ou ii'e fo. 'vocata moult grant,' & ou derrenier 'ilec dist il.' Couvert de cuir blanc, à deux fermouers de laton.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Notwithstanding that, Messer Nicolo Vitelli in our times has been seen to demolish two fortresses in Citta di Castello so that he might keep that state; Guido Ubaldo, Duke of Urbino, on returning to his dominion, whence he had been driven by Cesare Borgia, razed to the foundations all the fortresses in that province, and considered that without them it would be more difficult to lose it; the Bentivogli returning to Bologna came to a similar decision.
— from The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

In Consideration whereof, the said Captain General, and Commander in chief doth covenant and agree, to, and with, the said Roger Scot, to find and allow him Meat, Drink, Apparel and Lodging, according to the Custom of the Country.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

Satis terroris tumultusque in aciem mediam intulerant, cum duabus circa portis P. Valerius Flaccus et C. Aurelius in cornua hostium erupere. . . .
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

He bids us listen to his misery; we stop, and with dry and gaping lips he tells us how he dreams day and night of the brooks of clear water that in cool dewy channels gush down the green Casentine hills.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

While I was waiting for him to come out of his developing-room, I walked about trying to recognize the likenesses on his walls: girls in Commencement dresses, country brides and grooms holding hands, family groups of three generations.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

And whereas it is controverted, whether they can bewitch cattle to death, ride in the air upon a cowl-staff out of a chimney-top, transform themselves into cats, dogs, &c., translate bodies from place to place, meet in companies, and dance, as they do, or have carnal copulation with the devil, they ascribe all to this redundant melancholy, which domineers in them, to [1307] somniferous potions, and natural causes, the devil's policy.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Mr. Pott retorted not a word at this jocose insult, but deliberately folded up his copy of the Independent , flattened it carefully down, crushed it beneath his boot, spat upon it with great ceremony, and flung it into the fire.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

I cried, “do continue to hold it, you give me such pleasure!”
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

The great Touquedillon, master of the horse, had the charge of the ordnance, wherein were reckoned nine hundred and fourteen brazen pieces, in cannons, double cannons, basilisks, serpentines, culverins, bombards or murderers, falcons, bases or passevolins, spirols, and other sorts of great guns.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Beneath this illumination let us walk the course of life, and at its close devoutly commend our beloved country, the common parent of us all, to the Divine Benignity.
— from Thomas Jefferson, a Character Sketch by Edward Sylvester Ellis

Any man may acquire something by hiz application; but economy , the most difficult article in conducting domestic concerns, iz the womans province.
— from A Collection of Essays and Fugitiv Writings On Moral, Historical, Political, and Literary Subjects by Noah Webster

Let not any Japanese suppose that it contained disparaging criticism of his country or its religions.
— from Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

In 1819 he wrote his first tragedy, published the following year under the title “Il Conte di Carmagnola.”
— from Builders of United Italy by Rupert Sargent Holland

"You're welcome to the best I can do, Cap," replies the man of the wire, who knows Harry by sight, as most of the employees of the road do.
— from Miss Dividends: A Novel by Archibald Clavering Gunter

Village Ruin in Canyon De Chelly Around the corner from the last example, as it were (at the point marked 4 on the map), and at the mouth of a little canyon that opens out from the head of the cove, the ruin shown in plate XLVI occurs.
— from The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198 by Cosmos Mindeleff

I had drawn forth my roll with the laudable intention of chancing a two or perhaps a five, when I was met with the startling proposition that I "bet fifty each way, to win and for place," and this was followed by so convincing an array of figures, weights, times and distances, that a compromise of $20 to win, and a five-dollar bet for the boy, "who could n't leave the paddocks, but had been promised that the right thing would be done by him," seemed the least I could do, consistent with my dignity and self-respect.
— from Checkers: A Hard-luck Story by Henry Blossom

— Troubles excited in England.—Bull “In Cœna Domini,” &c. 243.
— 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

As Government Inspector I can do considerable, but I must learn the length and breadth of the evil before I am fit to attack it." Faith listened breathlessly to every word.
— from For Gold or Soul? The Story of a Great Department Store by Lurana Sheldon