It is further recorded in the Corean history, that in the 8th month of 1292, sorcerers and Shaman women from Corea were sent at the request of the Khan to cure him of a disease of the feet and hands.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

To the physician Antonius Musa 196 , who had cured him of a dangerous illness, they erected a statue near that of Aesculapius, by a general subscription.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

When he saw Cosette, when he had taken possession of her, carried her off, and delivered her, he felt his heart moved within him.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

She was ill at the time he carried her off, and died on board his ship.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

For this reason some who wish to clear him of this, the heaviest of all the charges against him, say that it was not he who carried off Helen, but that Idas and Lynkeus carried her off and deposited her in his keeping.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

Runt all the while lay tipsy in the carriage, having only a dreamy half-consciousness of all that was going on.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

“Tell me what you would like for to-morrow,” said he, “for I can only come here once a day at sunrise.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The fertile and flat foreshores which they inhabit are studded with small, compact hamlets of a dozen or so houses, hidden in the midst of one continuous plantation of fruit trees, palms, bananas and yams.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Occasionally he caught the twinkle of a light—always far away, apparently—almost in another world; if he heard the tinkle of a sheep’s bell, it was vague, distant, indistinct; the muffled lowing of the herds floated to him on the night wind in vanishing cadences, a mournful sound; now and then came the complaining howl of a dog over viewless expanses of field and forest; all sounds were remote; they made the little King feel that all life and activity were far removed from him, and that he stood solitary, companionless, in the centre of a measureless solitude.
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

About this time the council had ordered a day of public thanksgiving.
— from Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by Mary White Rowlandson

Had the dragoons at Meerut been ordered down the road to Delhi (for the general might easily have guessed that the rebels would take that direction), the 60th Rifles and the Artillery were strong enough to have swept all the budmashes in Meerut out of existence; and the dragoons would certainly have overtaken and destroyed the two foot regiments, and might have come up with the 3rd Native Cavalry.
— from The Disputed V.C.: A Tale of the Indian Mutiny by Frederick P. Gibbon

On examining my front after taking the first ridge, I found that one of my troops, Captain Andrews, was missing, and learned that Colonel Royal had cut him off and directed that he report to him, as he was moving to the left with Captain Henry's squadron.
— from My Story by Anson Mills

According to Nennius, after vanquishing the Saxons in many battles, he crossed the sea, and carried his victorious arms into Scotland, Ireland, and Gaul, in which latter country he obtained a decisive victory over a Roman army.
— from Legendary Yorkshire by Frederick Ross

In after years, he changed his opinion, and declared that what he had formerly deemed the secondary purpose, was in reality the sole one
— from Byways in British Archaeology by Walter Johnson

Hitherto I had scarcely noticed him, but now his face, possibly darkened by a change in the lights, seemed to me to have altered its character; it had certainly grown ghastly; violet tones were spreading over it; you might have thought it the cadaverous head of a dying man.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

"If it would cure him of any disease, or the like, I might be coaxed to wear blinders so as not to see the pretty girls at all," and Luke tried to laugh it off again.
— from The Corner House Girls Growing Up What Happened First, What Came Next. And How It Ended by Grace Brooks Hill

There, through an eye-shaped dead-light in the back of the carriage he obtained a dim view of its occupant.
— from The Incendiary: A Story of Mystery by William Augustine Leahy

With furious gestures and banging of his fists on the green-covered table, he called his opponent a deceiver of the people, a man without judgment or conscience, an enemy of the laborer, a sower of discord who would never bring anything to pass save disorder and confusion.
— from The Quest The authorized translation from the Dutch of De kleine Johannes by Frederik van Eeden

It might even now be made most charmingly effective, if the singers of the choir had only a director of more extensive knowledge.
— from Louis Spohr's Autobiography Translated from the German by Louis Spohr