These hawks are much esteemed by the chiefs of Badakhshan, Bokhara, etc.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

The Duke of Wellington also admitted that the French columns at Waterloo, particularly those of their right wing, were not small columns of battalions, but enormous masses, much more unwieldy and much deeper.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

Kinchin coes; orphan beggar boys, educated in thieving.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

—Combat and capture of Bassano by Eugène.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

By flight alone we cannot overcome, but by endurance and true humility we are made stronger than all our enemies.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

xi. 186 that at this point of Ulysses' voyage Telemachus could only be between eleven and twelve years old.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

No confectioner of Burra Bazar ever made its like.
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

“Well, I sometimes think we are too quiet; but we run a chance of being busy enough now: for a little while at least,” said Mrs. Fairfax, still holding the note before her spectacles.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

I have already pointed out that the titles of the principal works on philosophy indicate that the whole world wisdom turns around the question: How can our brain be enlightened, how can it arrive at truth?
— from The Positive Outcome of Philosophy The Nature of Human Brain Work. Letters on Logic. by Joseph Dietzgen

Her tightly-braided hair curves over both brown ears like a pair of crooked little horns which glisten in the summer sun.
— from American Indian Stories by Zitkala-Sa

During this, the nation had time to consider the constitutional question, and when the renewal was proposed, they condemned it, not by their representatives in Congress only, but by express instructions from different organs of their will.
— from Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Thomas Jefferson

But we had one child, one beautiful, bonnie English girl; nothing foreign about her, bless her!
— from The Children's Pilgrimage by L. T. Meade

<1.1> Mr. B. R. was a somewhat diligent collector of books, both English and foreign.
— from Lucasta by Richard Lovelace

It was not many days after that, before Dabney received a couple of boxes by express.
— from Dab Kinzer: A Story of a Growing Boy by William O. Stoddard

The inhabitants fancied us by turns great princes or great criminals, or both, being escorted out of the country.
— from Stray Pearls: Memoirs of Margaret De Ribaumont, Viscountess of Bellaise by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Oswald’s familiarity with the law regarding renunciation of citizenship, observed by both Embassy officials, C6-167 could also be construed as a sign of coaching by Soviet authorities.
— from Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by United States. Warren Commission