Now every year an hundred of the most beautiful maidens of this tribe are sent to the Great Kaan, who commits them to the charge of certain elderly ladies dwelling in his palace.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Il détestait les longues consultations et les détails inutiles et filandreux.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

The Revelation of Love is all centred in the Passion, and looking on the Passion in time the soul sees, in vision, the Lamb that was slain from the foundation of the world, the mind conceives how before all time the Divine Love took to itself in the Wisdom of God the mode of Manhood, and in time created Man in the [Pg lxxiii] same, and how thus God could be and do all that man could be and do, could exercise Love Divine in human Faith and Courage: could "take our flesh" and live on the earth as "the Man, Christ-Jesus," "in all points tempted like as we are," finding His daily Bread in the will of the Father, drinking with joy of the Wine of life in the evening cup of Death.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

As usual, the boss had covered every little detail in his instructions, and had remembered that the sight of a man standing at a switch in a lonesome place like this might give an engineer a fit of "nerves" and make him shut off steam.
— from The Wreckers by Francis Lynde

"Schwalbe," he exclaimed at length, "has the yacht been carefully examined?" "Lieutenant Dort is still on board, sir.
— from The Sea-girt Fortress: A Story of Heligoland by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

Others incline to the theory that the creative elements lie dormant in the soil, needing only the sun to start them to life.
— from The Blazed Trail by Stewart Edward White

We have evidence of this capacity even low down in the animal scale: thus Crustaceans are provided with auditory hairs of different lengths, which have been seen to vibrate when the proper musical notes are struck.
— from The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin

When he was down in a cistern the children enjoyed looking down into the cistern to see him work.
— from Rootabaga Stories by Carl Sandburg