Several sites exhibiting extensive ruins near the banks of the Akhtuba have been identified with Sarai; two in particular.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

We had many pitched battles, during which no word was spoken, hardly a look was interchanged, but in which each resolved not to submit to the other.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Don't you, Nancy?” “Well, I can't say I do—all of 'em,” retorted Nancy, tersely.
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

It has already been intimated that sensational empiricism represents neither the idea of experience justified by modern psychology nor the idea of knowledge suggested by modern scientific procedure.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

In the first place, by the impact on the percipient, or ens representans, not the object itself, but only its action or effect, will pass into the same.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I see the utmost limits of natural necessity: and considering a poor man begging at my door, ofttimes more jocund and more healthy than I myself am, I put myself into his place, and attempt to dress my mind after his mode; and running, in like manner, over other examples, though I fancy death, poverty, contempt, and sickness treading on my heels, I easily resolve not to be affrighted, forasmuch as a less than I takes them with so much patience; and am not willing to believe that a less understanding can do more than a greater, or that the effects of precept cannot arrive to as great a height as those of custom.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

p. 37.—M.] The successors of Belisarius, eleven generals of equal rank, neglected to crush the feeble and disunited Goths, till they were roused to action by the progress of Totila and the reproaches of Justinian.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Simpson felt the cool air upon his cheek and uncovered head; realized that he was shivering with the cold; and, making a great effort, realized next that he was alone in the Bush— and that he was called upon to take immediate steps to find and succor his vanish
— from The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood

The tangle of stems that would not sustain him seemed equally resolved not to let him go.
— from Red Fox The Story of His Adventurous Career in the Ringwaak Wilds and of His Final Triumph over the Enemies of His Kind by Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir

But when once confirmed and established, Religion needs them not.
— from Twenty-four Discourses On Some of the Important and Interesting Truths, Duties, and Institutions, of the Gospel, and the General Excellency of the Christian Religion; Calculated for the People of God of Every Communion, Particularly for the Benefit of Pious Families, and the Instruction of All in the Things Which Concern Their Salvation by Nathan Perkins

I am sure that you yourself, when you consider more impartially what you have said, will be induced to believe, according to these lines of Du Bellay: "C'est chercher Rome en Rome, Et rien de Rome en Rome ne trouver."
— from Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre — Volume 1 by Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France

What, then, shall be said of an explorer who says he has found a new land and yet can give no intimation as to how one may proceed to arrive at the new land, what changes are to be made en route, nor the slightest suggestion as to the direction one should take in setting out for it?
— from The Mystery of Space A Study of the Hyperspace Movement in the Light of the Evolution of New Psychic Faculties and an Inquiry into the Genesis and Essential Nature of Space by Robert T. Browne

There shall be no vestige of civilization in my den, nothing to encourage reminiscences, nothing to suggest the masterful march of time.
— from Mariposilla: A Novel by Mary Stewart Daggett

We're overstocked with 'em right now, till this hotel and gurrage will have a 'ancient and a fishlike smell' as the Good Book says, for a generation."
— from The Reclaimers by Margaret Hill McCarter

On the last path her steps shall tread, Set forth, the journey of the dead, Watching, with vainly lingering gaze, Her last, last sun’s expiring rays, Never to see it, never more, For down to Acheron’s dread shore, A living victim am I led To Hades’ universal bed.
— from Lectures Delivered in America in 1874 by Charles Kingsley

So, with splendid grit, each resolved not to fall so long as hand would hold or foot lodge on the tiniest projection.
— from His Unknown Wife by Louis Tracy

But miserable as were the week-days—Sunday, after all, was the dreadful day for Katy; the long—long—long Sunday, when every book in the house was put under [266] lock and key; when even religious newspapers, tracts, and memoirs, were tabooed; when the old people, who fancied they could not go to church, sat from sunrise to sunset in their best clothes, with their hands folded, looking speechlessly into the fire; when there was no dinner; when the Irish girl and the cat, equally lawless and heretical, went to see their friends; when not a sound was heard in the house, save the ticking of the old claw-footed-clock, that stood in the entry; when Katy crept up to her little room, and crouching in a corner, wondered if God was good—why he let her papa die , and why he did not help her mamma, who tried so hard to earn money to bring her home.
— from Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time by Fanny Fern

“Well, I don’t know what master will say to you,” exclaimed Susan, as John entered the hall, evidently resolved not to lose sight of Digby, or his boxes, till he had delivered them into what he considered proper custody.
— from Digby Heathcote: The Early Days of a Country Gentleman's Son and Heir by William Henry Giles Kingston