Their country is very hot.[NOTE 1] Now let us proceed and speak of another country which is seven days' journey from this one towards the south-east, and the name of which is KESHIMUR.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Thus his whole year is distributed in the following manner: six months at his chief palace in the royal city of Cambaluc, to wit, September, October, November, December, January, February ; Then on the great hunting expedition towards the sea, March, April, May ; Then back to his palace at Cambaluc for three days ; Then off to the city of Chandu which he has built, and where the Cane Palace is, where he stays June, July, August ; Then back again to his capital city of Cambaluc.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

The sudden termination of Colonel Brandon's visit at the park, with his steadiness in concealing its cause, filled the mind, and raised the wonder of Mrs. Jennings for two or three days; she was a great wonderer, as every one must be who takes a very lively interest in all the comings and goings of all their acquaintance.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Nothing is more absurd or endless, than the common method of comparing eminent writers by an opposition of particular passages in them, and forming a judgment from thence of their merit upon the whole.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God; which keepeth truth forever; which executeth judgment for the oppressed; the Lord looseth the prisoners; the Lord openeth the eyes of the blind; the Lord raiseth them that are bowed down; the Lord loveth the righteous; the Lord relieveth the fatherless and the widow— but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down .
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

He says that their territory is ten days’ journey from that of the Atarantes.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

People became the more anxious to hear for themselves, and to judge for themselves, of the truth which I had to unfold.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

"In the face of this fact, is there not some justification for the opinion that the United States owe their very existence to the Jews?
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

If anybody is so foolish as to apply the Sermon on the Mount to present-day affairs, we regard him as a harmless crank; if he persists, and sets out to teach others, we call him a Communist or a Pacifist, and put him in jail for ten or twenty years.
— from The Book of Life by Upton Sinclair

Most of our horses used to go from Oran to Mascara in a single day, and could repeat the journey for two or three consecutive days.
— from The Horses of the Sahara and the Manners of the Desert by E.‏ (Eugène) Daumas

We see, in the last verse of this poem, that Hannah's thoughts in her hour of joy fix themselves on the glorious future of the coming King and Anointed One as the climax of her joy.
— from Woman in Sacred History A Series of Sketches Drawn from Scriptural, Historical, and Legendary Sources by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Those who would judge for themselves of the merits of our conclusions must see the building; but it is not necessary to go to Boston in order to realize that here we have a remarkably beautiful structure, and many of its features can be fully enjoyed and appreciated in photographic views.
— from The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Vol. 01, No. 11, November, 1895 The Country Houses of Normandy by Various

On this occasion, my jungle friend turned out the best cheer his small store afforded.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various

So far there is little to distinguish the marking of the Jaguar from that of the Leopard; we come now to the differences observable between them.
— from The Tower Menagerie Comprising the natural history of the animals contained in that establishment; with anecdotes of their characters and history. by Edward Turner Bennett

For the rest of the day the line of walkers plodded across the sand and in addition to helping Mikah, Jason found two of the krenoj , the edible roots.
— from The Ethical Engineer by Harry Harrison

An expedition was sent out from home, at the instance of Jules Ferry, to open the way by the Songkoi River for the trade of Yun-Nan, a south-western province of China.
— from Four Young Explorers; Or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics by Oliver Optic

Had she not a sweet secret to whisper in his ear that would make him love her better than ever, and would it be so very great a sin just for that once to kneel with him?
— from The Home at Greylock by E. (Elizabeth) Prentiss

Still in the shadow of the quarter-deck, the two slipped silently back, unseen, and when Harry Malcolm came hurrying from one side, and Jacob from the other, to see what had made the splash, there was no one there nor could any man answer their questions.
— from The Dark Frigate by Charles Boardman Hawes