Rubruquis describes in Batu Khan's tent a buffet near the entrance, where Kumiz was set forth, with great goblets of gold and silver, etc., and the like at the tent of the Great Kaan.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Nor play with costarmongers, at mum-chance, tray-trip, God make you rich; (when as your aunt has done it); But keep The gallant'st company, and the best games— DAP.
— from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

Taki was dressed in blue kami-shimo of hempen cloth; the kai-shaku wore war surcoats ( jimbaori ).
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

The ostrich indeed inhabits continents, and is exposed to danger from which it cannot escape by flight, but it can defend itself, by kicking its enemies, as efficiently as many quadrupeds.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

He should restore the captives and deserters; give up the elephants and triremes save five (including the flagship, a vessel of sixteen banks), pay an indemnity, part at once, the rest in definite installments; be king of Macedonia alone; not keep more than five thousand soldiers, nor make war with any person outside his own country.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

If this be the case, then a demon is better known by these good gods through nearness of body, than a man is by goodness of mind.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

For my own part, inasmuch as Dexippus, I believe, keeps telling Cleander that Agasias would never have done this had not I, Xenophon, bidden him, I absolve you of all complicity, and Agasias too, if Agasias himself states that I am in any way a prime mover in this matter.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

I, who would undergo all the plagues and miseries which any daemon ever invented for mankind, to procure her any good; nay, torture itself could not be misery to me, did I but know that she was happy.”—“Why, look you there now,” says the landlady; “I told her you was a constant lovier.”—“But
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

And their astonishment may be well conceived, when the next day it became known, all over Bremen, that the ‘lot of brass’ which they had carted so contemptuously to the police office, without putting themselves to the trouble of pocketing the smallest scrap, was not only gold—real gold—but gold far finer than any employed in coinage-gold, in fact, absolutely pure, virgin, without the slightest appreciable alloy.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

And by means of that mysterious indefinable bond which maintains throughout an army one and the same temper, known as “the spirit of the army,” and which constitutes the sinew of war, Kutúzov’s words, his order for a battle next day, immediately became known from one end of the army to the other.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The sultans who followed Karamat are, in the order of their succession, Shahabud Din, Mustafa Shafiʿud Din, Badarud Din I, Nasarud Din, and Alimud Din I, better known as Amirul Mu’minin (Ferdinand I of Sulu).
— from The History of Sulu by Najeeb M. (Najeeb Mitry) Saleeby

The whole deal is being kept strictly under wraps until Leffingwell's experiments prove out.
— from This Crowded Earth by Robert Bloch

Not until the second day did it become known that he had been seen at daybreak forty miles from Red Gap, goading a spent horse into the wilds of the adjacent mountains.
— from Ruggles of Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson

Our path was solitary, but by another meeting it trooped gaily dressed villagers, brilliant in blue, red, and pink—sometimes whole families, father, mother, sons, and daughters in blue kimonos all alike.
— from A Journal from Japan: A Daily Record of Life as Seen by a Scientist by Marie Carmichael Stopes

DEALERS IN BEE KEEPERS' SUPPLIES.
— from Bees by Everett Franklin Phillips

Once the secret of his dual identity became known, he knew that he faced either death from the hands of criminals or prison from the hands of police.
— from Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 by Various

“By degrees I became known, and somewhat of a favorite among the hunters of the neighborhood; that is to say, men who lived within a circle of thirty or forty miles, and came occasionally to see John Miller, who was a patriarch among them.
— from The Crayon Papers by Washington Irving

Hence we make it a rule, that whenever the patient requires to evacuate the bladder, she should do it by kneeling: by this means the position of the vagina is altered, and the accumulated discharges and coagula readily drain away and produce the greatest relief.
— from A System of Midwifery by Edward Rigby

From that day it became known as the Chamkora diamond, and came into the possession of the present Ibrāhīm ʿĀdil K͟hān during the interregnum ( fatarāt ) of Ahmadnagar.
— from The Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri: or, Memoirs of Jahangir (Volume 1 of 2) by Emperor of Hindustan Jahangir

Did I but know where thy parents dwelt, I would fain bring thee to them, and then teach them how to bring up children.
— from The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim by Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen