The heavy dust then settled down, the lighter particles remained in the air, forming a dry fog of such density that large objects, like houses, trees, etc., could not even faintly be distinguished at a distance of a hundred paces.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

To prevent the exchequer from being defrauded, let all public money be delivered out openly in the face of the whole city, and let copies of the accounts be deposited in the different wards tribes, and divisions.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

H2 anchor School-Divinity Lastly, the Metaphysiques, Ethiques, and Politiques of Aristotle, the frivolous Distinctions, barbarous Terms, and obscure Language of the Schoolmen, taught in the Universities, (which have been all erected and regulated by the Popes Authority,) serve them to keep these Errors from being detected, and to make men mistake the Ignis Fatuus of Vain Philosophy, for the Light of the Gospell.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Borís looked attentively and kindly at her eager face, but did not reply.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

ealuscerwen f. bitter drink ?
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

“We don’t do the French any harm,” said Tíkhon, evidently frightened by Denísov’s words.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

For a few moments I gazed with delight on her dark eyes, fringed by deep lashes, and her lovely lips; but presently my rage returned: I remembered that I was for ever deprived of the delights that such beautiful creatures could bestow; and that she whose resemblance I contemplated would, in regarding me, have changed that air of divine benignity to one expressive of disgust and affright.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

This tendency, which is sufficient to prevent estates from being divided ad infinitum , is not strong enough to create great territorial possessions, certainly not to keep them up in the same family.
— from American Institutions and Their Influence by Alexis de Tocqueville

The main causes of agricultural depression, and of continued wrongdoing on the part of landed proprietors, are the laws which allow the owners to make deeds and wills which for many years, and often long after the owners’ deaths, prevent the land from being sold, or the estate from being divided, no matter how p. 46
— from Crying for the Light; Or, Fifty Years Ago. Vol. 3 [of 3] by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction By Dorothy Scarborough, Ph.D. Instructor in English in Extension, Columbia University G. P. Putnam’s Sons New York and London The Knickerbocker Press 1917 Copyright, 1917 by G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
— from The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction by Dorothy Scarborough

This would to a great degree have been lost had I attempted to render into purely English idiom a work that is not only written in a careless, familiar, and conversational form, and abounds in turns of expression which are essentially Florentine, but derives its interest, in part at least, from this very peculiarity.
— from Thoughts on Art and Autobiographical Memoirs of Giovanni Duprè by Giovanni Duprè

" Madame Bonneville, unable to speak English, found Bordentown dull, and soon turned up in New York.
— from The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. 2. (of 2) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England by Moncure Daniel Conway

Ammonia and Ether, followed by Digitalis and Alcohol: in heart failure.
— from Merck's 1899 Manual of the Materia Medica by Merck & Co.

There is no caniniform enlargement of any of the teeth, the longest tooth of each fragment being differently placed in the series of teeth and little longer than the others.
— from Two New Pelycosaurs from the Lower Permian of Oklahoma by Richard C. Fox

2. Vessels of the United States or Great Britain traversing the said canal shall, in case of war between the contracting parties, be exempted from blockade, detention, or capture by either of the beligerents, and this provision shall extend to such a distance from the two ends of the said canal, as may hereafter be found expedient to establish.
— from The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1 by Various

The system as it now stands divides the world into two spheres—a small one, in which a few live surfeitingly by owning, and a large one, in which the [Pg 29] many live starvingly by working; and, yet, ultimately, absolutely everything for both depends upon the worker and nothing at all on the owner.
— from Communism and Christianism Analyzed and Contrasted from the Marxian and Darwinian Points of View by William Montgomery Brown

At the north end of the Danish position stood the only permanent battery, the Trekroner, with two hulks or blockships; the rest consisted of seven blockships and eleven floating batteries, drawn up along the shore.
— from The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) by John Knight Fotheringham