In Pauthier's text we seem to have first a journey of forty days from near Karakorúm to the Plain of Bargu, and then a journey of forty days more across the plain to the Northern Ocean.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

he cried, making a pirouette, “if it were only for distinguishing myself at fires!”
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The first Dr. Macaulay and Chief Justice Elmsley selected two adjoining park lots, both of them fronting, of course, on Lot Street.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

[ merīdiēs , noon ], of midday merīdiēs , —— (acc. -em , abl. -ē ), m. [ medius , mid , + diēs , day ], noon metus, -ūs , m. fear, dread meus, -a, -um , possessive adj.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

The market people crowd the marketplace with their baskets of figs, dates, melons, apricots, etc., and among them file trains of laden asses, not much larger, if any, than a Newfoundland dog.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Tyranny springs from democracy much as democracy springs from oligarchy.
— from The Republic by Plato

Every day I opened two or three fresh doors, each of which contained behind it so many curious things that I had no chance of feeling dull, much as I regretted the absence of the ladies.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

Of these, after the loss of his sons, he commended Nero and Drusus, the two eldest sons of Germanicus, to the senate; and at their being solemnly introduced into the forum, distributed money among the people.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

To this may also be added the disagreement between our commanders; for Juan de Grijalva persisted in his opinion that they should make an attempt to leave a colony behind, while Francisco de Montejo and Alonso de Avila, on the contrary, maintained that any such attempt would be fruitless, considering the multitude of warriors which inhabited these countries: to all this may be added that our men were heartily sick of the sea.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

in Rheinlande , No. 83; Roscher, Lexicon , ii. 2464 f. Footnote 143: (return) See Maury, Fées du Moyen Age ; Sébillot, i. 262; Monnier, 439 f.; Wright, Celt, Roman, and Saxon , 286 f.; Vallentin, RC iv.
— from The Religion of the Ancient Celts by J. A. (John Arnott) MacCulloch

But the time for De Montforts and Dominies had gone by.
— from Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 4 With a Memoir and Index by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Tinctures in armorial devices were, however, not always introduced on these scientific principles or adopted from any symbolic meaning, but as arbitrary variations of colour for distinction merely, and as being in themselves equally honourable; colour alone in many instances serving to distinguish the arms of many families that would otherwise be the same.
— from Fictitious & Symbolic Creatures in Art With Special Reference to Their Use in British Heraldry by John Vinycomb

The new marble altar is a thoughtful and painstaking construction; its details are derived from Donatellesque motives, and the bronzes are fitted in with skill.
— from Donatello, by Lord Balcarres by Crawford, David Lindsay, Earl of

For dinner, maize and beef or mutton made up the usual bill of fare.
— from Sawdust & Spangles: Stories & Secrets of the Circus by W. C. (William Cameron) Coup

"If I were called upon," he writes, "to draw a picture of the times and of men, from what I have seen, heard, and in part know, I should in one word say that idleness, dissipation, and extravagance seem to have laid fast hold of most of them; that speculation, peculation, and an insatiable thirst for riches seem to have got the better of every other consideration...; that party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day; whilst the momentous concerns of an empire, an accumulating debt, ruined finances, depreciated money, and want of credit ... are but secondary considerations."
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 11: American Founders by John Lord

Here Pizarro bought a great number more of pickaxes, shovels, and various other tools for digging, melting, and refining the gold he expected to find, besides hiring an additional number of labourers to assist him in the work.
— from The History of Sandford and Merton by Thomas Day

There is nothing like systematic misgovernment for degrading mankind, and I think it likely that the gradual fusion of the Arab and Berber races, so antagonistic in all their aspirations, may have helped to abrade the finer edges of both parent-stocks.
— from Fountains in the Sand: Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia by Norman Douglas

I can see no other reasonable one, than that the statements from it, sent to the French government as reasons for detaining me a prisoner, might have been partial and mutilated extracts; and he did not choose to have his accusations disproved by the production either of the original or an authentic copy.
— from A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 Undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803, in His Majesty's ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland schooner by Matthew Flinders