The one here indicated, a lady of great beauty and ability, was known as the Great Khátún (or Lady) Bulughan, and was (according to strange Mongol custom) the wife successively of Abáka and of his son ARGHUN, the Argon of the text, Mongol sovereign of Persia.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Not necessarily that it should be this process or the mere feeling of this process, but that it should be in some close way related to this process; for it plays a part analogous to it in the psychic life, being a sort of junction at which sensory ideas terminate and from which motor ideas proceed, and forming a kind of link between the two.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Those who live in marble or on painted panel, know of life but a single exquisite instant, eternal indeed in its beauty, but limited to one note of passion or one mood of calm.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

In spite of diligent search the tree to which this kind of leaf belonged could not be found anywhere in the neighbourhood, but was eventually discovered in a Buddhist temple a long way off.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

How Sir Tristram was put to the keeping of La Beale Isoud first for to be healed of his wound.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

My cook was worthy of a place in the kitchen of Lucullus; but without detracting from his skill I must do justice to the products of the country.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

And not simply kicked out; long before that she'll begin nagging at you, scolding you, abusing you, as though you had not sacrificed your health for her, had not thrown away your youth and your soul for her benefit, but as though you had ruined her, beggared her, robbed her.
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Κοινωνικός, ή, όν, social; in N.T., ready to communicate in kind offices, liberal, beneficent, 1 Ti. 6.18.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

"Those of Greek and Latin are rather foolishly thrown away, I think, on a man like me, who, you are pleased to say, is 'the greatest ignoramus in nature': yet I must take the liberty to tell you, that wisdom does not consist in the mere knowledge of language, but of things.
— from The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. 2. (of 2) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England by Moncure Daniel Conway

No one feels pleasure, who does not at the same time give it Not tumble, but slide gently to the bottom of the hill of life Not to communicate, prematurely, one's hopes or one's fears Not only pure, but, like Caesar's wife, unsuspected Not make their want still worse by grieving and regretting them Not making use of any one capital letter Not to admire anything too much Not one minute of the day in which you do nothing at all Notes by which dances are now pricked down as well as tunes Nothing in courts is exactly as it appears to be Nothing much worth either desiring or fearing Nothing so precious as time, and so irrecoverable when lost Observe, without being thought an observer Often more necessary to conceal contempt than resentment Often necessary, not to manifest all one feels Often necessary to seem ignorant of what one knows Oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings
— from Widger's Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Works of Lord Chesterfield by Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of

In applying mathematics to the practical purposes of life, in recognizing its mighty utilities to commerce and civilization, Adam Warner was driven to conjoin with it, not only an extensive knowledge of languages, but many of the rudest tasks of the mechanist’s art; and chemistry was, in some of his researches, summoned to his aid.
— from The Last of the Barons — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

This fortress belonged to Dermod McMurrough, King of Leinster; but the present remains are rather of later date; perhaps the work of the Pembroke family in the 13th century.
— from The Scientific Tourist through Ireland in which the traveller is directed to the principal objects of antiquity, art, science & the picturesque by Thomas Walford

Nothing is known of Lothan beyond the making of this sundial, so that the fixing of the date can only be by comparative reasoning.
— from The Evolution of an English Town by Gordon Home

" "I don't know the gentleman—never heard of him," said the major: for Vavasor had pronounced the name German-fashion, and none of the listeners recognized that of the king of liars; "but you are quite mistaken in the character of the man-eating tiger.
— from Weighed and Wanting by George MacDonald

Also a kind of long but narrow ship or galley in fashion of that ship.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

Dúgay na siyang nakaging, He kicked off (lit. became stiff) a long time ago.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

He’s sending a message of some kind over light beam.
— from Black Treasure Sandy Steele Adventures #1 by Robert Leckie

OLD BRICK MEETING-HOUSE On the 22d of February, 1770, an informer named Richardson, being pelted by a party of schoolboys, withdrew into his house, opened a window, and fired at random into the crowd, killing one little boy and severely wounding another.
— from The American Revolution by John Fiske