The captain gave the prince a white cloth of the finest linen, a red cap, some strings of glass beads, and a gilded glass drinking cup.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

"The language, too, of these men has been adopted (purified indeed from what appear to be its real defects, from all lasting and rational causes of dislike or disgust) because such men hourly communicate with the best objects from which the best part of language is originally derived; and because, from their rank in society and the sameness and narrow circle of their intercourse, being less under the action of social vanity, they convey their feelings and notions in simple and unelaborated expressions."
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

He is by Birth a Monkey; but swings upon a Rope, takes a pipe of Tobacco, and drinks a Glass of Ale, like any reasonable Creature.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

A great number of these illustrations are collected in the elaborate edition of Ovid, published by the Abbé Banier, one of the most learned scholars of the last century; who has, therein, and in his “Explanations of the Fables of Antiquity,” with indefatigable labour and research, culled from the works of ancient authors, all such information as he considered likely to throw any light upon the Mythology and history of Greece and Rome.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

ith gilt poles on the carefully leveled and rolled croquet-ground.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

During the short period of his prosperity, he considered the rank of Cæsar as unworthy of the age and merit of Licinius, and rather chose to reserve for him the place of Constantius, and the empire of the West.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Simply messing," he went on dreamily: "messing—about—in—boats; messing—" "Look ahead, Rat!" cried the Mole suddenly.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

it now appears to me, something like a religious cross of the Ghost in Hamlet with Richard the Third,—and ended with the very proper aspiration that we might be truly grateful.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

He gave to the city of London a rich collar of gold to be worn by the mayor, which was first worn by Sir W. Laxton.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

He became later a royal censor, and King Tai-jong commended him, saying, “Well done, good and faithful servant.”
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

Finding the Jews ready to urge, at length, a religious charge, Pilate's superstitious fear was roused (John xix.
— from The Life of Jesus of Nazareth: A Study by Rush Rhees

In this region the people are very poor, but in a large and rich community this festivity would be kept with splendor even, and with much cost.
— from Wonder Stories of Travel by Ernest Ingersoll

"It seems like a regular cutting, and the air is pure."
— from Down the Slope by James Otis

Industrial production: growth rate 10.5% (1990) Electricity: capacity: 4,935,000 kW production: 14.385 billion kWh consumption per capita: 2,952 kWh (1992) Industries: petroleum, food processing, textiles, handicrafts, cement Agriculture: 5% of GNP; cash crops - wheat, barley, olives, dates, citrus fruits, peanuts; 75% of food is imported Economic aid: recipient: Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-87), $242 million note: no longer a recipient Currency: 1 Libyan dinar (LD) = 1,000 dirhams Exchange rates: Libyan dinars (LD) per US$1 - 0.3233 (January 1994), 0.3250 (1993), 0.3013 (1992), 0.2684 (1991), 0.2699 (1990), 0.2922 (1989)
— from The 1994 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

" "I'm sure it's easy to say left and right," commented Grace, who was eating a chocolate.
— from The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake; Or, The Stirring Cruise of the Motor Boat Gem by Laura Lee Hope

He is a quarrelsome fellow, according to Beaumont and Fletcher:— “And then he’ll rail like a rude costermonger, That schoolboys had cozened of his apple, As loud and senseless.”
— from A History of the Cries of London, Ancient and Modern by Charles Hindley

From 1892-1896 pupil of Laurens and Raphael Collin in Paris, where her works were hung on the line at the New Gallery, Champ de Mars.
— from Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. by Clara Erskine Clement Waters

And now he feels chagrin at something like a reproach conveyed by that expression in Crozier’s letter, “The versatile individuals who claim your acquaintance.”
— from The Flag of Distress: A Story of the South Sea by Mayne Reid