Excellent horses, known as Turquans , are reared in their country, and also very valuable mules.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

"How did you know about that?" asked Ruby, in astonishment.
— from Harper's Round Table, December 31, 1895 by Various

The arbitrary restriction of western settlement by the Proclamation of 1763 did not stop the more adventurous but did hold back the mass of the population until near the time of the Revolution, when a few bands of settlers moved into Kentucky and Tennessee and rendered important but inconspicuous service in the fighting.
— from The Fathers of the Constitution: A Chronicle of the Establishment of the Union by Max Farrand

One fine day there arrived a great ship, out of which landed twelve counts and twelve knights, and they all rode into Constantine's courtyard; one of them, whose name was Lupolt, riding at their head.
— from Ekkehard: A Tale of the Tenth Century. Vol. 2 (of 2) by Joseph Victor von Scheffel

“Well, according to all that was goin’ on he oughter bin killed, and ’t any rate I made round that way—but if you’re going to talk to me like that I’ll jes’ shut up.
— from Tales from the Veld by Ernest Glanville

School instruction, slightly more advanced than in the country, is commonly utilised to sharpen industrial [339] competition, and to feed that sensational interest in sport and crime which absorbs the attention of the masses in their non-working hours; it seldom forms the foundation of an intellectual life in which knowledge and taste are reckoned in themselves desirable.
— from The Evolution of Modern Capitalism: A Study of Machine Production by J. A. (John Atkinson) Hobson

The report of the Finance Committee of the United States Senate, 52d Congress, on "Wholesale Prices, Wages, and Transportation," known as the "Aldrich Report," is doubtless the most accurate and complete examination of prices in this country from 1840 to 1892 that has ever been made.
— from Honest Money by Arthur Isaac Fonda

"Birth, death, the future, the sufferings and misdeeds of man in this life, and his hopes of a life to come; the littleness of us and our whole sphere of knowledge, and the awful relations in which we stand to a world of the supernatural—these, if any," says Masson, "are the permanent and inevitable objects of all human, as they were peculiarly of Wordsworth's, contemplation and solicitude."
— from Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 4. Naturalism in England by Georg Brandes

Cross beams are occasionally placed in the chimney, upon which they hang their kettles, and these are repeated, in proportion to the number of vessels they have to boil.
— from Travels in Kamtschatka, during the years 1787 and 1788, Volume 2 by Lesseps, Jean-Baptiste-Barthélemy, baron de

I have not been able to learn anything whatever about this people, nor, so far as I know, are there any reducciones in their territory.
— from The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Frederic H. Sawyer