But as we have only a very loose knowledge of these rivers, it is impossible to assign the geographical position with accuracy.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Kvass is of various sorts: there is the common kvass of fermented rye used by the peasantry, and the more expensive kvass of the restaurants, iced and flavoured with various fruits.
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

saw a few small herds of the Bighorned anamals and two Elk only, of the last we killed one, the river is generally about 200 yds.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Kings of the Rhine in strongholds were by him Boldly attacked, and tyrant barons grim.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

Petyt, subsequent to his call to the Bar, in 1670, was for many years Keeper of the Records in the Tower of London.
— from The Choise of Valentines; Or the Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo by Thomas Nash

But it is very important to realize the use of principles of inference, if a correct theory of knowledge is to be obtained; for our knowledge of them raises interesting and difficult questions.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

Need the rank have been at all particularized, where nothing follows which the knowledge of that rank is to explain or illustrate?
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Of Asia the greater part was explored by Dareios, who desiring to know of the river Indus, which is a second river producing crocodiles of all the rivers in the world,—to know, I say, of this river where it runs out into the sea, sent with ships, besides others whom he trusted to speak the truth, Skylax also, a man of Caryanda.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

When a rice-field does not flourish, they suppose that the soul ( kelah ) of the rice is in some way detained from the rice.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

For the King of Terrors ruled in the sickening atmosphere of the deserted mansion house, and Leah feared only for herself now!
— from The Midnight Passenger : A Novel by Richard Savage

The alteration of the c and k of the root into the v was evidently the work of the digammate power, and hence we find the icus and ivus indifferently as finals in Latin.
— from Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

During the very thick of the fight light thin jets of smoke were seen to issue from the joints and crevices in the wooden walls of the huge barrack-like structure to windward of us, the jets rapidly growing in numbers and volume and being speedily succeeded by thin arrowy tongues of flame which shot into view for a moment, disappeared, and then appeared again, darting along the surface of the wood and uniting with others, until the entire building became completely enveloped in the flames, which no doubt the Spaniards had kindled on their retreat, in order to make assurance doubly sure, as it were, and in the event of their little scheme for the destruction of the battery miscarrying, to deprive us of what would have afforded us an excellent retreat in which to have withstood a siege.
— from The Congo Rovers: A Story of the Slave Squadron by Harry Collingwood

My good friend, the late Mr. John Howard Clark, Editor of The Register, kindly offered to read it.
— from An Autobiography by Catherine Helen Spence

Having entered the hermitage along with his disciple, that one knowing duty, while apparently engaged in diverse kinds of talk, revolved in his mind the circumstances connected with the verses.
— from The Rāmāyana, Volume One. Bālakāndam and Ayodhyākāndam by Valmiki

And the keeping of that rule is possible only in so far as we love others.
— from Practical Ethics by William De Witt Hyde

Take this key of the cupboard, and here is the key of the room itself; there is only one other key, and I have that.
— from The Weird Sisters: A Romance. Volume 1 (of 3) by Richard Dowling

We have learned from records and traditions, that it has been the custom in the past to hold the election of the king of the Romans in Frankfort, the coronation in Aachen, and the first diet in Nürnberg; therefore we decree that in the future these ceremonies shall be held in these places, unless there shall be some legitimate obstacle....
— from A Source Book for Mediæval History Selected Documents illustrating the History of Europe in the Middle Age by Oliver J. (Oliver Joseph) Thatcher

At the east end of the south aisle is a tablet to Thomas Astle, Esq., F.S.A., keeper of the records in the Tower, and who wrote on "The Origin and Progress of Writing."
— from All about Battersea by Henry S. Simmonds