Their food when in health consists of dates and salt-fish (tunny, to wit) and onions, and this kind of diet they maintain in order to preserve their health.[NOTE 2]
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

I now had in my possession all the papers that I wanted—the district registrar's own copy of the certificate of death, and Sir Percival's dated letter to the Count, being safe in my pocket-book.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

The story was told and retold amid cries of delight and shouts of laughter.
— from The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

The barangays were grouped together in tiny federations including about as much territory as the present towns, whose affairs were conducted by the chiefs or datos, although sometimes they seem to have all been in obedience to a single chief, known in some places as the “hari,” at other times by the Hindu word “raja,” or the Mohammedan term “sultan.”
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

Spitting seems an almost universal sign of contempt or disgust; and spitting obviously represents the rejection of anything offensive from the mouth.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

From the dry fields thick clouds of dust arise, Shade the black host, and intercept the skies.
— from The Iliad by Homer

His wife, not sure that he was come home, looked into his dressing-room and saw him with his coat and cravat off, leaning one arm on a chest of drawers and staring absently at the ground.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

—The institution of marriage stubbornly upholds the belief that love, although a passion, is nevertheless capable of duration as such, yea, that lasting, lifelong love may be taken as a general rule.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

But, on the other hand, the conclusions of Darwin and Sharpe were met with the strongest opposition by Sir Roderick Murchison and Dr. A. Geikie, who in 1861 read a paper before the Geological Society "On the Coincidence between Stratification and Foliation in the Crystalline Rocks of the Scottish Highlands," in which they insisted that their observations in Scotland tended to entirely disprove the conclusions of Darwin that foliation in rocks is a secondary structure, and entirely independent of the original stratification of the rock-masses.
— from Coral Reefs; Volcanic Islands; South American Geology — Complete by Charles Darwin

Providence has doubtless created these animals to answer some beneficial purpose; and Mr. Clark's judicious conjectures are an index which points to the very kind of good our cattle may derive from them, as acting the part of perpetual stimuli or blisters: yet when they exceed certain limits, as is often the case with similar animals employed for purposes equally beneficial, they become certainly the causes of disease, and sometimes of death.
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 1 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

5 0 0 To making him drunk (in this item present strength and cost of drink and said soldier's capacity must be allowed for) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
— from Bull-dog Drummond: The Adventures of a Demobilised Officer Who Found Peace Dull by H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile

On their way home they borrowed a copy of Debrett and studied it all evening.
— from Penny Plain by O. Douglas

J think how you and I, my reader, may perhaps have stood in the chamber of death, and seen in the horizon the summer sun in glory going down.
— from The Recreations of a Country Parson by Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd

The wind, hot and scorching, like a blast from a furnace, rushed over the country with the violence of a hurricane, bringing with it perfect clouds of dust and sand, so that it was totally impossible to face it, except at the risk of being actually blinded or stifled.
— from Campaign of the Indus In a Series of Letters from an Officer of the Bombay Division by T. W. E. Holdsworth

Causes of disagreement also shook the friendship between Burgundy and England.
— from Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre — Complete by Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France

In the case of Devon and Somerset the absence of the counter-attraction of large provincial cities drives almost the whole of its migratory folk to London, whereas in Yorkshire and Lancashire and the chief Midland manufacturing counties the attraction of their own industrial centres acts more powerfully in their immediate neighbourhood than the magic of London itself.
— from Problems of Poverty: An Inquiry into the Industrial Condition of the Poor by J. A. (John Atkinson) Hobson

Patients, nurses, interns, orderlies; a couple of doctors, a scholar presiding over a sheaf of files.
— from Highways in Hiding by George O. (George Oliver) Smith