Where I have followed the G. T. in its reading " quant l'en a chevauchés six jornée tel che je vos ai contés, adunc treuve l'en une cité ," etc., Pauthier's text has " Et quant l'en a chevauchié les vi cités, si treuve l'en une cité qui a nom Sapurgan ," and to this that editor adheres.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

"Let us be happy," said the old lady, "and dart and spring about during the three hundred years that we have to live, which is really quite long enough; after that we can rest ourselves all the better.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

“Casting a shadow o'er hill and dale,” I repeated quietly, leading him up to the subject, “like—Come, now.”
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

[532] M. A. Lefèvre shows that the Roman Lares, so frequently compared to house-haunting fairies, are in reality quite like the Gaelic banshee; that originally they were nothing more than the unattached souls of the dead, akin to Manes; that time and custom made distinctions between them; that in the common language Lares and Manes had synonymous dwellings; and that, finally, the idea of death was little by little divorced from the worship of the Lares, so that they became guardians of the family and protectors of life.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

As I came to a halt before him, Tars Tarkas pointed over the incubator and said, "Sak." I saw that he wanted me to repeat my performance of yesterday for the edification of Lorquas Ptomel, and, as I must confess that my prowess gave me no little satisfaction, I responded quickly, leaping entirely over the parked chariots on the far side of the incubator.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

I remained quiet, looking over my lesson.
— from The Morgesons: A Novel by Elizabeth Stoddard

The Giddy Globe is really quite large, not to say obese.
— from This Giddy Globe by Oliver Herford

"How about it, Rainey?" quizzed Lund.
— from A Man to His Mate by Dunn, J. Allan, (Joseph Allan)

It can function independently, but because it's capacity is tiny, a neuron is really quite limited in what it can achieve alone.
— from Terminal Compromise by Winn Schwartau

'—C'est toujours, sous une forme absurde, la vieille idée romaine, que les destinées et l'existence de Rome sont liées aux destinées et à l'existence du monde.
— from Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare

The motion ceases the moment mouse or weasel reaches the turf, which is rarely quite level.
— from Wild Life in a Southern County by Richard Jefferies

If I remain quiet long without doing something fresh, I shall be lost: one idol quickly replaces another in this great Babylon.
— from My Memoirs, Vol. I, 1802 to 1821 by Alexandre Dumas

Throw away this solution and use some fresh water without potash and rather tepid; change it several times until it remains quite limpid.
— from American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype by S. D. (Samuel Dwight) Humphrey

At Tunbridge, some weeks after the publication of my History, I reluctantly quitted Lord and Lady Sheffield, and, with a young Swiss friend, M. Wilhelm. de Severy, whom I had introduced to the English world, I pursued the road of Dover and Lausanne.
— from Memoirs of My Life and Writings by Edward Gibbon