Of contemporary or nearly contemporary references to our Traveller by name, the following are all that I can produce, and none of them are new.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

But I leave this suggestion which I have hazarded, and which borders perhaps upon extravagance, entirely undecided, for only a very intimate and devoted consideration of nature can raise or justify it.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Between Midhurst and Chichester, our next centre, rise the Downs, to a height of between seven hundred and eight hundred feet.
— from Highways and Byways in Sussex by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas

—Attention is invited to the following collection of notes concerning rat runs, rat nests and their locations and other data collected by the various working parties under the direction of Sanitary [106] Inspectors Brantigan, Renner and Kennard, of Manila.
— from Plague Its Cause and the Manner of its Extension, Its Menace, Its Control and Suppression, Its Diagnosis and Treatment by Thomas Wright Jackson

Cause ( of ), n. cause, reason (of), XI a 17, 54, XIII
— from A Middle English Vocabulary, Designed for use with Sisam's Fourteenth Century Verse & Prose by J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel) Tolkien

I saw a crowd of natives clustering round the trumpet mouth of a gramophone—an instrument which seems to have considerable charms for them.
— from India Impressions, With some notes of Ceylon during a winter tour, 1906-7. by Walter Crane

On the Cape Fear River, about thirty miles from the East coast of North Carolina rests the beautiful city of Wilmington.
— from Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly A Story of the Wilmington Massacre. by Jack Thorne

The love Georgia had given him was so entirely different from the pure, unselfish devotion of which Cleo was capable—he knew this as well as any one, and yet with his eyes open he had chosen the rush of the hurricane to the calm, steady current of never changing regard.
— from Miss Fairfax of Virginia: A Romance of Love and Adventure Under the Palmettos by St. George Rathborne

Peace over all, and the consciousness of nearness, Charity removing the remoteness of the gods; Spirit of compassion breathing with new clearness "There's a limit set to khama; there's a surcease from the rods."
— from Guns of the Gods: A Story of Yasmini's Youth by Talbot Mundy

Come on, Neale,” cried Ruth, and she started for the Stryver tent.
— from The Corner House Girls Under Canvas How they reached Pleasant Cove and what happened afterward by Grace Brooks Hill

But the best proof how severely Napoleon had felt the struggle of Preuss-Eylau, is to be found in a communication which he made to Frederick William, on the 13th of February, five days after the battle, offering him, in effect, the complete, or nearly complete restoration of his dominions, provided he would accept of a separate peace: with the king's answer; namely, that it was impossible for him to enter on any treaty unless the Czar were a party in it.
— from The History of Napoleon Buonaparte by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart