The circles are divided on both exterior and interior surface into 360 degrees; each degree into 60 minutes by transverse lines, and the minutes into sections of 10 seconds each by the sight-edge[2] applied to them."
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Each monarch keeps as many armies on foot as if his people were in danger of being exterminated: and they give the name of Peace to this general effort of all against all.”
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

She advised me to go; and I went—willing enough to see Lady Ashby, and her baby, too, and to do anything I could to benefit her, by consolation or advice; for I imagined she must be unhappy, or she would not have applied to me thus—but feeling, as may readily be conceived, that, in accepting the invitation, I made a great sacrifice for her, and did violence to my feelings in many ways, instead of being delighted with the honourable distinction of being entreated by the baronet’s lady to visit her as a friend.
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

153 Of the desire of being esteemed by those with whom we are.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

Uncle Pumblechook, sensible of having deserved well of his fellow-creatures, said,—quite vivaciously, all things considered,—“Well, Mrs. Joe, we'll do our best endeavors; let us have a cut at this same pie.”
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Of course, care must be taken not to create dangerous detachments, and whenever these reserves can be dispensed with, it should be done, or the troops in the depots only be employed as reserves.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

She was, she felt she was, in the greatest danger of being exquisitely happy, while so many were miserable.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Dumbells of Business DUMBELLS OF BUSINESS DUMBELLS OF BUSINESS Earning Bus Fare DUMBELLS OF BUSINESS by PROFF O.U. BOJACK ( Bus.Doc. ) AUTHOR OF “LITTLE NIFTY LESSONS IN SALESMANSHIP,” “LITTLE NIFTY LESSONS IN BUYING,” “LITTLE NIFTY LESSONS IN LOVE & MARRIAGE,” ETC.
— from Dumbells of Business by Louis Custer Martin Reed

In the midst of a mass of blackish debris, a , organic and inorganic, and immersed in an amorphous and transparent gangue, we find a few recognizable fragments, such as thick-walled macrospores, b , of various sizes, bits of flattened petioles, c , pollen grains, d , debris of bark, etc.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885 by Various

There he was greatly regarded by Margaret, the Duchess of Burgundy, Edward IV.'s sister, who retained him as long as she could at her court.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Wars of the Roses to the Great Rebellion by Anonymous

Githa the wife of Goodwine, and Judith the wife of Tostie, the daughter of Baldwine earle of Flanders went ouer also with their husbands.
— from Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (8 of 8) The Eight Booke of the Historie of England by Raphael Holinshed

When one lives under [Pg 109] the dominion of bells, every hour rung in and out with relentless precision, sans cloche means glorious saturnalia.
— from In Our Convent Days by Agnes Repplier

Such corpses, both at Athens and Sparta, were cast with the halter and their garments into a pit in an allotted quarter of the city, where the flesh might decay or be eaten by carrion birds.
— from The Burial Customs of the Ancient Greeks by Frank Pierrepont Graves