[With regard to the gout of Kúblái Khan, Palladius (p. 48) writes: "In the Corean history allusion is made twice to the Khan's suffering from this disease.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Yet was the king very angry with him and called him an ill man, who had formerly run away from his Egyptian slavery, and came now back with deceitful tricks, and wonders, and magical arts, to astonish him.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

They have, however, packed him off to me in charge of some friends who happened to be coming home, and I must ask you to take him when he arrives, for I don't know what to do with him.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

When they saw the count eat, they came one and all about him and began to caress him, as if, moved by some occult virtue, they divined him to be their grandfather.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Her cousin being, as it appears, in good work, and well to do, thanked me in a very manly sort of manner for this (conducting himself altogether, I must say, in a way that gives me a high opinion of him), and went and took as comfortable a little house as you or I could wish to clap eyes on.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

The colonel has again insulted me, by insisting that I should not play a spade, and he shall give me satisfaction for it."
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

“The count,” he added, “is madly in love with her, and allows her fifty doubloons a day.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

In the midst of his dilemma, "Boots," who is always the most intelligent man about an inn, popped in his curly head, and informed Mr. Jorrocks that the Unity hoy, a most commodious vessel, neat, trim, and water-tight, manned by his own maternal uncle, was going to cut away to London at three o'clock, and would land him before he could say "Jack Robinson.
— from Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities by Robert Smith Surtees

I have come here and I mean to stay.
— from The Honorable Miss: A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town by L. T. Meade

Many certainly have; and if many, [Pg 33] perhaps all.
— from Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott

Gold foil is the best for our purposes; coin, however, answers, in most cases, for the daguerreotype operator, as the alloy, being so slight is not noticed in the gilding process.
— from American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype by S. D. (Samuel Dwight) Humphrey

The wonderful change in the "Vicare du" was the subject of remark at many a cottage hearth, and in many a roadside conversation.
— from By Berwen Banks by Allen Raine

Tenez , compère ,” he added, in most villanous French, “ voilà mon affaire ; voilà ce que je viens vous dire .”
— from The Bible in Spain, Vol. 2 [of 2] Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula by George Borrow

"Yes, aunt, I will indeed; papa told me to be very good until he came home, and I mean to be," he said, drawing himself up in a determined manner.
— from Naughty Miss Bunny A Story for Little Children by Clara Mulholland

They met as a gamekeeper and poacher might meet, if persons of these classes had an indifferent meeting-ground in polite society, like their masters.
— from The Ladies Lindores, Vol. 2 (of 3) by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant