In this plain there are a number of villages and towns which have lofty walls of mud, made as a defence against the banditti,[NOTE 3] who are very numerous, and are called CARAONAS.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

the mockerson snake or coperhead, a number of vipers a variety of lizzards, the toad bullfrog &c common to the U States are not to be found in this country.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

His name, pronounced by a number of voices among which He distinguished the Duke's, pealed along the Vaults, and convinced him that He was the object of their search.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

To the uncertainty and annoyance of a life which was continually being threatened, was added a number of vexatious and personal insults, even in ordinary times, and when they enjoyed a kind of normal tolerance.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

A number of verbs are passive in form but active in meaning; as, hortor , I encourage ; vereor , I fear .
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

That in this, there is strength and nerves, or vigour and fortitude: whereof anger and indignation is altogether void.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

There is, as I remember, a passage in Xenophon where he tells us that we ought so much the more seldom to call upon God, by how much it is hard to compose our souls to such a degree of calmness, patience, and devotion as it ought to be in at such a time; otherwise our prayers are not only vain and fruitless, but vicious: “forgive us,” we say, “our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us”; what do we mean by this petition but that we present to God a soul free from all rancour and revenge?
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

A feature which is universally recognised as reprehensible and discreditable, is a tendency to retain a number of valuables and be slow in passing them on.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

There was a smell of wet clothing, a tossing out of wet, draggled hair, a noise of voices and feet.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

A number of voices (angrily).
— from An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen

His standard was likewise followed by a number of volunteers, and the flower of the Spanish nobility, of whom the greater part had fought under Charles V. in Germany, Italy, and before Tunis.
— from History of the Revolt of the Netherlands — Volume 04 by Friedrich Schiller

Well, the evil tempers of the heart, such as pride, vanity, envy, jealousy, &c., are a nest of vipers; and, when indulged, they will spit out their venom through the countenance.
— from How to Be a Man A Book for Boys, Containing Useful Hints on the Formation of Character by Harvey Newcomb

from a number of voices around me.
— from Arthur O'Leary: His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands by Charles James Lever

A discriminating Boer, having laid a Nestfull of valuable and informing Eggs, fled across the Horizon under pressure of necessity, leaving his Nest in a secluded Spot, where it was discovered by a Disinterested Observer who reported the same to an Intelligence Officer.
— from War's Brighter Side The Story of The Friend Newspaper Edited by the Correspondents with Lord Roberts's Forces, March-April, 1900 by Julian Ralph

Katt, another patriot, assembled a number of veterans at Stendal and advanced as far as Magdeburg, but was compelled to flee to the Brunswickers in Bohemia.
— from Germany from the Earliest Period, Volume 4 by Wolfgang Menzel

Mr. and Mrs. Blunt are natives of Virginia and have become a very definite asset to the El Camino Real area of Many, La. Sidney Williams Bright Sidney Williams Bright, Co-owner of Bright and Son Laundry and Cleaners at 224 Amulet St. in Natchitoches, La., wed Beatrice Williams of Bronson, Tex.
— from No Man's Land: A History of El Camino Real by Louis Raphael Nardini

These singular organisms (fig. 79) are not only very abundant in some of the Devonian limestones—both in the Old World and the New—but they often attain very large dimensions.
— from The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science by Henry Alleyne Nicholson

There was a noise of voices and laughter in the hall.
— from Arsene Lupin by Maurice Leblanc

On the 27th of June, 1916, Byrd Coyle was united in marriage to Miss [825] Lenora Stewart, a native of Virginia and a daughter of Moore Stewart.
— from Lyman's History of old Walla Walla County, Vol. 2 Embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties by William Denison Lyman

One of these named Simamora is situated far inland and contains a number of villages, and among others those named Batong, Ria, Allas, Batadera, Kapkap (where the district producing benzoin commences), Batahol, Kotta-tinggi (the place of the king's residence), with two places lying on the eastern coast called Suitara-male and Jambu-ayer.
— from The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants by William Marsden