Starting again from Erguiul you ride eastward for eight days, and then come to a province called EGRIGAIA, containing numerous cities and villages, and belonging to Tangut.[NOTE 1] The capital city is called CALACHAN.[NOTE 2] The people are chiefly Idolaters, but there are fine churches belonging to the Nestorian Christians.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

But, in last year, when the late Collector came to see the said place, by that he ordered to the Todas first not to keep the buffaloes without feeding in the kraal, and second he ordered to kill each for every day, and to clear away the buffaloes, and not to keep the buffaloes without food.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

No podía achacarse 10 esto a descuidos de la Administración de Correos de Orbajosa, porque siendo el funcionario encargado de aquel servicio
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Without shutting herself up from her family, or leaving the house in determined solitude to avoid them, or lying awake the whole night to indulge meditation, Elinor found every day afforded her leisure enough to think of Edward, and of Edward's behaviour, in every possible variety which the different state of her spirits at different times could produce,—with tenderness, pity, approbation, censure, and doubt.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

But is utility the only creed which is able to furnish us with excuses for evil doing, and means of cheating our own conscience?
— from Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill

In every fact, every detail, and in the whole mental impression which they convey, these manuscripts bring before us the Casanova of the Memoirs.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Far as the east from even, Dim as the border star, — Courtiers quaint, in kingdoms, Our departed are. XXXIV.
— from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson

He did not abstain from conversing with me: he even called me as usual each morning to join him at his desk; and I fear the corrupt man within him had a pleasure unimparted to, and unshared by, the pure Christian, in evincing with what skill he could, while acting and speaking apparently just as usual, extract from every deed and every phrase the spirit of interest and approval which had formerly communicated a certain austere charm to his language and manner.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

“There’s De Walden for ever teaching those niggers, and there’s Ernest for ever dangling about Ella; and very pleasant I dare say, they find it.
— from Hair-Breadth Escapes: The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa by H. C. (Henry Cadwallader) Adams

We had forgotten Europe for eight days, and now the voice which aroused us announced "Lord Beaconsfield is dead!"
— from Hesperothen; Notes from the West, Vol. 1 (of 2) A Record of a Ramble in the United States and Canada in the Spring and Summer of 1881 by Russell, William Howard, Sir

the Unseen Power, whose eye For ever doth accompany mankind, Hath looked on no religion scornfully That man did ever find.
— from Rebuilding Britain: A Survey of Problems of Reconstruction After the World War by Hopkinson, Alfred, Sir

Tilghman, too, accused himself that he felt a little relieved when he escorted Rhoda back to Meshach's in another bonnet, and Vesta followed, with her great shaggy dog, Turk; she not unconscious—though serene and thoughtfully polite to all she knew—of people peering at her in wonder and excitement from every door and window of the town.
— from The Entailed Hat; Or, Patty Cannon's Times by George Alfred Townsend

The extracts from his Thesis, De Mentis Exercitatione et Felicitate exinde derivandâ , are very curious—showing the native vigor and bent of his mind, and indicating also, at once the identity and the growth of his thoughts during the lapse of thirty-three years.
— from Spare Hours by John Brown

They two and I sat down to play, while my dear and tenderly loved brother, not liking the idea of playing cards, turned to his music, which he was composing as a graduating exercise for examination day, and went to work at that.
— from Stories Worth Rereading by Various