On this brother, the great-uncle of Kúblái, and the commander of the latter's forces against Arikbuga in the beginning of the reign, both Chinghiz and Kúblái had bestowed large territories in Eastern Tartary towards the frontier of Corea, and north of Liaotong towards the Manchu country.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

But those men who had the heart to save their lives by crime and impiety, and to prosecute their parents and their children by so abominable a decree, did not deserve life; for they would be doing a work of cruelty and not of love.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

It is supposed that all inductive inference is based upon collecting and comparing a number of like cases.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

He began by removing from each trunk an inch–thick strip of bark that covered a network of long, hopelessly tangled fibers that were puttied with a sort of gummy flour.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

And at last a good hour or more after the shop had been closed, came a noise of locking doors.
— from The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Poems, songs, chants and norito or liturgies were kept alive in the human memory, and there was a system of worship, the name of which was given long after the introduction of Buddhism.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

The first objection is, that a Flatlander, seeing a Line, sees something that must be THICK to the eye as well as LONG to the eye (otherwise it would not be visible, if it had not some thickness); and consequently he ought (it is argued) to acknowledge that his countrymen are not only long and broad, but also (though doubtless in a very slight degree) THICK or HIGH.
— from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Illustrated) by Edwin Abbott Abbott

But as Thorer was old and heavy, Svein took the command, and name of leader of the troop.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Whether the means at hand consist of a penny whistle and comb, a number of lusty voices, or the now almost obsolete Made-in-Germany mouth-organ, it matters not.
— from Eighteen Months in the War Zone The Record of a Woman's Work on the Western Front by Kate John Finze

She had come across no one like him before.
— from The Quiver, Annual Volume 10/1899 by Various

The reader may naturally suppose that there is risk in carrying a number of loaded cartridges about the person; but in this he is entirely mistaken.
— from Florida and the Game Water-Birds of the Atlantic Coast and the Lakes of the United States With a full account of the sporting along our sea-shores and inland waters, and remarks on breech-loaders and hammerless guns by Robert Barnwell Roosevelt

It had camps for soldiers who were convalescent, and not only looked after the physical needs of the boys in blue, but in connection with the Young Men's Christian Association measures were taken looking to their souls' needs, also, and religious reading matter was given them, prayers and addresses were had at the recruiting offices, and a hymn book was compiled, which seemed to be exactly what a soldier needed.
— from The Blue and the Gray; Or, The Civil War as Seen by a Boy A Story of Patriotism and Adventure in Our War for the Union by Annie Randall White

The question with which we have next to deal is, after collecting a number of living mollusks, how, in the quickest and most painless manner possible, to kill the animals in order to obtain possession of their shells.
— from Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils by B. B. (Bernard Bolingbroke) Woodward

The work of the Tokkaido sculptor copies the conventional artistic notion of light grace and ghostliness.
— from Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: First Series by Lafcadio Hearn

I said no more, for we had now begun to cross a neck of land that lay between us and Sandag; and I withheld my last appeal to the man’s better reason till we should stand upon the spot associated with his crime.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 21 by Robert Louis Stevenson

The subject here treated of is love truly conjugial, and not ordinary love, which also is called conjugial, and which with some is merely the limited love of the sex.
— from The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love To Which is Added The Pleasures of Insanity Pertaining To Scortatory Love by Emanuel Swedenborg

At the end of the fourth year, if the student has gone over the ground, a diploma is given, bearing the seal of the C. L. S. C. A number of ladies and gentlemen of this city have handed in their names.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, December 1883 by Chautauqua Institution

I was prevailed with by these hints to follow the advice proposed; and accordingly, besides tea and a large hamper of wine, with several hams and tongues, I caused a number of live chickens and sheep to be conveyed aboard; in truth, treble the quantity of provisions which would have supported the persons I took with me, had the voyage continued three weeks, as it was supposed, with a bare possibility, it might.
— from The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon by Henry Fielding