Major Montgomerie, R.E., of the Indian Survey, who has probably passed more time nearer the heavens than any man living, sends me the following note on this passage: "What Marco Polo says as to fire at great altitudes not cooking so effectually as usual is perfectly correct as far as anything boiled is concerned, but I doubt if it is as to anything roasted .
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

On the other hand, Claude Fauchet, preparing mankind for a Golden Age now apparently just at hand, has opened his Cercle Social, with clerks, corresponding boards, and so forth; in the precincts of the Palais Royal.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

I believe Richard's was as frank and generous a nature as there possibly can be.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

You may, therefore, comprehend, that being of no country, asking no protection from any government, acknowledging no man as my brother, not one of the scruples that arrest the powerful, or the obstacles which paralyze the weak, paralyzes or arrests me.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

We should be frivolous and inconstant, taking our philosophy for a game and not for method in living, if having set out to look for the causes and practical order of things, and having found them, we should declare that they were not really casual or efficient, on the strange ground that our discovery of them had been a feat of intelligence and had proved a priceless boon.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

“What’s that to me?” From another group: “Asses!” “No, they are not asses; it’s we who are the asses.”
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

When the trees become too tall, they are simply cut off about two feet above ground; and new shoots appear from the trunks the following season.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Each cell of the brain is reburnished and refreshened; all the ashes or waste from the combustion of the tissues is washed out into the blood stream, pumped to the lungs, and thrown out in the breath; and the body is returned in the morning as fresh and good as new.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

He had already called for a glass, and now called for another.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

When this pattern is worked for a gimp and not a fringe, the threads are made to end in knots, as explained in fig.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

If this thing ever did catch on fire and get a nice start it would go like a bundle of shavings.
— from Catcher Craig by Christy Mathewson

The truth of man’s apostacy from original righteousness forms a grand and necessary link in p. 167 the golden chain of evangelical doctrines.
— from Sermons by the late Rev. Richard de Courcy by Richard De Courcy

That on the stretched forefinger of all Time Sparkle for ever: then we dipt in all That treats of whatsoever is, the state, The total chronicles of man, the mind, The morals, something of the frame, the rock, The star, the bird, the fish, the shell, the flower, Electric, chemic laws, and all the rest, And whatsoever can be taught and known; Till like three horses that have broken fence, And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn, We issued gorged with knowledge, and I spoke: 'Why, Sirs, they do all this as well as we.'
— from The Princess by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

And these were their places of employment: some were to make the graves, some to bury the dead, and some were to go to and fro in the plains, and also round about the borders of Mansoul, to see if a skull, or a bone, or a piece of a bone of a doubter, was yet to be found above ground anywhere near the corporation; and if any were found, it was ordered, that the searchers that searched should set up a mark thereby, and a sign, that those that were appointed to bury them might find it, and bury it out of sight, that the name and remembrance of a Diabolonian doubter might be blotted out from under heaven; and that the children, and they that were to be born in Mansoul, might not know, if possible, what a skull, what a bone, or a piece of a bone of a doubter was.
— from The Holy War, Made by King Shaddai Upon Diabolus, for the Regaining of the Metropolis of the World; Or, The Losing and Taking Again of the Town of Mansoul by John Bunyan

Dick's tail-feathers will grow out again, and everything could be fixed as good as new except the old blue dragon, and he was too ugly to make a fuss about, anyhow!"
— from The Story of Dago by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

“Here’s Billy,” shouted Hun Bun, “With an appetite so hearty He gobbled up a fence and gate And nearly ate the party!”
— from Billy in Bunbury by Royal Baking Powder Company

We are all getting ready for another 'go' and not in the least beaten or downhearted.
— from Gallipoli Diary, Volume 1 by Ian Hamilton

But she esteemed him—she must own to a deep feeling of esteem for one of so noble, frank, and generous a nature.
— from By Birth a Lady by George Manville Fenn

She was dressed in dry clothes from the box and seemed to be feeling as good as new.
— from Cy Whittaker's Place by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

And when fish and game are not in season, I shall be unda the necessity of westwicting my appetite to "A scwip with hawbs and fwuits supplied, And wataw fwom the spwing."
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXVII, August 1852, Vol. V by Various