Moorcroft says of the plain between Kunduz and the Oxus: "Deer, foxes, wolves, hogs, and lions are numerous, the latter resembling those in the vicinity of Hariana" (in Upper India).
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Even if we know that hunger and love are not the only things that sustain impulse, we also know the profound influence that love and all that depends upon it exercise from time immemorial on the course of events.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Beautiful as Mrs. Kenwigs looked when she was dressed though, and so stately that you would have supposed she had a cook and housemaid at least, and nothing to do but order them about, she had a world of trouble with the preparations; more, indeed, than she, being of a delicate and genteel constitution, could have sustained, had not the pride of housewifery upheld her.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

I also, with a view to sometimes slipping up to my sisters’ room, oiled my own and their doors, hinges, and locks, as now that the ice was broken with Miss Frankland, it would be necessary to be doubly careful not to excite suspicion of my visits to my sisters.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

The very spirit of the Greek mythology inhabited my heart; I deified the uplands, glades, and streams, I Had sight of Proteus coming from the sea; And heard old Triton blow his wreathed horn.[1] Strange, that while the earth preserved her monotonous course, I dwelt with ever-renewing wonder on her antique laws, and now that with excentric wheel she rushed into an untried path, I should feel this spirit fade; I struggled with despondency and weariness, but like a fog, they choked me.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Pursued further and allowed to dominate, it would destroy the tragedy; for it is necessary to tragedy that we should feel that suffering and death do matter greatly, and that happiness and life are not to be renounced as worthless.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

Then she went away alone in a taxi to the depot, and started on her journey with a six-shooter jostling a box of chocolates in her suit-case, and with her heart almost light again, now that she was at last following a clue that promised something at the other end.
— from Jean of the Lazy A by B. M. Bower

Here they stopped for an hour or two, and then the sea breeze sprang up, a sail was hoisted, and late at night they passed a French guardship placed to mark the boundary of that settlement at a point where a large tributary called the Boqui runs into it.
— from By Sheer Pluck: A Tale of the Ashanti War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Giving aid and comfort to the enemy Without let or hindrance A let in tennis _Quick_lime Cut to the quick Neat -foot oil To sound in tort (Legal phrase) To bid one God_speed_ I had as lief as not The child favors its parents On pain of death Widow's weeds I am bound for the Promised Land To carry a girl to a party (Used only in the South) To give a person so much to boot 5.
— from The Century Vocabulary Builder by Joseph M. (Joseph Morris) Bachelor

He had a lantern, and noticed the state we were in at once.
— from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 426 Volume 17, New Series, February 28, 1852 by Various

Assuredly not; moved by some completely inexplicable influence, utterly alien to himself, his birth, his training, he had deliberately and persistently questioned her, prolonged a trifling encounter unjustifiably, whirled her away, literally; and now that he had found no suitable place of deposit it was incredible that he should deliver this extraordinary and self-assumed charge to civil authority.
— from Margarita's Soul: The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty by Josephine Daskam Bacon

"Heat and light are not things in themselves, but different sensations in our bodies, or different effects in other bodies.
— from The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by Geo. W. (George Woodward) Warder

There were long-barrelled English hunters, all legs and neck; there were Kentucky racers, graceful, swift, and strong; and two Arabian steeds, which had been presented to his late majesty by the Sultan of Turkey.
— from Boyhood in Norway: Stories of Boy-Life in the Land of the Midnight Sun by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

Later, when Sister Denisa came back, Joyce was softly humming a lullaby, and Number Thirty-one, with a smile on her pitiful old face, was sleeping like a little child.
— from The Gate of the Giant Scissors by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

Dudley had always despised her a little, and now the fact that her husband excluded her from his suffering was testimony of her inadequacy.
— from Narcissus by Evelyn Scott