant Shon [41] Shenkin, it must be here remarked, was a famous place for the Carmarthenshire fairies.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

It is said to have been a summer residence of the later Mongol Emperors, and fine parks full of grand trees remain on the western side.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

I know not with what fine and costly material the Heidelburgh Tun was coated within, but in superlative richness that coating could not possibly have compared with the silken pearl-coloured membrane, like the lining of a fine pelisse, forming the inner surface of the Sperm Whale’s case.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Though all these regions collectively bear the term Marusthali, or ‘region of death’ (the emphatic and figurative phrase for the desert), the restrictive definition applies to a part only, that under the dominion of the Rathor race [19].
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

And when they looked round they found that they had been sleeping quite close to a precipice, and would certainly have fallen into it in the darkness if they had gone only a few paces further.
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

We know such system formation not only from the dream, but also from phobias, from compulsive thinking and from the types of delusions.
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

This view certainly seems at first probable, for species within the same country could hardly have kept distinct had they been capable of crossing freely.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

For one glorious moment of OSS, it seemed that the President had signed over all foreign propaganda functions conducted outside the United States to OSS, cutting the OWI out of everything except its New York and San Francisco transmitters; the OWI was stricken with gloom and collective indigestion.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

Other authors helped to popularise and extend Slang down to our own time, when it has taken a somewhat different turn, dropping many of the Cant and old vulgar words, and assuming a certain quaint and fashionable phraseology—Frenchy, familiar, utilitarian, and jovial.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

A few people from the hospital had rejoined the crowd and familiar faces were among them.
— from Captain Lucy in France by Aline Havard

Contrary to popular tradition, we believe that of popular narcotics opium is on the whole, if the most seductive, the least injurious; chloral, which at first passed for being almost harmless, is probably the most noxious of all, having both chemical and vital effects which approach if they do not amount to blood-poisoning.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, April 1885 by Various

Altair paid a fantastic price for the return of the collection, and Skrrgck also demanded, and got, a sizable ransom for the Prince, after threatening to sell him to Boötes, from whence, of course, he would never return.
— from License to Steal by Louis Newman

But these queer people (they are the most amusing and confusing and contradictory of all God's creatures, these English, whose possibilities are infinite and whose actualities, in many ways, are pitiful)—these queer people are fiercely pursuing food-economy by discussing in the newspapers whether a hen consumes more food than she produces, and [pg II-262] whether what dogs eat contains enough human food to justify the shooting of every one in the Kingdom.
— from The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II by Burton Jesse Hendrick

All four agreed that the illness was a sham, and all four paid for their truthfulness with their heads.
— from Indo-China and Its Primitive People by Henry Baudesson

The hall became animated; a fighting passion flared up;
— from Mother by Maksim Gorky

That thenceforth the government desisted not on account of accidents of the situation for the moment, but once for all, from pushing forward the frontier of the empire, and amidst all change of persons adhered to this course, we are taught by the whole later history of the island, and taught especially by the laborious and costly wall–structures to be mentioned immediately.
— from The Provinces of the Roman Empire, from Caesar to Diocletian. v. 1 by Theodor Mommsen

O'Rourke, too, we parted from as friends part from one another, he setting out for Savannah where he purposed to instal himself as agent of Mr. Oglethorpe and bidding us an affectionate farewell ere doing so.
— from The Land of Bondage: A Romance by John Bloundelle-Burton

The Pope’s desire to terminate the long dispute about Sarzana, which had distracted the Lunigiana for years, and threatened to assume dimensions greater than the worth of the cause, was very honourable to him, especially as it did not arise from partiality for his Genoese home.
— from Lorenzo de' Medici, the Magnificent (vol. 2 of 2) by Alfred von Reumont

My object is to inflict a fearful punishment for a revolting, cowardly, barbarous deed, and to strike terror into these rebels....
— from The History of the Indian Revolt and of the Expeditions to Persia, China and Japan, 1856-7-8 by George Dodd