of this type, viz., that they clearly divide into two distinct recensions, of which both have so many peculiarities and errors in common that they must necessarily have been both derived from one modification of the original text, whilst at the same time there are such differences between the two as cannot be set down to the accidents of transcription.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Baldwin’s History of La Salle County lists Ove Stenson Rossadal and wife, and John Stenson Rossadal among the arrivals of 1835, and as being brothers of Daniel Rossadal, of whom we have spoken above.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

Maybe there was a murmur in the village streets, a novel and dominant topic in the public-houses, and here and there a messenger, or even an eye-witness of the later occurrences, caused a whirl of excitement, a shouting, and a running to and fro; but for the most part the daily routine of working, eating, drinking, sleeping, went on as it had done for countless years—as though no planet Mars existed in the sky.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Well I admit I have been to blame—I confess I deviated from the direct Road of wrong
— from The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The book was to him, Tom saw, the most vivid and delightful history of real people, who might do right or wrong, just like any one who was walking about in Rugby—the Doctor, or the masters, or the sixth-form boys.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

In judging men—when once his judgment was Determined, right or wrong, on friend or foe, Had all the pertinacity pride has, Which knows no ebb to its imperious flow, And loves or hates, disdaining to be guided, Because its own good pleasure hath decided.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

, but away by water to the Temple, and there, after spending a little time in my bookseller’s shop, I to Westminster; and there at the lobby do hear by Commissioner Pett, to my great amazement, that he is in worse condition than before, by the coming in of the Duke of Albemarle’s and Prince Rupert’s Narratives’ this day; wherein the former do most severely lay matters upon him, so as the House this day have, I think, ordered him to the Tower again, or something like it; so that the poor man is likely to be overthrown, I doubt, right or wrong, so infinite fond they are of any thing the Duke of Albemarle says or writes to them!
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

For the purpose of preserving order the masons working on the Temple were divided into three classes, Entered Apprentices, Fellow Crafts, and Master Masons, the first two distinguished by different pass-words and grips and paid at different rates of wages, the last consisting only of three persons--Solomon himself, Hiram King of Tyre, who had provided him with wood and precious stones and Hiram Abiff.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

“I do remember one who appeared to be in command, however--a big chappie with a red beard.”
— from The Radio Detectives in the Jungle by A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt) Verrill

The "Gaulois" dared not be the first sheet to publish the news of such a disaster; but despatches had already reached the Government, and by degrees rumors of what had happened crept through the streets of the capital.
— from France in the Nineteenth Century by Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer

Among periodicals which contain articles dealing with the decade, although published later, are The Democratic Review, of which the first number appeared in 1837; Hunt's Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review (first volume, 1839); and D. B. De Bow's Commercial Review of the South and West (first volume, 1846).
— from Rise of the New West, 1819-1829 by Frederick Jackson Turner

In regard to the Old Testament, conformity to Christ's teaching will determine rank; or, which is tantamount, conformity to that pure reason which is God's natural revelation in man; a criterion which assigns various ranks to such Scriptures as appeared among a Semite race at a certain stage of its development.
— from The Canon of the Bible by Samuel Davidson

Its amount might be permanently raised, if in consequence of a durable rise of wages a higher standard of comfort came to be habitual and to be counted essential, and the addition so made to it would then become as real an element of natural or necessary wages in the economic sense as the rest.
— from Contemporary Socialism by John Rae

[p 132] by its own impetus, till it vanished in the dark rim of wood on the opposite height.
— from The Fruit of the Tree by Edith Wharton

Yet drunkenness remains our worst vice, and in the social hierarchy none stands higher than the brewer, precisely as in the rest of England.
— from Paris Nights, and Other Impressions of Places and People by Arnold Bennett

Departments, communications of, with Appropriation Committees concerning estimates, 160-164 ; present methods of book-keeping in the, 163 ; heads of, make interest with Appropriation Committees, 163 ; Senate's share in control of the, 231 ; and Congress, defective means of coöperation between, 270 , 271 ; demoralizing relations of, with Congress, 277 , 278 ; exactions of Congress upon, 278 , 279 ; objects of suspicion because of their privacy, 299 , 300 .
— from Congressional Government: A Study in American Politics by Woodrow Wilson

Crown 8vo, cloth, 10 s. 6 d. Recollections of Writers.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes