[6] See a work to which I am indebted for a good deal of light and information, the Engineer Giovanni Casoni's Essay: " Dei Navigli Poliremi usati nella Marina dagli Antichi Veneziani ," in " Esercitazioni dell' Ateneo Veneto ," vol. ii.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

[ 6 ] Long since, a Mogul saw, in dream, A vizier in Elysian bliss; No higher joy could be or seem, Or purer, than was ever his.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

And thus perhaps everything that is most beautiful still takes place in the midst of darkness and vanishes in endless night almost as soon as it has made its appearance,—I
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

exclaimed Washington as he walked along the street leading from the depot, a valise in either hand.
— from Through Space to Mars; Or, the Longest Journey on Record by Roy Rockwood

The wood-cuts which are to be found in Italian books printed between 1500 and 1530 are mostly meagre in design and very indifferently engraved; and for many years after the German wood engravers had begun to give variety of colour and richness of effect to their cuts by means of cross-hatchings, their Italian contemporaries continued to adhere to the old method of engraving their figures, chiefly in outline, with the shadows and the folds of the draperies indicated by parallel lines.
— from A Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and Practical by Henry G. (Henry George) Bohn

Mr. H. H. Brown, of the Piscatorial Society, after I had read a paper to that Society on my theory of the right way to dress trout flies, described a very interesting experience which he had one day when out fishing, and which bears directly on this theory.
— from Old Flies in New Dresses How to Dress Dry Flies with the Wings in the Natural Position and Some New Wet Flies by Charles Edward Walker

When it is remembered that the bearing arms and performing military duty as volunteers is esteemed an honor and privilege, and is not allowed to the whites of Creole birth, except to a few who are favored by the government, the significance of this fact may be appreciated.
— from To Cuba and Back by Richard Henry Dana

—I will now describe a very interesting experiment which shows how an identical agent may, on account of difference in the tonic condition of the tissue, give rise to diametrically opposite effects.
— from Life Movements in Plants, Volume I by Jagadis Chandra Bose

As the few publications on the general subject, possessing more than historic interest, are meager in details and vague in expression, original investigation has been necessary.
— from Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 by Garrick Mallery

At almost 8° 15′ N. latitude it expands, and forms four considerable lakes of no great depth, and varying in extent according to the season.
— from The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Frederic H. Sawyer