Most frequently the grant of this honour is coupled with Yarlígh ; "to such an one were granted Yarlígh and Páizah" the former word (which is still applied in Turkey to the Sultan's rescripts) denoting the written patent which accompanies the grant of the tablet, just as the sovereign's warrant accompanies the badge of a modern Order.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Yet it is scarcely too much to say that not one [Pg 76] Christian in a thousand guides or tests his individual conduct by reference to those laws.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

What plea can a vassal offer against his lord and master's decree?—Nevertheless, inasmuch as I am the nurtured gift of this house, I could not wish that on the last day's reckoning my blood should stand charged to your account.
— from The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2 by Sadi

Get out the hair I cut off, and we'll weave it into what I have left on my scalp."
— from The Purple Fern by Fergus Hume

It is surrounded by unappropriated ground, and the principal gate of the harem is close to its base.
— from The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan by James Justinian Morier

She said she had seen a child of about two years, clad in a blue and white striped dress and a big hat, going over the hill in company with a boy of about eight.
— from Our Next-Door Neighbors by Belle Kanaris Maniates

The viewpoint of the gentlemen on the Hill in charge of this bill is provincial.
— from Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him by Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick) Tumulty

By the glare of the headlights I could see that for quite a long way ahead, the road was closer to the edge than it ought to be.
— from Roy Blakeley's Silver Fox Patrol by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

"There was no visible connection between Sir Marcus's body in a packing-case in the hold of the Oritoga and the garage of the house in College Road until we found one," retorted Gatton.
— from The Green Eyes of Bâst by Sax Rohmer

Now that theories about the formal recensions of whole classes of these documents have generally been given up as purely visionary, and the very word families has come into disrepute by reason of the exploded fancies it recalls, we can discern not the less clearly that certain groups of them have in common not only a general resemblance in regard to the readings they exhibit, but characteristic peculiarities attaching themselves to each group.
— from A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener

It is as natural for the Gipsies to exist in their scattered state, as for other nations by the laws that preserve their identity; and although their history may be termed remarkable, it is in no sense of the word miraculous, notwithstanding the superstitious ideas held by many of the Gipsies on that head, in common with the Jews regarding their history.
— from A History of the Gipsies: with Specimens of the Gipsy Language by Walter Simson