Many documents of the Middle Ages, referring expressly to this place Rubrouck, exist in the Library of St. Omer, and a detailed notice of them has been published by M. Edm.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Now, though it is not my present purpose to burden this subject of regional anatomy with any lengthy inquiry into the comparative meaning of the facts, why a common innominate trunk should occur on the right of the median line, while separate arterial trunks for the carotid and subclavian arteries should spring from the aorta on the left of this mid-line, thus making a remarkable exception to the rule of symmetry which characterizes all the arterial vessels elsewhere, still I cannot but regard this exceptional fact of asymmetry as in itself expressing a question by no means foreign to the interests of the practical.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

....of the well-horsed Hyperboreans—whom Earth the all-nourishing bare far off by the tumbling streams of deep-flowing Eridanus........of amber, feeding her wide-scattered offspring—and about the steep Fawn mountain and rugged Etna to the isle Ortygia and the people sprung from Laestrygon who was the son of wide-reigning Poseidon.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

In one of the American navy yards the Resolute was thoroughly overhauled, the defects repaired, all the equipments and stores replaced—even the officers' books, pictures, and miscellaneous articles returned exactly to the places they had occupied in the cabins.
— from Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 686 February 17, 1877 by Various

Mr. Albert Brisbane, of New York, was equally tall with Mr. Channing, but of a type of features that was ordinarily less pleasing; wearing a full beard closely trimmed, intellectual in forehead and face, with a voice one could hardly call musical; a rapid, earnest talker; the travelled son of a wealthy man, who had spent some years abroad and in France, where he became acquainted personally with Fourier and with his doctrines of association, which had deeply impressed him.
— from Brook Farm: Historic and Personal Memoirs by John Thomas Codman

They wouldn't be sending back for the drafted men and recruits except that they want 'em to help out.
— from Si Klegg, Book 4 Experiences of Si and Shorty on the Great Tullahoma Campaign by John McElroy

His parents appear to have been honest, simple folks, and made a real effort to train him for a commercial career.
— from The Wide World Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 127, October to March, 1909 by Various

Barabant, who wished to see everything at once, made a rapid excursion to the Tuileries, [Pg 19] to the Place de la Grève, the Place de la Revolution, the Markets, and the famous Hall of the Jacobins.
— from In the Name of Liberty: A Story of the Terror by Owen Johnson

It is almost needless to add that an eternal jealousy between militia and regulars existed; that the troops were wretchedly clad; that nothing was known of the country through which the march was to be made, and less than nothing of the foe that was to be met and conquered.
— from Military Roads of the Mississippi Basin by Archer Butler Hulbert

Wait not for horse and foot; tarry not the march of the mighty army; retreat even though they close upon you.
— from A Manual of Ancient History by M. E. (Mary Elsie) Thalheimer

T HE Overture to Robert is in two movements; the first an andante maestoso in C minor, meant as a prologue to the diablerie of the drama—a very much laboured composition, which does not make a return equal to the trouble bestowed on it.
— from The Harmonicon. Part the First by Various

Eunuchs, the vilest products of the most corrupted civilisation, soon make their loathly appearance in such courts, and add the element of morbid and rancorous effeminacy to the general ferment of corruption.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Kings by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

Since the events recorded in our last chapter, six years have rolled their swift, though noiseless round, ere we look in upon our friends again; six years bringing such changes as they must;—growth and development to the very young, a richer maturity, a riper experience to those who had already attained to adult life, and to the aged, increasing infirmities, reminding them that their race is nearly run; it may be so with others; it must be so with them.
— from Elsie's children by Martha Finley