Sunt in eo Judaei plurimi inclusi, et illud in latere Orientali et Boreali ," etc.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

—A receptacle in which to burn offerings of sweet woods and gums; it is made of a stick of bamboo about three feet long, one end being split and opened out to receive the charcoal; it is stuck in the ground near races and heaps of tin sand.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Horses are by the father bequeathed as part of his household and family, horses are conveyed amongst the rights of succession, and as such the son receives them; but not the eldest son, like other effects, by priority of birth, but he who continues to be signal in boldness and superior in war.
— from Tacitus on Germany by Cornelius Tacitus

But the term, conception of reason, or rational conception, itself indicates that it does not confine itself within the limits of experience, because its object-matter is a cognition, of which every empirical cognition is but a part—nay, the whole of possible experience may be itself but a part of it—a cognition to which no actual experience ever fully attains, although it does always pertain to it.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

He commenced a Digest of the Laws of England , but he soon discontinued it, because it was “a work of assistance, and that which he could not master by his own forces and pen.”
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

p. 26) Frontispiece “The Suo queen went to the door with a handful of rice” 1 “The prince revived, and, walking about, saw a human figure near the gate” 9 “She took up the jewel in her hand, left the palace, and successfully reached the upper world” 22 “He rushed out of his hiding-place and killed the serpent” 43 “Instead of sweetmeats about a score of demons” 56 “At the door of which stood a lady of exquisite beauty” 62 “In a trice she woke up, sat up in her bed, and eyeing the stranger, inquired who he was” 77 The Girl of the Wall-Almirah 90 “On a sudden an elephant gorgeously caparisoned shot across his path” 95 “They then set out on their journey” 106 “A monstrous bird comes out apparently from the palace” 117 “Hundreds of peacocks of gorgeous plumes came to the embankments to eat the khai ” 123 “‘You would adorn the palace of the mightiest sovereign’” [ xiv ] 138 “He saw a beautiful woman coming out of the palace” 141 “‘Husband, take up all this large quantity of gold and these precious stones’” 145 “They ran away in great fear, leaving behind them the money and jewels” 162 “The camel-driver alighted, tied the camel to a tree on the spot, and began smoking” 170 “‘How is it that you have returned so soon?’”
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

The word found its way into the languages of Europe both from the Turkish and from the Arabic.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

And whē Cortes departed frō Zempoallan he had not one vassall of Mutezuma in his campe to leade them the way towarde Mexico , for al were fledde, seing the new league, or else by commaundement of their Lord, and the Indians of Zempoallan knew not well the way.
— from The pleasant historie of the conquest of the VVeast India, now called new Spayne atchieued by the vvorthy Prince Hernando Cortes, marques of the Valley of Huaxacac, most delectable to reade by Francisco López de Gómara

found upon the head or shoulder, sometimes at the side of the lamb or even behind him, while a nimbus in the shape of a disc of sunlight surrounds his head and points to the “light” nature of the lamb.
— from The Christ Myth by Arthur Drews

Sixthly , they numbered the verses , words , and letters of every Book, to prevent all possibility of corrupting the Text in future times; for now they say, the gift of Prophesie should cease.
— from Moses and Aaron: Civil and Ecclesiastical Rites, Used by the Ancient Hebrews by Thomas Goodwin

In the thirteenth century it may be said that _in theory_ the land of England belonged to the sovereign.
— from The Coming of the Friars by Augustus Jessopp

We did not fight in 1870, because neither France nor Germany had infringed the public law of Europe by attacking the neutrality of Belgium, but we were ready to fight if they did.
— from Why We Are at War (2nd Edition, revised) by University of Oxford. Faculty of Modern History

The Cerberus of Democracy was to start his three heads off on three different roads, by that process common in many of the lower animal organisms, known to zoölogists as "fission"; and monarchists were fain to augur that very little of either bite or bark would be thereafter native to his jaws.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

In this battle, or massacre, as it may well be called, sixty whites, including the commander, Colonel Rogers, were killed, a loss only equaled by that of the Blue Licks some time previous.
— from The Life and Times of Col. Daniel Boone, Hunter, Soldier, and Pioneer With Sketches of Simon Kenton, Lewis Wetzel, and Other Leaders in the Settlement of the West by Edward Sylvester Ellis

For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.
— from The Bible, King James version, Book 2: Exodus by Anonymous

This is probably {116} typical of the character and motif of the collecting until circa 1850, and Punch's quip (1842) that the ladies of England betrayed more anxiety to treasure up Queen's heads than King Henry VIII.
— from Chats on Postage Stamps by Frederick John Melville