Along this road, every five lis , are to be found towers built with clay, and about 30 feet high, abandoned by the Chinese, who do not seem to have kept a remembrance of them in the country; this route seems to be a continuation of the Kan Suh Imperial highway.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Solve Klofe went southwards to Firdafylke (the Fjord district), which King Audbjorn ruled over, to ask him to help, and join his force to King Arnvid's and his own.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Walworth County forms one of the southern tier of counties in Wisconsin, being situated between Rock on the west and Kenosha and Racine on the east; to the north lies Jefferson County.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

As his vessels were sailing up and down the river, and skins were being filled with hay, and the whole bank appeared to be covered in one place with cavalry and in another with infantry, Porus was not allowed to keep at rest, or to bring his preparations together from all sides to any one point if he selected this as suitable for the defence of the passage.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

The character of Kutúzov and reflections on the unsatisfactory results of the battles at Krásnoe , by Bogdánovich.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Just think of that—a man’s own hand keeps a record of the deepest and fatalest secrets of his life, and is treacherously ready to expose him to any black-magic stranger that comes along.
— from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

And when Sir Bors and Sir Lavaine came back, she called them traitors to let him rise, or to know any rumour of the tournament.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

The insurgent of the Elysée thought that he had killed a Representative of the People, and boasted of it.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

To which we may add, that when men so instructed are grown up, and reflect on their own minds, they cannot find anything more ancient there than those opinions, which were taught them before their memory began to keep a register of their actions, or date the time when any new thing appeared to them; and therefore make no scruple to conclude, that those propositions of whose knowledge they can find in themselves no original, were certainly the impress of God and nature upon their minds, and not taught them by any one else.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

In 1624, he solicited of the King a remission of the sentence, to the end, says he, “that blot of ignominy may be removed from me and from my memory with posterity.”
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

With fluttering hands and pulses she instantly loosed from her panting bosom and her hips the garland of roses and leaves twined about the upper portion of her body, and swung it around her in graceful curves as she knelt and rose on the rope.
— from The Complete Short Works of Georg Ebers by Georg Ebers

The kings and rulers of the land profit by the transit of slave caravans through their dominions—the countries all derive gain from the inhuman barter—the intermediate clans have each their share in the traffic—the merchant on the sea-coast drives a most profitable trade—and the lazy Arab to whom the wretched beings are finally consigned, has existed too long in a state of utter indolence and inactivity, willingly to assist himself many of the ordinary laborious avocations of life.
— from The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis, Sir

Many of these have fallen into oblivion because he strove to keep them concealed, and also because there has been no one to keep a record of them.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume 31, 1640 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Diego Aduarte

"Don't you keep a record of the milk all your cows give?" asked Mr. Dow.
— from Hidden Treasure: The Story of a Chore Boy Who Made the Old Farm Pay by John Thomas Simpson

“While the Worthies are not in any sense part of the Sin-Offering, they are nevertheless connected with the cleansing from sin: their ashes (the knowledge and remembrance of their faithfulness unto death), mingled with the water of Truth, and applied with the purgative, cleansing hyssop, is valuable, purifying, sanctifying.” (T. 108.)
— from Studies in the Scriptures, Volume 7: The Finished Mystery by C. T. (Charles Taze) Russell

It keeps a record of this at the main office on a ticker of its own, and the information may be published in the society columns of the papers in the morning.
— from A Guest at the Ludlow, and Other Stories by Bill Nye

Wall Brinton, our captain, agreed to this and we made another start, although some of the boys opposed it and said we had as well be killed as run ourselves to death.
— from Recollections of a Pioneer by J. W. (J. Watt) Gibson

y e Prince of the Kings and Rulers of the earth 66 that in his name and feare you will Rule and Governe this people according to the righteous will of God’s Ministeringe Justice and Judgm t upon the workers of iniquity and Ministering due incurreagm t and Countenance to well doers protecting of people so farre as in you by the helpe of God lyeth from forren Annoyance and inward disturbance that they may live a quiett and peacable life in all godlyness and honesty.
— from Oaths of Allegiance in Colonial New England by Charles Evans