The Lúrs are akin to the Kurds, and speak a Kurd dialect, as do all those Ilyáts, or nomads of Persia, who are not of Turkish race.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Old Mr. Brown turned up his eyes in disgust at the impertinence of Nutkin.
— from The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin by Beatrix Potter

It is curious to me that while so many voices, pens, minds, in the press, lecture-rooms, in our Congress, &c., are discussing intellectual topics, pecuniary dangers, legislative problems, the suffrage, tariff and labor questions, and the various business and benevolent needs of America, with propositions, remedies, often worth deep attention, there is one need, a hiatus the profoundest, that no eye seems to perceive, no voice to state.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

But whatever he does, I hope, for his own sake, and for the credit of the Liberal party, that he will be able to assign some better and more constitutional reason for the change, than the refusal of the English boroughs to bear arms in the crusade which is directed against the interests of Native Industry.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 70, No. 431, September 1851 by Various

The captain was also furnished with a large variety of European garden seeds, for distribution among the inhabitants of newly-discovered islands.
— from Captain Cook: His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries by William Henry Giles Kingston

They know the speed with which they come straight through the thin masquerade, and conceive a disgust at the indigence of nature:
— from Essays — Second Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson

To the collection of information in this direction, and the improvement of nautical methods, Prince Henry and his aids applied themselves most diligently; but he died before much had been accomplished.
— from The Book of the Ocean by Ernest Ingersoll

The human race, however varied in color or intellects, are all justly entitled to liberty; and it is the duty and the interest of nations and individuals, enjoying every blessing of freedoms to remove this dishonor of the Christian character from amongst them.
— from Anti-Slavery Opinions before the Year 1800 Read before the Cincinnati Literary Club, November 16, 1872 by George Buchanan

In disc armatures there is often no iron core, their thinness enabling this to be dispensed with.
— from The Standard Electrical Dictionary A Popular Dictionary of Words and Terms Used in the Practice of Electrical Engineering by T. O'Conor (Thomas O'Conor) Sloane

And whereas habits of industry and sobriety, and the means of acquiring and preserving property, are proper and reasonable preparatives to freedom, and will secure against an abuse of the same: Be it enacted, that every negro man, who shall have served ten years, and is thirty years of age, and is married, and has had two children born of any marriage, shall obtain the whole of Saturday for himself and his wife, and for his own benefit, and after thirty-seven years of age, the whole of Friday for himself and his wife: provided that in both cases the minister of the district and the inspector of negroes shall certify that they know nothing against his peaceable, orderly, and industrious behavior.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

The Melanesians are as skilful in ornamentation as in drawing, their drawing having a tendency to become transformed into pictography; pictography has almost entirely swallowed up drawing among the Indians of North America, but it reappears among the Hyperboreans (Eskimo, Chukchi, Yakuts, Tlinkits).
— from The Races of Man: An Outline of Anthropology and Ethnography by Joseph Deniker

"At midnight," she continued, reading aloud, "Rosanna Moxom, a lace-worker, was reported dying, and the injuries of nearly a dozen others are serious enough to excite alarm."
— from The Incendiary: A Story of Mystery by William Augustine Leahy