Protestant condamné aux Galères , etc., Réimprimés, Paris, 1865, p. 447.)
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

The next day we were "turned-to" early, and began taking off the hatches, overhauling the cargo, and getting everything ready for inspection.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

She fetched crockery—new, and plenty of it; new wooden goblets and other table furniture; and beer, fish, chicken, a goose, eggs, roast beef, roast mutton, a ham, a small roast pig, and a wealth of genuine white wheaten bread.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

Sumner in his Folkways indicates how internal sympathetic contacts and group egotism result in double standards of behavior: good-will and co-operation within the members of the in-group, hostility and suspicion toward the out-group and its members.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

These are the words which he uttered; here they are literally, as they were written down, immediately after the trial by one of the witnesses to this scene, and as they now ring in the ears of those who heard them nearly forty years ago:— “I thank you, Mr. District-Attorney, but I am not mad; you shall see; you were on the point of committing a great error; release this man!
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

I cannot chase the Cat, But call and gather every Rat That's living near.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

Colonel McRae, who succeeded to the command after General Early retired, states in his report that he sent to General Hill for reënforcements in order to advance, and in reply received an order to retire: that his men were holding the enemy to his shelter in such way that they were not at all suffering, but, when he commenced retiring, the enemy rose and fired upon his men, doing the greatest damage that was done.
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 2 by Jefferson Davis

This would bring it into connexion with the Phoenician @ (Shin), which, turned through a right angle, is possibly the Greek S, though some forms of Zade on old Hebrew coins and gems (@) equally resemble the Greek letter.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

He then conquered the Ganges country (321 B.C. ), waged a successful war (303 B.C. ) against Seleucus (Seleucus I) when the latter attempted to recover {v1-431} the Punjab, and consolidated a great empire reaching across all the plain of northern India from the western to the eastern sea.
— from The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

"I have just received your very kind letter, and hope you have met with a second copy cor Pg 166 rected and addressed to Holland House, with some omissions and this new couplet, "As glared each rising flash [52] , and ghastly shone
— from Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore

And this was no small praise from that sublime yet mysterious female who had seen the ages come and go, empires rise and fall, novelist succeed novelist, and who, for eons and cycles the cynosure and centre of admiration and men's idolatrous worship, had yet—wonderful for a woman—through it all kept her head, which now alone remained to survey calmly the present.
— from Condensed Novels: New Burlesques by Bret Harte

luego que don tristan de arellano llego en tiguex mediado el mes de jullio del año de quarenta y dos hiço recoger bastimentos para el inbierno benidero y enbio a el capitan francisco de barrio nuebo con alguna gẽte el rio arriba debajo del norte en que bio dos prouinçias que la una se decia hemes de siete pueblos y la
— from The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542. Excerpted from the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-1893, Part 1. by George Parker Winship

Ages come and go, empires rise and fall, philosophies flourish and fail, and man seeks him out many inventions, but they stand silent under the bright Egyptian night, as fascinating as they are baffling.
— from The Builders: A Story and Study of Masonry by Joseph Fort Newton

The marriage took place, and he lived for some time in good health, then suddenly fell into one of his fits, and his wife and the doctors, believing him dead, had him placed in a coffin, and got everything ready for the funeral.
— from Premature Burial and How It May Be Prevented by William Tebb