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— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

The parson, who was not only strictly chaste in his own person, but a great enemy to the opposite vice in all others, fired at this information.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

He has the head of a bear; the legend being that while quarrelling with another giant his head was knocked off, and the god Senasura was gracious enough to tear off the head of a bear and clap it on the decapitated giant.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

The earth does not withhold, it is generous enough, The truths of the earth continually wait, they are not so conceal'd either, They are calm, subtle, untransmissible by print, They are imbued through all things conveying themselves willingly, Conveying a sentiment and invitation, I utter and utter, I speak not, yet if you hear me not of what avail am I to you? To bear, to better, lacking these of what avail am I? (Accouche! accouchez!
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

“I congratulate you; the cardinal’s influence in Rome is greater even than that of the Pope.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Even though reason could not refute, faith would smile at these argumentations, with which the godless endeavour to turn our simple piety from the right way, that we may walk with them "in a circle.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Thence I away, with my head busy, but my heart at pretty good ease, to the Old Exchange, and there met Mr. Houblon.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

A hundred times have I seized a dagger, to give ease to this oppressed heart.
— from The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Until then he had not been supposed to have any wife, and he also might have himself brought his own progeny into being; but lest a power of spontaneous generation equal to that of the demiurge should be ascribed to him, he was married, and the wife found for him was Tafnûît, his twin sister, born in the same way as he was born.
— from History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12) by G. (Gaston) Maspero

Emilie assured her mother that she should cheerfully submit to much greater evils than that of working at a tambour frame; and that, as far as her own feelings were concerned, she should infinitely prefer living by labour to becoming dependent.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 06 by Maria Edgeworth

I have often wished, as the criticisms of the Pullman smoking car, the cloak room, and the counting house were carried to me, picturing the President's coldness, his aloofness and exclusiveness, that the critics could for a moment have seen the heart and great good-nature of the man giving expression to themselves on this critical journey.
— from Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him by Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick) Tumulty

He writes: "I began (1666) to think of gravity extending to the orb of the moon, ... and
— from An Introduction to the History of Science by Walter Libby

252 , 259 , 318 , 484 Gibbon, Edward, “the tyranny of lawyers,” vol.
— from The Life of Sir Rowland Hill and the History of Penny Postage, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Hill, Rowland, Sir

Behind this fairy knoll the hill rose in rifted perpendicular faces of rock, garlanded and crowned with hanging coppices, for two or three hundred feet in height; the nesting-place of noble falcons, peregrines, gosshawks, haggards of the rock, and of a single pair of golden eagles, the terror of the dale from time immemorial.
— from Wager of Battle: A Tale of Saxon Slavery in Sherwood Forest by Henry William Herbert

Those were evenings of great emotion to the old blind sister.
— from Beatrix by Honoré de Balzac

But this was far from being the case; and though by unwearied diligence they gained even the top of the room, their situation was just the same; they saw nothing of the dancers, but the high feathers of some of the ladies.
— from Jane Austen and Her Times by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton

He works in oils to a greater extent than the others and has a number of comparatively finished pictures; but his studio resembles that of any rather undistinguished uptown artist in point of diversity 268 of subject and artistic impulse.
— from The Spirit of the Ghetto: Studies of the Jewish Quarter in New York by Hutchins Hapgood