The Itinerary of the Mirza from Badakhshan (Fáizabad) is the following: Zebak, Ishkashm, on the Panja, which may be considered the beginning of the Wakhán Valley, Panja Fort, in Wakhán, Raz Khan, Patur, near Lunghar (commencement of Pamir Steppe), Pamir Kul, or Barkút Yassin, 13,300 feet, Aktash, Sirikul Táshkurgán, Shukrab, Chichik Dawan, Akul, Kotul, Chahul Station (road to Yarkand)
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Men like the Cid, the knights of bygone years, Rode out the battle of the weak to wage, Protecting beauty and revering age.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

amore f. a kind of bird, yellow-hammer ?
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Yonder was Arthur, King of Britain; yonder was Guenever; yes, and whole tribes of little provincial kings and kinglets; and in the tented camp yonder, renowned knights from many lands; and likewise the selectest body known to chivalry, the Knights of the Table Round, the most illustrious in Christendom; and biggest fact of all, the very sun of their shining system was yonder couching his lance, the focal point of forty thousand adoring eyes; and all by myself, here was I laying for him.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

In the first place, as she began to like to be with him, she wanted to discover whether he was the kind of boy you could tell a secret to.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

And you—well you know, old boy, you were never a reproach to him, as the sight of me was!"
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

I have known of beautiful young wives who went to their husbands with the same assurance of confidence and trust as to their hopes and ambitions with which a child would approach its mother, only to meet with a brutal rebuff for even venturing to have an ambition which did not directly enhance the husband's comfort or convenience in his home.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Tell me what you think, or know, or believe you know.
— from Sons of the Morning by Eden Phillpotts

The hope was this: that some day if I keep on begging you, and showing my deep respect and regard, you will not turn me away.
— from Pole Baker: A Novel by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

We are informed that the kan (or beautiful) yuen approaches ( tsih ) with vapor ( hi hwo ) and bathes ( yuh ) the sun's place ( ji chi su ).
— from Ancient Chinese account of the Grand Canyon, or course of the Colorado by Alexander McAllan

I see, I heare, and feele a kinde of blisse, Yet find no forme at all: Other in their desire, finde blessednesse, But I have none, nor thinke I ever shall.
— from The Decameron (Day 6 to Day 10) Containing an hundred pleasant Novels by Giovanni Boccaccio

And now, here we are at Peace Castle in truth, And there stands its Chatelaine, sweet Sister Ruth, To welcome you, Roger; you'll find a new type In this old-fashioned girl, who in years scarcely ripe, And as childish in heart as she is in her looks, And without worldly learning or knowledge of books, Yet in housewifely wisdom is wise as a sage.
— from Three Women by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I would rather know we were compassed by fiends, and be ever waging war with them in darkness, than know, or believe you false to me; that would be my moral death, and make me the most reckless man on earth!
— from Miles Tremenhere: A Novel. Vol. 2 of 2 by Annette Marie Maillard

‘Oh no, not that I know of; but you know, Mr. Jim, a woman in such a humble position as mine, with so many people to please, has but an uncertain tenure.
— from Lady William by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

You never knew, but that’s the kind of boy your son George was, and that’s the kind of wife he had.
— from Northern Lights, Complete by Gilbert Parker

Ef she keep on blackguardin’ yo’, I’se gwine ter kill her!
— from Goat Alley: A Tragedy of Negro Life by Ernest Howard Culbertson