From these names compounded, Dabi and Churaila, we may have the Dabisalima of Mahmud.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Writers there are who say the first adventure he met with was that of Puerto Lapice; others say it was that of the windmills; but what I have ascertained on this point, and what I have found written in the annals of La Mancha, is that he was on the road all day, and towards nightfall his hack and he found themselves dead tired and hungry, when, looking all around to see if he could discover any castle or shepherd's shanty where he might refresh himself and relieve his sore wants, he perceived not far out of his road an inn, which was as welcome as a star guiding him to the portals, if not the palaces, of his redemption; and quickening his pace he reached it just as night was setting in.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

They huddled together, and waited; and he climbed down, and came in.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

Come down, and come into the house with me."
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

If accidentally, or purposely (by turning the cock C to the position shown in Fig. 89), the train-pipe pressure is reduced, the triple-valve at once shifts, putting B in connection with the brake cylinder D , and cutting off the connection between D and the air, and the brakes go on.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

The fleet left England in October, 1651, carrying six hundred men, but on the way Captain Dennis and Captain Stegge were lost in a storm and the command devolved on Captain Edmund Curtis.
— from England in America, 1580-1652 by Lyon Gardiner Tyler

His first ball struck within the innermost circle, and about half-way from that to the bull’s eye; and the second he planted directly in the central dot, and covered it all over.
— from The Unseen Hand; or, James Renfew and His Boy Helpers by Elijah Kellogg

It is possible, we learned, to reach the easternmost series of caverns by this route, which also takes one into the square cavity designated as "Cust's Cave" on M. Martel's chart.
— from The Netherworld of Mendip Explorations in the great caverns of Somerset, Yorkshire, Derbyshire, and elsewhere by Ernest A. (Ernest Albert) Baker

respondance du Baron de Staël," Jan.19, 1792.—Gouverneur Morris (II.162, Feb. 4, 1792) writes to Washington that M. de Warville, on the diplomatic committee, proposed to cede Dunkirk and Calais to England, as a pledge of fidelity by France, in any engagement which she might enter into.
— from The French Revolution - Volume 2 by Hippolyte Taine

I could distinguish a crowd of Chinese in the distance—men, women and swarms of children—pressing forward in awed wonder.
— from My Escape from Donington Hall, Preceded by an Account of the Siege of Kiao-Chow in 1915 by Gunther Plüschow

At a meeting held at the tavern of Captain Doran a committee was appointed to wait on the merchants who had been appointed commissioners for the sale of the East India Company’s tea and ask their intentions.
— from Old Taverns of New York by W. Harrison (William Harrison) Bayles

Such was the guest whose arrival Caroline dreaded and certainly not without reason.
— from Popular Tales by Madame (Elisabeth Charlotte Pauline) Guizot

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— from The English Housekeeper: Or, Manual of Domestic Management Containing advice on the conduct of household affairs and practical instructions concerning the store-room, the pantry, the larder, the kitchen, the cellar, the dairy; the whole being intended for the use of young ladies who undertake the superintendence of their own housekeeping by Anne Cobbett