I know not if the spelling Kesciemur represents any peculiar Mongol pronunciation of the name.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

One asserts that the world was once deluged with water, and men with all animated beings were destroyed, except one family, together with various animals necessary to replenish the earth; that the Great Spirit before the floods came commanded them to embark in a big canoe, which after long sailing was drawn to this spot by a bevy of swans and rested there, and here the whole troop of animals was disembarked, leaving the impressions as they passed over the rock, which being softened by reason of long submersion kindly received and preserved them.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

After a long pause, he continued, with much solemn feeling in his look and tone— “I lived a life of folly for years, for I was respectably born and educated, and had seen something of the world, perhaps more than was good, before I left home for the woods; and from the teaching I had received from kind relatives and parents I should have known how to have conducted myself better.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

IX Kovrin received a professorship at the University.
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

You don’t know Rome and priestly justice.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Kids running around, pretending to be guerrillas and giving them the excuse to really crack down."
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

But my kind readers are, probably, less concerned about my opinions, than about that which more nearly touches my personal experience; albeit, my opinions have, in some sort, been formed by that experience.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

They are known, respectively, as Pushpakans, Brāhmanis, Tiyattunnis, [ 222 ] and Nattu Pattars, their social precedence being in this order.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

The king requested a prest of six thousand markes.
— from Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (3 of 6): England (7 of 9) Henrie the Seauenth, Sonne to Edmund Earle of Richmond, Which Edmund was Brother by the Moothers Side to Henrie the Sixt by Raphael Holinshed

Then a cup of tea makes a kindly refreshment and prevents heated throats from catching cold, and the boat has to be got ready, and the furniture of the feast stowed away.
— from Sketch-Book of the North by George Eyre-Todd

No sooner had the king entered the room than a cold shiver seemed to pass through him, and on Fouquet asking him the cause of it, the king replied, as pale as death: "I am sleepy, that is all."
— from The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Alexandre Dumas

He dropped the knife, recoiled a pace or so.
— from The Evil Guest by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

The Assistant Keeper read a paper "On Arabian Imitations of Athenian Coins," Midianitic, Himyaritic, and others, at a meeting of the Numismatic Society (November 21, 1878); and I did the same at the Royal Asiatic Society, December 16, 1878.
— from The Land of Midian (Revisited) — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

"Nay, nay," said they, "the lord will put in an innkeeper that will take all the profit alone: and we must be his poor fools to keep road and path in trim for him, and earn no thanks thereby."
— from The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim by Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen

Kamal remained at Panamik, footsore.
— from The Diary of a Hunter from the Punjab to the Karakorum Mountains by Augustus Henry Irby

Mr. W. J. Knowles read a paper "On the Classification of Arrowheads," recommending the use of the following terms: stemmed, indented, triangular, leaf-shaped, kite-shaped, and lozenge-shaped.
— from The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 by Various

This question has often been asked in parliamentary debate, and has never, to our knowledge, received a plausible answer.
— from Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 2 With a Memoir and Index by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

he cried on the threshold, but instantly began to run, for he saw through the gathering darkness a darker shape he knew, roaring and pawing at the door of his old quarters, and a boy standing between him and it, with marvellous courage in mortal danger.
— from A Rough Shaking by George MacDonald