The channel is conducted a little above the city of Bubastis by Patumos the Arabian city, and runs into the Erythraian Sea: and it is dug first along those parts of the plain of Egypt which lie towards Arabia, just above which run the mountains which extend opposite Memphis, where are the stone-quarries,—along the base of these mountains the channel is conducted from West to East for a great way; and after that it is directed towards a break in the hills and tends from these mountains towards the noon-day and the South Wind to the Arabian gulf.
— from An Account of Egypt by Herodotus

1534—A religious fanatic denounces coffee in Cairo and leads a mob against the coffee houses, many of which are wrecked.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

James II. was peculiarly interested in the navy, being himself a seaman, and having commanded in chief at Lowestoft and Southwold Bay.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

The queen her speech with calm attention hears, Her eyes restrain the silver-streaming tears: She bathes, and robed, the sacred dome ascends; Her pious speed a female train attends: The salted cakes in canisters are laid, And thus the queen invokes Minerva's aid; "Daughter divine of Jove, whose arm can wield The avenging bolt, and shake the dreadful shield If e'er Ulysses to thy fane preferr'd
— from The Odyssey by Homer

Another objection, to all this remedy, is its want of universality; forasmuch as the shaving part of it, upon which so much stress is laid, by an unalterable law of nature excludes one half of the species entirely from its use: all I can say is, that female writers, whether of England, or of France, must e’en go without it—— As for the Spanish ladies——I am in no sort of distress—— 214 C H A P. LXXIV T HE seventy-fourth chapter is come at last; and brings nothing with it but a sad signature of “ How our pleasures slip from under us in this world ! ”
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

The seventy-fourth chapter is come at last; and brings nothing with it but a sad signature of 'How our pleasures slip from under us in this world!'
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

“Oh, Miss Carr,” I cried at last, as I broke the painful silence, “what have I done?”
— from The Story of Antony Grace by George Manville Fenn

In order that she might come into contact as little as possible with Cestus, she began to engage herself in household work elsewhere than where he was.
— from Neæra: A Tale of Ancient Rome by Graham, John W. (John William), active 1886-1887

A beast of an oscillating Chinaman in china, as large as life, grimaced and quivered to one’s lightest steps.
— from Tono-Bungay by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

In my hands was the mission album, a motley collection of faces, as devoid of Nature or any clew to the real characteristics of the owners as the average photograph usually is, but here and there one with a suggestion of interest and, in this special case, of beauty—a delicate, pensive face, with a mass of floating hair, deep, dark eyes, and exquisite curves in cheek and lip and chin—the face of some gently born and nurtured maiden, looking dreamily out upon a world which thus far, at least, could have shown her only its tender, never its cruel or unfriendly, side, and not, as its place would indicate, that of one who had somehow and at some strange time found a home in these slums.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. by Various

48 CHAPTER VI AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE The crowd, which was a good-natured one, gathered around cheering its champion and laughing at Jim's fall.
— from Frontier Boys in Frisco by Wyn Roosevelt

"Thou knowest the youth is a Swiss," he said, "and, in virtue of the tie of country, I claim at least an equal right to do him good."
— from The Headsman; Or, The Abbaye des Vignerons by James Fenimore Cooper

From this fact originates much of the figurative language in common use; such as when knowledge is called light, and ignorance darkness, and care is called a load, and joy is said to make the heart leap.
— from Common Sense Applied to Religion; Or, The Bible and the People by Catharine Esther Beecher

"Of course I can," answered Lilla, "and tea and coffee."
— from Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various