Near the capital coal is mined at Yuen-ming-yuen, and in a variety of isolated deposits among the hills in the direction of the Kalgan road, and in the district round Siuen-hwa-fu.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa
The chandelier gave little leaps, the crowd got their knuckles rapped, and I, the Moon, was present at the performance from beginning to end.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen
Duha ka ráwun ang ithandrid, The 800-meter run is two rounds of the track.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
Upon its virtue, King, rely, And in thy body reach the sky.”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki
And after knowing his fine wife I don't blame him a bit; though I've kept right along in the same old groove, and see more or less of adventure."
— from The Banner Boy Scouts; or, The Struggle for Leadership by George A. Warren
Then the Rains came, when no one could go into camp, and the Narkarra Road was washed away by the Kasun River, and in the cup-like pastures of Kashima the cattle waded knee-deep.
— from The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition by Rudyard Kipling
We were kindly received and in the morning were shown where the pickets were.
— from Reminiscences of a Prisoner of War and His Escape by Daniel Avery Langworthy
KING RICHARD Ay, if the devil tempt you to do good.
— from The Tragedy of King Richard III by William Shakespeare
Such habitats occur along the banks of the Kalamazoo River and its tributary the Battle Creek River in Calhoun County, Michigan.”
— from Life Histories of North American Wood Warblers, Part One and Part Two by Arthur Cleveland Bent
"Certainly, Mort, certainly," was the kindly reply; "and I think you ought to make a very apt pupil, too."
— from My Strange Rescue, and Other Stories of Sport and Adventure in Canada by J. Macdonald (James Macdonald) Oxley
Kmita remained alone in the room, and began to meditate over his position, which was not deserving of envy.
— from The Deluge: An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. Vol. 1 (of 2) by Henryk Sienkiewicz
One kind of goat-sucker kept repeating at intervals, throughout the night, a phrase similar to the Portuguese words, 'Joao corta pao,'—'John, cut wood;' a phrase which forms the Brazilian name of the bird.
— from Oregon and Eldorado; or, Romance of the Rivers by Thomas Bulfinch
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