Sir G. Carteret did go on purpose to the King to ask this, and it was granted.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Gobseck.] GRANDLIEU (Camille de).
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Enter J. J. Wood and Gopi Churn Das , the Dewan .
— from Nil Darpan; or, The Indigo Planting Mirror, A Drama. Translated from the Bengali by a Native. by Dinabandhu Mitra

And Ramusio: " Vi è anche una sorte di gente che si chiamano Argon, per che sono nati di due generazioni , cioè da quella di Tenduc che adorano gl' idoli, e da quella che osservano la legge di Macometto.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

It was a hard day's run, up the Canon, through Sheep Camp, past the Scales and the timber line, across glaciers and snowdrifts hundreds of feet deep, and over the great Chilcoot Divide, which stands between the salt water and the fresh and guards forbiddingly the sad and lonely North.
— from The Call of the Wild by Jack London

But to see the mischief, I hear that Sir G. Carteret did not seem pleased, but said nothing when he heard me proposed to come in Povy’s room, which may learn me to distinguish between that man that is a man’s true and false friend.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

I don't suppose the buyers of Americana sit up reading them all night—old Jefferson Gryce certainly didn't.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

The American Minister and the North German Chargé d'Affaires were also present.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

Monty was alive, but in spite of what Gloria could do the dark blood was welling out from a sword gash on his right side, and we had not a surgeon within miles of us.
— from The Eye of Zeitoon by Talbot Mundy

What the Government Can Do.
— from The Great American Fraud The Patent Medicine Evil by Samuel Hopkins Adams

This great central depôt was closely surrounded by other small farm-buildings, the most important being the cow-house, where, after a short run ashore on the marshes at the end of each voyage, a well-seasoned animal of the snug Alderney breed chewed the cud in sweet content.
— from The Book of the Ocean by Ernest Ingersoll

—Having defined our historical limits, it remains to consider the extent of Greek civilisation during that period, as attested by archaeological or other evidence.
— from History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. Volume 1 (of 2) by H. B. (Henry Beauchamp) Walters

This gifted child died between the ages of sixteen and eighteen; he was a frequent visitor at her bedside during a lingering illness, and it was his privilege to see that his labors had not been in vain.
— from Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel by John Yeardley

The German colonel didn't give them so much as a glance.
— from Dave Dawson in Libya by Robert Sidney Bowen

Adrian V. Ottoboni, a Genoese, cardinal deacon, elected pope 11th July, 1276, died 1276 190.
— from The Power of the Popes An Historical Essay on Their Temporal Dominion, and the Abuse of Their Spiritual Authority by P. C. F. (Pierre Claude François) Daunou

You don't suppose it's because I see every day the girls coming down to work, on the Massachusetts Avenue cars, do you?
— from White Ashes by Alden Charles Noble