[ Keshikhteng , a tribe ( pu ; mong. aimak ) of the Chao Uda League ( mêng ; mong.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

coledium —unidentified. List. colocasium , which see in notes to ℞ Nos.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

“You’re missing the prettiest part of the trip!” “Pshaw!” retorted Simoun, as he ascended, “I’ve seen so many rivers and landscapes that I’m only interested in those that call up legends.” “As for legends, the Pasig has a few,” observed the captain, who did not relish any depreciation of the river where he navigated and earned his livelihood.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

Not another word did he say of the case until late that night, when he was turning away, with his lighted candle, for his bedroom.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

It might have been fancied, indeed, that she expected to minister to the wants of the community unseen, like a disembodied divinity or enchantress, holding forth her bargains to the reverential and awe-stricken purchaser in an invisible hand.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

If you would conjure in her, you must make a circle; if conjure up love in her in his true likeness, he must appear naked and blind.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Evidence from North Carnarvonshire Upon leaving Anglesey I undertook some investigation of the Welsh fairy-belief in the country between Bangor and Carnarvon.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Now when Pisias' friend had come up like an aide-de-camp in war, "bloody with spurring, fiery red with haste," to report this news that Ismenodora had seized Baccho, my father said that Zeuxippus smiled, and being a great lover of Euripides repeated the line, "Lady, though rich, thou hast thy sex's feelings."
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

[2] —Hablaba Ud. hace un momento de diferencias en la legislación escolar dentro de cada país: ¿no está centralizada en cada una la dirección de la educación?
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Our capital city, unlike London or Paris, is not a great central heart from which life and vigor radiate to the extremities, but resembles more an isolated umbilicus stuck down as near as may be to the centre of the land, and seeming rather to tell a legend of former usefulness than to serve any present need.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

I go catch up Leith, give him one piece of paper the Kapitani gave me."
— from The White Waterfall by James Francis Dwyer

She looked at him steadily through the cold, uncertain light.
— from The Quest of Glory by Marjorie Bowen

So I thought I'd just creep up like a catamount and git the drap on some on you, an' then tell you, simple like, as how I didn't want to do you no harm if you'd do us fellers no harm.
— from Camp Venture: A Story of the Virginia Mountains by George Cary Eggleston

The École Supérieure de Guerre, commonly called the "École Militaire," remains nearly as when constructed under Louis XV., but it is impossible to fix on the room allotted to this student during his year there—a small, bare room, with an iron cot, one wooden chair, and a wash-stand with drawers.
— from The Stones of Paris in History and Letters, Volume 1 (of 2) by Benjamin Ellis Martin

L. Nemo quam bene vivat, sed quamdiu, curat: quum omnibus possit contingere ut bene vivat, ut diu nulli —No one concerns himself with how well he should live, only how long: while none can count upon living long, all have the chance of living well.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

It had been visited in February by a flying column under Lahoussaye, sent out from Talavera, which had got as far as Plasencia and Alcantara, and then retired, because it was absolutely impossible for 3,000 men to live in it.
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 4, Dec. 1810-Dec. 1811 Massena's Retreat, Fuentes de Oñoro, Albuera, Tarragona by Charles Oman

" "It is confoundedly unfortunate," Leslie commented, apparently glad of some excuse for expressing his disgust.
— from Thurston of Orchard Valley by Harold Bindloss

It contained a few words of gentle dignity from Mrs. Tucker, informing Don Jose that she had only that instant learned of his just claims upon Los Cuervos, tendering him her gratitude for his delicate intentions, but pointing out with respectful firmness that he must know that a moment's further acceptance of his courtesy was impossible.
— from On the Frontier by Bret Harte

As time went on and communities became more closely united leaders must have arisen for whom the people had only affection, in whose wisdom and willingness to help they had full confidence, and who were gratefully remembered as fathers, elders, and wise in counsel, and whose return would have been gladly welcomed.
— from The New Stone Age in Northern Europe by John M. (John Mason) Tyler