Besides this celebrated example, which has been described also by the Emperor Baber, I have noted that equally well-known one of the Jibal Nakús , or "Hill of the Bell," in the Sinai Desert; Wadi Hamade, in the vicinity of the same Desert; the Jibal-ul-Thabúl , or "Hill of the Drums," between Medina and Mecca; one on the Island of Eigg, in the Hebrides, discovered by Hugh Miller; one among the Medanos or Sandhills of Arequipa, described to me by Mr. C. Markham; the Bramador or rumbling mountain of Tarapaca; one in hills between the Ulba and the Irtish, in the vicinity of the Altai, called the Almanac Hills, because the sounds are supposed to prognosticate weather-changes; and a remarkable example near Kolberg on the shore of Pomerania.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

The nine of diamonds; diamonds, it is said, imply royalty, being ornaments to the imperial crown; and every ninth king of Scotland has been observed for many ages, to be a tyrant and a curse to that country.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

The emperor, now king of the petty Island of Elba, after having held sovereign sway over one-half of the world, counting as his subjects a small population of five or six thousand souls,—after having been accustomed to hear the “ Vive Napoléons ” of a hundred and twenty millions of human beings, uttered in ten different languages,—was looked upon here as a ruined man, separated forever from any fresh connection with France or claim to her throne.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

And not only did the Martians either not know of (which is incredible), or abstain from, the wheel, but in their apparatus singularly little use is made of the fixed pivot or relatively fixed pivot, with circular motions thereabout confined to one plane.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

I asked her if she knew what it was and she said she thought it was an extra nice kind of bicycle because her cousin in Montreal went on a honeymoon when he was married and he had always had the very latest in bicycles!
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

The inference that two things differ because their concomitants, effects, names, kinds, or—to put it generally—their signs , differ, is of course susceptible of unlimited complication.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

“I must admit that a Marionette fish is, for me, an entirely new kind of fish.
— from The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

Both must find it hard to realise a future of any kind; the one because the present is so living and hurrying and close around him; the other because his life tempts him to revel in the mere sense of animal existence, not knowing of, and consequently not caring for any pungency of pleasure for the attainment of which he can plan, and deny himself and look forward.'
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Or some entirely new kind of scientific exercise?
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

In his eyes no kind of untruth, however specious, could be a virtue.
— from Milton by John Cann Bailey

The exclamation of horror with which I received this recital elicited no kind of sympathy from Tristram.
— from Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall by Robert Stephen Hawker

The coarse term would be an insult to his refinement, his notable honor, and equally notable kindness of heart.
— from Jessamine: A Novel by Marion Harland

I got about half way through when the enemy, not knowing, of course, what was going on, began to shell the place, and some bits of mud and brick fell in the road not far off.
— from The Great War As I Saw It by Frederick George Scott

There were no last embraces, no kisses of farewell.
— from The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii by Jack London

Just their own five-spans-long limited modern experience; no knowledge of the past, and no wish to know it; still less a historic instinct, a power of "second sight" (which is what is really required in
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The first transition from the basilica to the Gothic church is called the Romanesque, and was made after the fall of the Empire, when the barbarians had erected new kingdoms on its ruins; when literature and art were indeed crushed, yet when universal desolation was succeeded by new forms of government and new habits of life; when the clergy had become an enormous power, greatly enriched by the contributions of Christian princes.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 1: The Middle Ages by John Lord

For a moment he feared the coalman might be trying on some elaborate new kind of joke, but the complacency of his face put it out of the question.
— from Erchie, My Droll Friend by Neil Munro