The point of departure is indeed uncertain, but even if we were to place that at Sharakhs on the extreme verge of cultivated Khorasan, which would be quite inconsistent with other data, it would have taken the travellers something like double the time to reach Shíbrgán
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

In order to investigate the principles which regulate the exchangeable value of commodities, I shall endeavour to shew, First, what is the real measure of this exchangeable value; or wherein consists the real price of all commodities.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The costumes of the performers in the various kinds of dramatic exhibitions vary, of course, with the subject-matter of the representation.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

here a rode leads up the N. fork and passed over to an extensive vally on Clarks river at Some distance down that river as our guids inform us.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Despair is surrounded with fragile partitions which all open on either vice or crime.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

My Heart's In The Highlands The Whistle—A Ballad To Mary In Heaven Epistle To Dr. Blacklock The Five Carlins Election Ballad For Westerha' Prologue Spoken At The Theatre Of Dumfries 1790 Sketch—New Year's Day [1790] Scots' Prologue For Mr. Sutherland Lines To A Gentleman, Elegy On Willie Nicol's Mare The Gowden Locks Of Anna Postscript Song—I Murder Hate Gudewife, Count The Lawin Election Ballad Elegy On Captain Matthew Henderson The Epitaph Verses On Captain Grose Tam O' Shanter On The Birth Of A Posthumous Child Elegy On The Late Miss Burnet Of Monboddo 1791 Lament Of Mary, Queen Of Scots, On The Approach Of Spring There'll Never Be Peace Till Jamie Comes Hame Song—Out Over The Forth The Banks O' Doon—First Version The Banks O' Doon—Second Version The Banks O' Doon—Third Version Lament For James, Earl Of Glencairn Lines Sent To Sir John Whiteford, Bart Craigieburn Wood Epigram On Miss Davies The Charms Of Lovely Davies What Can A Young Lassie Do Wi' An Auld Man The Posie On Glenriddell's Fox Breaking His Chain Poem On Pastoral Poetry Verses On The Destruction Of The Woods
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

It is like it specially in this, that things are either very open, common and conventional, or else are very secret indeed.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Robert Morton made a contribution to the controversy in Lines Appended to the Nature, Quality and Most Excellent Vertues of Coffee in 1670.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

q. , 12 , 38 Nature, quality and most excellent virtues of c., The (broadside), ill. , 69 , 70 Navarro, Francisco Xavier, 9 , 225 Nave & McCord Merc.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

CASSIO Most fortunately: he hath achiev'd a maid That paragons description and wild fame, One that excels the quirks of blazoning pens, And in the essential vesture of creation Does tire the ingener.—
— from Othello, the Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare

We soon heard the tread, and the low but easy voices, of Captain Falconer and Lieutenant Campbell; who joined us with salutations, graceful on Falconer's part, and naturally awkward on that of Campbell.
— from Philip Winwood A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces. by Robert Neilson Stephens

[Pg 244] Convallaria flowers, 72 flowers, fluidextract, 72 root, 72 root, fluidextract, 73 Copaiba, 73 and opium, mixture, 73 mass, 73 mixture, 73 solidified (Massa copaibae), 73 Copaiva (Copaiba), 73 Copper sulphate, 77 Coptis, 73 fluidextract, 73 Cordial, blackberry, 186 Godfrey’s (Mistura opii et sassafras), 150 Cordials, 73 Coriander, 74 oil, 141 seeds (Coriandrum), 74 Corn silk (Zea), 228 starch (Amylum), 29 Cornus, 74 fluidextract, 74 Corrigens elixir (Elixir eriodictyi aromaticum), 83 syrupus (Syrupus eriodictyi aromaticus), 83 Corrosive mercuric chloride, 108 mercuric chloride mull, 109 mercuric chloride tablets, poison, 109 sublimate (Hydrargyri chloridum corrosivum), 108 sublimate tablets (Toxitabellae hydrargyri chloridi corrosivi), 109 Corydalis, 74 elixir, compound, 74 fluidextract, 73 Cotarnine chloride (Cotarninae hydrochloridum), 74 hydrochloride, 74 Cotton, absorbent (Gossypium purificatum), 103 purified, 103 root bark, 103 root bark, fluidextract, 103 styptic, 86 Cottonseed oil, 141 Couch grass (Triticum), 222 fluidextract (Fluidextractum tritici), 222 Coumarin, 74 Cow’s milk, 123 Crampbark (Viburnum opulus), 226 elixir, compound (Elixir viburni opuli compositum), 226 Cranberry bark, high bush (Viburnum opulus), 226 Cranesbill (Geranium), 101 Cream, cold (Unguentum aquae rosae), 186 of tartar (Potassi bitartras), 169 of tartar, and sulphur troches (Trochisci sulphuris et potassii bitartratis), 215 Creasote (Creosotum), 75 Creosote, 75 carbonate, 75 mull, salicylated, 12 petrox (Petroxolinum creosoti), 75 petroxolin, 75 water, 75 Cresol, 75 solution, compound, 75 Creta praeparata, 75 Crocus, 76 Croton oil, 148 collodion, 148 liniment, 149 liniment, compound, 149 Crude calcium sulphide, 50 malate of iron (Extractum ferri pomatum), 90 malate of iron tincture (Tinctura ferri pomata), 90 Cubeb, 76 fluidextract, 76 oil, 141 oleoresin, 76 tincture, 76 troches, 76 Cubebs (Cubeba), 76 Cudbear, 157 tincture, 157 tincture, compound, 157 Culver’s root (Leptandra), 124 Cupric sulphate (Cupri sulphas), 77 Curassao, replacing elixir (Elixir aurantii amari), 138 Curled dock (Rumex), 187 Cusso (Brayera), 43 Cypripedium, 77 fluidextract, 77 Cystamin (Hexamethylenamina), 107 Cystogen (Hexamethylenamina), 107 Dalby’s carminative (Mistura carminativa), 150 Damiana, 77 fluidextract, 77 Dandelion (Taraxacum), 217 fluidextract (Fluidextractum taraxaci), 218 Deadly nightshade leaves (Belladonnae folia), 38 nightshade root (Belladonnae radix), 39 Decoction of sarsaparilla, compound, 191 Decoctions, 77 Decolorized tincture of iodine, 118 Deer musk (Moschus), 135 Dehydrated alcohol, 18
— from Epitome of the Pharmacopeia of the United States and the National Formulary With Comments by William August Puckner

On some occasions, as our travellers afterwards learned, these regiments turned out in every variety of costume, with coats, hats, vests, and trousers, of all colours and patterns—as if they had been got up by an extensive dealer in old clothes.
— from The Fugitives: The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

"Dog of an American, she shall die if you come near her!" CHAPTER XXV THE RESCUE OF PEGGY Brewster's heart almost ceased beating, and every vestige of color left his face.
— from Brewster's Millions by George Barr McCutcheon

His mouth, she thought, was a trifle weak, yet not exactly weak either, but full-lipped and 80 sensual, with little curves at the corners which, she was sure, indicated either vindictiveness or cruelty, perhaps both.
— from The Trail to Yesterday by Charles Alden Seltzer

Under this treatment the hill Gonds soon lost every vestige of civilisation, and became the cruel, treacherous savages depicted by travellers of this period.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 3 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell