[Illustration] Until you raised dead monarchs from the mould And built again the domes of Xanadu, I lay in evil case, and never knew The glamour of that ancient story told By good Ser Marco in his prison-hold.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

The preparation of this enlarged edition, with much other miscellaneous work (see subjoined bibliography), and the superintendence of the building of the church already named, kept him fully occupied for the next three years.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Then King Carados and his host rode on a soft pace, till that they came as nigh King Bors as bow-draught; then either battle let their horse run as fast as they might.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

As respects the tracing of effect to cause, that is often attended with the insuperable difficulty that the real causes are not known.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

All alike had come to Nebraska with little capital and no knowledge of the soil they must subdue.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

Shaking with anger and cold, and not knowing what to do, Yergunov fired his revolver at the dogs, and did not hit one of them; then he rushed back to the house.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Alas, said King Arthur, that was great dishonour to Sir Palomides, inasmuch as Sir Tristram was sore wounded, and now may we all, kings, and knights, and men of worship, say that Sir Tristram may be called a noble knight, and one of the best knights that ever I saw the days of my life.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

But when he observed that they were all turned from it, and directed him no other way, confounded, and not knowing what to do, he [Pg 12] began to drive his cattle out of that unlucky place.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

“The Abbé Busoni!” exclaimed Caderousse; and, not knowing how this strange apparition could have entered when he had bolted the doors, he let fall his bunch of keys, and remained motionless and stupefied.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

In similar instances the evidence of Marcion, as to matters of fact to which he could attach no kind of importance, is well worth recording 272 : but where on the contrary the dogmas of his own miserable system are touched, or no codices or other witnesses countenance his changes (as is perpetually the case in his edition of St. Luke, the only Gospel—and that maimed or interpolated from the others—he seems to have acknowledged at all), his blasphemous extravagance may very well be forgotten.
— from A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener

His noble labours in the Gospel, and the many excellences of his character are not known as they deserve to be.
— from Three Apostles of Quakerism: Popular Sketches of Fox, Penn and Barclay by Benjamin Rhodes

The various stages of his unhappy life, the outward influences under which he came and many other accompanying circumstances, are now known from various sources.
— from Luther, vol. 3 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

If the culprit was a Christian, he was to be placed under the ban of the church, and neither king nor queen was to be exempt; if a Jew, then the whole of his fortune, personal and real, was to be confiscated by the bishop of the diocese, and applied to the purposes of the church.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 4 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz

In the fourteenth century a new king, nominally Burmese, but connected with the Shans,—came into full power, and founded Ava.
— from Among the Burmans: A Record of Fifteen Years of Work and its Fruitage by Henry Park Cochrane

Turkish Cypriot area: NA kWh Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (1999) Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (1999) Agriculture - products: potatoes, citrus, vegetables, barley, grapes, olives, vegetables Exports: Greek Cypriot area: $1 billion (f.o.b., 1999 est.);
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Of the two, sales costs are the more important; if sales costs are not kept down, there will be nothing left from which to pay administrative costs.
— from Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy, Business Administration, v. 01 (of 10) by American School of Correspondence