You must know that beside the Palace (that we have been describing), i.e. the Great Palace, the Emperor has caused another to be built just like his own in every respect, and this he hath done for his son when he shall reign and be Emperor after him.[NOTE 14]
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

With my ships I have taken twelve cities, and eleven round about Troy have I stormed with my men by land; I took great store of wealth from every one of them, but I gave all up to Agamemnon son of Atreus.
— from The Iliad by Homer

But there was never any encouraging result; and therefore he finally lost almost all interest, and hardly troubled himself to inspect results at all.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

Through a remarkable disruption of both these primitive artistic impulses, the ruin of Greek tragedy seemed to be necessarily brought about: with which process a degeneration and a transmutation of the Greek national character was strictly in keeping, summoning us to earnest reflection as to how closely and necessarily art and the people, myth and custom, tragedy and the state, have coalesced in their bases.
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

This, I think, is exactly right, as to how our forces should move.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

When Eliza referred again to her project of teaching phonetics, Higgins abated not a jot of his violent opposition to it.
— from Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

It was very warm, and for a while they did nothing but exchange remarks about the heat, the sun, the glare.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

A mechanical form of existence regarded as the highest and most respectable form of existence, worshipping itself (type: Kant as the fanatic of the formal concept "Thou shalt").
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Despite the elemental rage, Again they hurried to engage; But, ere they closed in desperate fight, Bloody with spurring came a knight, Sprung from his horse, and from a crag Waved 'twixt the hosts a milk-white flag.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

With every word she spoke he found her more and more fascinating—she had a quaint directness of speech which was extremely refreshing after the half-veiled subtleties conveyed in the often dubious conversation of the women he was accustomed to meet in society—while there was no doubt she was endowed with extraordinary intellectual grasp and capacity.
— from Innocent : her fancy and his fact by Marie Corelli

A nobody by comparison to Alexander, unworthy of a footnote where Cæsar is concerned, through sheer pomp, through really royal magnificence, through a self-infatuation at once ridiculous and sublime, through the introduction of a studied politeness, a ceremonial majestic and grave, through a belief naïvely sincere and which he had the ability to instil, that from him everything radiated and to him all, souls, hearts, lives, property, everything, absolutely belonged, through these things, in a gilded balloon, this pigmy rose to the level of heroes and hung there, before a wondering world, over a starving land, until the wind-inflated silk, pierced by Marlborough, collapsed.
— from Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus

In passing, I may say that the professor is recognized by everybody as a most dependable authority—that is, everybody save the railroad and express raiders and their hired men.
— from Postal Riders and Raiders by W. H. Gantz

That the risk must be taken was a foregone conclusion, but how to keep the engines running at that high speed without attention—for it was evident that no man could live for many minutes in the poisonous fumes—was a more difficult problem.
— from Submarine Warfare of To-day How the Submarine Menace Was Met and Vanquished, with Descriptions of the Inventions and Devices Used, Fast Boats, Mystery Ships, Nets, Aircraft, &c. &c., Also Describing the Selection and Training of the Enormous Personnel Used in This New Branch of the Navy by Charles W. (Charles William) Domville-Fife

The Englishman rose and turned his head away.
— from The Eternal City by Caine, Hall, Sir

He then pawned to the master of the table successively every ring and trinket he had, for money to continue the stakes.
— from The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims. Volume 2 (of 2) by Andrew Steinmetz

Ferret , a pawnbroker or tradesman, that sells goods to young spendthrifts upon trust, at excessive rates, and then hunts them without mercy, and often throws them into jail, where they perish for their debt.
— from The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew, King of the Beggars Containing his Life, a Dictionary of the Cant Language, and many Entertaining Particulars of that Extraordinary Man by Unknown

"It is moved and seconded that we all do as we like except Roger and that he talk parliamentary fashion all the time."
— from Ethel Morton at Chautauqua by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith

Eskimo readily agree to help us find them and to let me take them.
— from Anthropological Survey in Alaska by Aleš Hrdlička