It seems as if two persons of that name had each contributed something to Marco's history.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

"Under existing conditions some ten men at the most should be enough to operate it."
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

The most severe rebuke or even chastisement seemed to me at those times no more than a blessed release.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, / The earth and every common sight, / To me did seem / Apparelled in celestial light, / The glory and the freshness of a dream.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

And since there are two efficient causes, some things must, he says, be affirmed to exist in consequence of intellect, and some from some necessary cause.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

I did not tell you so, because I vainly thought I could conquer my weaker feelings, and render every consideration subservient to my duty to you.’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Versilis tunc erat, cum subito tota machinis quibusdam convertebantur, et aliam picturae faciem ostendebat.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

"Then, if you are sufficiently rested and refreshed, let us bend our steps toward the Emerald City," suggested the magnified one.
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

The library at Christ Church, or any other work of the eighteenth century, seems to me as divine a thing, though as yet it lacks the complete unction of antiquity, as Mob Quad at Merton or Magdalen Tower.
— from Oxford by Edward Thomas

Plays were discussed in manuscript, novels on the eve of publication; inventors came here to suggest plans for airships, or to explain how the earth could signal to Mars.
— from The Spider by Fergus Hume

operâ novi regis ne sæviret in ecclesiam, impetum cohiberet et consilii sui temperaret malitiam.
— from Life of Thomas à Becket by Henry Hart Milman

[201] While these friends were all gathered about Molly and the baby, Alice Fern, Edwin Green’s cousin, driving in to Wellington in a very stylish new electric car, stopped to make a fashionable call on her law kin.
— from Molly Brown of Kentucky by Nell Speed

“It’s a good job for everybody concerned,” said the Major, “that we’re brought up short.
— from General John Regan by George A. Birmingham

" She half-dragged and half-led him into the small parlour, and thrusting him into the easy-chair lately vacated by Mrs. Gimpson seated herself upon his knee, regardless in her excitement that the rightful owner was with elaborate care selecting the most uncomfortable chair in the room.
— from The Castaway Odd Craft, Part 2. by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

She half-dragged and half-led him into the small parlour, and thrusting him into the easy-chair lately vacated by Mrs. Gimpson seated herself upon his knee, regardless in her excitement that the rightful owner was with elaborate care selecting the most uncomfortable chair in the room.
— from Odd Craft, Complete by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

Who would have thought that even an idle song Were such a holy and celestial thing That wickedness and envy cannot sing— That music for no moment lives with wrong?
— from The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by George MacDonald

This morning we had a victoria with a pair of rats to drive down to the English Consulate, some three miles off, and which lies on the commercial wharfs.
— from Forty Thousand Miles Over Land and Water The Journal of a Tour Through the British Empire and America by Ethel Gwendoline Vincent