Though at least one respectable English edition has appeared since Marsden's,[2] the latter has continued to be the standard edition, and maintains not only its reputation but its market value.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

It is remarkable, however, that ladies of recent English extraction, under exactly the same circumstances, retain their good looks into middle life, and advancing years produce embonpoint , instead of angularity.
— from The Englishwoman in America by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

[86] See Romero de Castilla, Inventarios de los objetos recogidos en el Museo Arqueológico de la Comisión de Monumentos de Badajoz . Badajoz, 1896.
— from The Arts and Crafts of Older Spain, Volume 1 (of 3) by Leonard Williams

It was to be a brilliant Commem.; for an ex-Viceroy of India, a retired Ambassador, England's best General, and five or six foreign men of science and letters, of rather exceptional eminence, were coming to get their honorary degrees.
— from Lady Connie by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

The enemy, however, gave way on every side, and our loss would have been very trifling had the 79th charged straightforward; but unfortunately it followed the course the 49th had taken, thereby leaving our right entirely exposed.
— from The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock, K.B. Interspersed with notices of the celebrated Indian chief, Tecumseh, and comprising brief memoirs of Daniel De Lisle Brock, Esq., Lieutenant E.W. Tupper, R.N., and Colonel W. De Vic Tupper by Brock, Isaac, Sir

The sharp and apparently impossible contrasts, the magic illusions of color made it a land of remote enchantment, even to the most unimaginative.
— from The Black Pearl by Woodrow, Wilson, Mrs.

He has never in his life owned real estate enough to form the site for a hen-coop, nor timber sufficient to build it.
— from The History and Records of the Elephant Club by Edward F. (Edward Fitch) Underhill

ARETHUSA ARETHUSA ARETHUSA BY F. MARION CRAWFORD AUTHOR OF "SARACINESCA," "A LADY OF ROME," ETC., ETC.
— from Arethusa by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

On the opposite side of the lake, or rather estuary, embosomed in wood, rose the lofty turrets of Lochmarlie Castle; while here and there, perched on some mountain's brow, were to be seen the shepherd's lonely hut, and the heath-covered summer shealing.
— from Marriage by Susan Ferrier

[Pg 719] loans; overdrafts; loose and unbusinesslike methods of accounting; excessive borrowings by the banks; investment of the bank's funds in securities not authorized by law; charging of usurious rates of interest; unlawful loans on real estate; excessive loans to officers, clerks, and employés of the bank employing them; loans to a bank's officers or employés and others through "dummies"; loaning money, directly or indirectly, upon the bank's own stock; transaction of a brokerage or commission business by the bank's executive officers, the commissions thus collected being sometimes appropriated personally by the officers and sometimes going directly or indirectly to the bank; false statements of directors as to ownership of stock; false statements made by bank officers, such as including as cash or cash items memoranda of moneys due from one source or another which do not represent actual cash and can not be immediately converted into cash; and failure or refusal when so directed to charge off bad debts and other ascertained losses; delay on the part of directors in taking the oath of office.
— from Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips