The only reference made to the Patagonians by Albo is as follows: “Many Indians came there, who dress in certain skins of the anta , which resemble camels without the hump.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

The imperfection of the Poll Bill, which must be mended before they rise, there being several horrible oversights to the prejudice of the King, is a certain sign of the care anybody hath of the King’s business.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The old childish story of the two cakes had a deep meaning for him.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

In certain seasons of epidemic a roasted (barbecued) rattlesnake was kept hanging up in the house, and every morning the father of the family bit off a small piece and chewed it, mixing it then with water, which he spit upon the bodies of the others to preserve them from the contagion.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

The Foundation makes no representations concerning the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United States.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

History, ethnology, folklore, all the comparative studies of single cultural traits, i.e., of language, of religion, and of law, are but the more systematic pursuit of this universal interest of mankind in man.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

So instant was the scene, so trance-like its mild pictorial effect, so distant from her blasted bower and her common sense of things, that Hunilla gazed and gazed, nor raised a finger or a wail.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

I confess a chill settled on my heart.
— from Vailima Letters Being Correspondence Addressed by Robert Louis Stevenson to Sidney Colvin, November 1890-October 1894 by Robert Louis Stevenson

Examination and inquiry showed us no contiguous source of the message and it seemed most improbable that it had come to us from any distant part of the earth, as we had become acquainted with the difficulty or impossibility of bridging our very great distances with the resources then at human command, and with the unavoidable exigence of the earth's convexity.
— from The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars Being the Posthumous Papers of Bradford Torrey Dodd by L. P. (Louis Pope) Gratacap

Viewing the animal organism as thus differentiated, we see on the one hand a complex system of organs—glands, membranes, vessels—all harmoniously working to one end, which is to build up the body, and silently repair its continual waste.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

When the child caught sight of the hut at last, her heart began to beat.
— from Heidi (Gift Edition) by Johanna Spyri

In a despatch to the Duke of Portland he commented strongly on the same circumstance, expressing the opinion that "if the French should be able to possess themselves of that settlement it will be rather unfortunate for our distant colony."
— from The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders by Scott, Ernest, Sir

Even I, seeing the endless sweep of that sea of golden grass, [58] forgot for the moment the dry crackling sound of it under wheel and foot, and the awful monotony of its endlessness which could be so nerve-racking.
— from Land of the Burnt Thigh by Edith Eudora Kohl

Bayley slid his arm through mine and led me across a riding road towards a stretch of rough common (singularly out of place in a park) perhaps three-quarters of a mile long and half as wide.
— from Traffics and Discoveries by Rudyard Kipling

“No,” he was thinking to himself as he watched the curling smoke of his pipe, “she was not entirely deceived.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

The car smelled of sour food and sharp cigarettes and God, it smelled of the body in the trunk.
— from Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow