(Extract from Letter published by the Fanfulla , Rome 2nd June, 1883.) —— How was the Trireme rowed?
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

55 , then draw out three or five threads more, turn the work round, and repeat the process, taking up the same clusters of threads which you took up in the first row of stitches, thus forming little perpendicular bars. Fig.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

206 And subsequently he addresses the candidate who has received the Master's degree in the following language:— "Profit by all that has been revealed to you.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

But he should not withhold his discoveries from the world, for there are doubtless many who, like myself, have not been able to find in all the fine things that have for long past been written in this department, anything that has advanced the science by so much as a fingerbreadth; we find indeed the giving a new point to definitions, the supplying of lame proofs with new crutches, the adding to the crazy-quilt of metaphysics fresh patches or changing its pattern; but all this is not what the world requires.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

It is often useful, and with the institutions of our own country even necessary, from the scarcity, in the localities, of officers representing the general government, that the execution of duties imposed by the central authority should be intrusted to functionaries appointed for local purposes by the locality.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

Also they saw the body of Feng lying pierced by the sword, amid his blood-stained raiment.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

lēafnes (ē, ȳ) f. leave, permission , BH.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

To the right and left of the lintel, which rests upon the jambs, there are to be projections fashioned like projecting bases and jointed to a nicety with the cymatium itself.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

Now commence by bending down one of the blossom-sheaths, lay hold of the central shoot, and thrice repeat the following lines:— “Peace be with your Highnesses, Princesses of the Shorn Hair and (perpetual) Distillation, Who are (seen) in the curve (lit. swell) and the ebbing away of the Blossom-sheath, Of the Blossom-sheath Si Gĕdĕbeh Mayang, Seven Princesses who are the Handmaidens of Si Mayang.”
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Slaettaratindur 882 m Fiji lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m highest point: Tomanivi 1,324 m Finland lowest point: Baltic Sea 0 m highest point: Haltiatunturi 1,328 m France lowest point: Rhone River delta -2 m highest point: Mont Blanc 4,807 m French Polynesia lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m highest point: Mont Orohena 2,241 m French Southern and Antarctic Lands lowest point: Indian Ocean 0 m highest point: Mont Ross on Iles Kerguelen 1,850 m Gabon lowest point: Atlantic Ocean 0 m highest point: Mont Iboundji 1,575 m Gambia, The lowest point: Atlantic Ocean 0 m highest point: unnamed location 53 m Gaza Strip lowest point: Mediterranean Sea 0 m highest point: Abu 'Awdah (Joz Abu 'Auda) 105 m Georgia lowest point: Black Sea 0 m highest point: Mt'a Shkhara 5,201 m Germany lowest point: Neuendorf bei Wilster -3.54 m highest point: Zugspitze 2,963 m Ghana lowest point: Atlantic Ocean 0 m highest point: Mount Afadjato 880 m Gibraltar lowest point: Mediterranean Sea 0 m highest point: Rock of Gibraltar 426 m Glorioso Islands lowest point: Indian Ocean 0 m highest point: unnamed location 12 m Greece lowest point: Mediterranean Sea 0 m highest point: Mount Olympus 2,917 m Greenland lowest point: Atlantic Ocean 0 m highest point: Gunnbjorn 3,700 m Grenada lowest point: Caribbean Sea 0 m highest point: Mount Saint Catherine 840 m Guam lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m highest point: Mount Lamlam 406 m Guatemala lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m highest point: Volcan Tajumulco 4,211 m Guernsey lowest point: Atlantic Ocean 0 m highest point: unnamed location on Sark 114 m Guinea lowest point: Atlantic Ocean 0 m highest point: Mont Nimba 1,752 m Guinea-Bissau lowest point: Atlantic Ocean 0 m highest point: unnamed location in the northeast corner of the country 300 m Guyana lowest point: Atlantic Ocean 0 m highest point: Mount Roraima 2,835 m Haiti lowest point: Caribbean Sea 0 m highest point: Chaine de la
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Now, lead the way, my dears, lead the way,' she said to her nine treasures, who thereupon set off with a rush, jumping and frisking and scuttering along, till Maia could hardly help bursting out laughing again, while she and Silva and Rollo and Waldo followed them into the supper-room, where, at the end of a long narrow table, covered with all sorts of queer-looking dishes, decorated with fern leaves, Papa Bushy, in a moss arm-chair, his tail comfortably waving over him like an umbrella, was already installed.
— from Christmas-Tree Land by Mrs. Molesworth

FARGUE, LEON PAUL. Banalite.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1955 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

As a consequence, great areas were submerged, 163 and hundreds of thousands of square miles of what is now fertile land, populated by millions and dotted by cities, became an ocean.
— from The Great Lakes The Vessels That Plough Them: Their Owners, Their Sailors, and Their Cargoes, Together with a Brief History of Our Inland Seas by James Oliver Curwood

But at times there was a look in her mistress' eyes and a certain atmosphere radiating from the frail little person before which Hobson quailed, so that she said quite gently, "Tea and one letter, your grace," when she found her sitting at the open window, looking out at the morning sky.
— from The Hawk of Egypt by Joan Conquest

His friends and fellow-artists, Franz Liszt, Hiller, and Sowinski, tried to dissuade him from leaving Paris, but Chopin would not listen to them.
— from Frederic Chopin: His Life, Letters, and Works, v. 2 (of 2) by Maurycy Karasowski

Written by P. M. and N. F. London, Printed by John Norton, for Francis Constable, and are to be sold at his shop at the Crane, in Pauls Churchyard.
— from The Fatal Dowry by Philip Massinger