[1] Cathay and The Way Thither, being a Collection of Minor Medieval Notices of China .
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

And that these causes of mischief may not wander through too wide a space, she places her sister before her eyes, and the fortunate marriage of that sister, and the God under his beauteous appearance, and aggravates each particular.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

For an hour or two I was even staggered in my resolution of marrying him, and though this was too idle and nonsensical an idea to remain long on my mind, I do not feel very eager for the conclusion of my marriage, nor look forward with much impatience to the time when Reginald, according to our agreement, is to be in town.
— from Lady Susan by Jane Austen

Thompson, foreseeing that the whole slavery of attending the sick and wounded, as well as the cruelty of Mackshane, must now fall upon his shoulders, grew desperate at the prospect, and, though I never heard him swear before, imprecated dreadful curses on the heads of his oppressors, declaring that he would rather quit life altogether than be much longer under the power of such barbarians.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

If you will be so good as to favour me with your attention for a couple of minutes, miss, not more, I'll endeavour to explain myself as clearly as I can."
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Fear and sorrow are the true characters and inseparable companions of most melancholy, not all, as Her. de Saxonia, Tract.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

, King Edward VI., Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth,) built twenty houses for poor women to dwell rent-free: and near hereunto was a chapel of Mary Magdalen, now wholly ruinated.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

As the foreman of a spinning mill, when he has set the hands to work, goes round and notices here a spindle that has stopped or there one that creaks or makes more noise than it should, and hastens to check the machine or set it in proper motion, so Anna Pávlovna moved about her drawing room, approaching now a silent, now a too-noisy group, and by a word or slight rearrangement kept the conversational machine in steady, proper, and regular motion.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

"Air-raid?" suggested one of them—for at that time British bombers from Mudros were visiting Constantinople on most moonlit nights.
— from Eastern Nights - and Flights: A Record of Oriental Adventure. by Alan Bott

Does it not come out much more naturally and truly in the old simple Hebraic forms?
— from The Gospel of St. John: A Series of Discourses. New Edition by Frederick Denison Maurice

Instead of the red chair of marriage, my new daughter-in-law was brought from the house of her uncle in that most modern thing, a motor-car.
— from My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard by Elizabeth Cooper

7. A case of measles must not be removed from one house to another, or even to a different apartment in the same house, without the permission of the Department.
— from The Eugenic Marriage, Volume 4 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies by W. Grant (William Grant) Hague

If the interval of reason of the madman lasts long enough, he will say to them: "Miserable mortals, who neither know the cause of my malady, nor how to cure it!
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 07 by Voltaire

One thing I regard as certain, and venture to affirm; that I will endeavour, by every exertion in my power, that this hope which you have conceived of me may not be frustrated.
— from The History of Rome, Books 37 to the End with the Epitomes and Fragments of the Lost Books by Livy

[64] The constitutions of Massachusetts, Maryland, New Hampshire, North Carolina and Virginia contained provisions expressly declaring that no power of suspending laws, or the execution of laws, should be exercised unless by the legislature, or by authority derived from it.
— from The Spirit of American Government A Study Of The Constitution: Its Origin, Influence And Relation To Democracy by J. Allen (James Allen) Smith

The contentions which have been among you, since I first became your pastor, have been one of the greatest burdens I have labored under in the course of my ministry: not only the contentions you have had with me, but those which you have had one with another about your lands and other concerns: because I knew that contention, heat of spirit, evil speaking, and things of the like nature, were directly contrary to the spirit of Christianity, and did, in a peculiar manner, tend to drive away God’s Spirit
— from Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards by Jonathan Edwards

Or, to those who enjoy Ocean Sailing, the statement is made that the pioneer line along the coast of Maine, making numerous landings at picturesque points, almost encircling the Island of Mt. Desert is the Portland, Mt. Desert and
— from The Senator's Favorite by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

His colleagues, older men, made no trial of their lesser strength, but were satisfied to declare the task to be impossible.
— from Burning Sands by Arthur E. P. Brome (Arthur Edward Pearse Brome) Weigall