And it may be noted that Odoric, a generation after Polo, puts the Old Man at Millescorte , which looks like Malasgird , north of Lake Van, ( H. des Assass.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Cf. F. Q. i. 7. 16: "He gave her gold and purple pall to weare.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

To expel grief, and procure pleasure, sweet smells, good diet, touch, taste, embracing, singing, dancing, sports, plays, and above the rest, exquisite beauties, quibus oculi jucunde moventur et animi , are most powerful means, obvia forma , to meet or see a fair maid pass by, or to be in company with her.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

But it so happened that the power and hopes of his son became the cause of his perdition; for as Malichus was afraid of this, he corrupted one of the king's cup-bearers with money to give a poisoned potion to Antipater; so he became a sacrifice to Malichus's wickedness, and died at a feast.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

Hot and dry in the third degree: it is good against poison, pestilence, corrupt and unwholesome air, helps windiness in the stomach, causeth an appetite to one’s victuals, very profitable in falls and bruises, congealed and clotted blood, the bitings of mad-dogs; the leaves chewed in the mouth, cleanse the brain of superfluous humours, thereby preventing lethargies, and apoplexes.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

"My next object was to get a petition presented to the queen; but no person being admitted into the palace, who was in disgrace with his Majesty, I sought to present it through the medium of her brother's wife.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

This deed shall be begun here, and it shall be worshipful to God and plenteously profitable to His lovers in earth; and ever as we come to Heaven we shall see it in marvellous joy, and it shall last thus in working unto the last Day; and the worship and the bliss of it shall last in Heaven afore God and
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

HESPERUS Hesperus shines Low on the eastern wave, Off toward the Asian shore; Over faint lines Whose grays and purples pave Where seas night-calmed adore.
— from The Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English by Sappho

Greek authors, Plato, Plutarch, Athenaeus, &c., I have cited out of their interpreters, because the original was not so ready.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The measured tramp-tramp of feet came nearer and nearer, and in another moment the flare of smoking torches illumined the vaulted passage, casting many a ruddy flicker and flash on the ivory-gleaming whiteness of the vast skeleton army that stood with such grim and pallid patience as though waiting for a marching signal.
— from Ardath: The Story of a Dead Self by Marie Corelli

Sower, Christopher (c. 1724-1740), Germantown and Philadelphia, Pa.; also made clocks.
— from Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers by Silvio A. Bedini

It looks rather as if these were the votes of members who would have divided against the Bill if they had dared (and as they did so soon as they got a plausible pretext for doing so), but not daring, consented to assist in compassing its rejection by absenting themselves from the division.
— from William the Third by H. D. (Henry Duff) Traill

It is a great and powerful party, and I well know that it is their plan to place the Electoral Prince at their head, and through him to attain their ends."
— from The Youth of the Great Elector by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

II, of his Democracy of Christianity, thus sums up and concludes: "Glance over, again, the items included in these predictions:—The general and permanent prevalence of peace,—the result of justice, equity , SECURITY , and the actual possession ,
— from Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters by George Fitzhugh

This discipline is so admirable in some countries, especially in Europe, where much greater attention is paid to military tactics than in our country, that I have heard it said by travellers, that some of the soldiers who mount guard at public places, look as much like statues, as they do like living men.
— from The Teacher Or, Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and Government of the Young by Jacob Abbott

Seeming to collect his strength with great effort, he seized the line that held his own tiny craft to the wrecked ship, then grasping a pike pole, was prepared to give it a mighty shove that would send it far out.
— from The Phantom Violin A Mystery Story for Girls by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

If you wish to offer me a gift, a parting present, a keepsake, you must change the boon.'
— from Shirley by Charlotte Brontë

"I'll bet eight dollars if he ever does get a play produced there'll be nobody left in the theatre but the ushers and the spot light after the first act."
— from You Can Search Me by George V. (George Vere) Hobart

Abel appeared to them as the prosperous well-to-do bourgeois, high in favour with the Lord, a man with flocks, while Cain was a tiller of the ground, a poor peasant out of favour.
— from Legends of Florence: Collected from the People, First Series by Charles Godfrey Leland