7 Petis de la Croix, The History of Genghizcan the Great, First Emperor of the Antient Moguls and Tartars ..., London, 1722, p. 154.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

sít 2 n 1 set of dishes, furniture, mahjong, and the like.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Many of the nobles, who were not in favour, wished for a revolution, that they might obtain the ascendancy to which they thought themselves entitled; men of desperate fortunes desired it, in the hope of enriching themselves; knaves and intriguers sold themselves to the French to promote it; and a few enlightened men, and true lovers of their country, joined in the same cause, from the purest and noblest motives.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

Steele describes, as they pass, Ormond, Somers, Villars, who leads the horse of the dead queen, that 'heaves into big sighs when he would neigh' — the verse has in it crudity as well as warmth of youth — and then follow the funeral chariot, the jewelled mourners, and the ladies of the court, Their clouded beauties speak man's gaudy strife, The glittering miseries of human life.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed.
— from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare

The mild exhortations of the old man, and the lively conversation of the loved Felix, were not for me.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

SHE DID Had Emilia's story been much longer protracted, it is like the compassion had by the young ladies on the misfortunes of Madam Beritola would have brought them to tears; but, an end being now made thereof, it pleased the queen that Pamfilo should follow on with his story, and accordingly he, who was very obedient, began thus, "Uneath, charming ladies, is it for us to know that which is meet for us, for that, as may oftentimes have been seen, many, imagining that, were they but rich, they might avail to live without care and secure, have not only with prayers sought riches of God, but have diligently studied to acquire them, grudging no toil and no peril in the quest, and who,—whereas, before they became enriched, they loved their lives,—once having gotten their desire, have found folk to slay them, for greed of so ample an inheritance.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

“And you have lived in this world hard upon one hundred years, cook, and don’t know yet how to cook a whale-steak?” rapidly bolting another mouthful at the last word, so that morsel seemed a continuation of the question.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

On the Council we are three men against three, like the Romans who held the bridge.
— from The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

This move was tardy and useless, for it is four long marches from Talavera to Plasencia, so that Bassecourt must arrive too late to hold the defiles.
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 2, Jan.-Sep. 1809 From the Battle of Corunna to the End of the Talavera Campaign by Charles Oman

Meantime you go across the State line into Mississippi, and take lodgings near Horn Lake, on the line of the Mississippi and Tennessee railroad.
— from The White Rose of Memphis by William C. (Clark) Falkner

Now these animals are sacred to the god Mars; and the Latins have a peculiar reverence and worship for the woodpecker.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

" They are usually sparingly marked with rather obscure spots, irregularly distributed, but generally mostly around the larger end, in darker shades of similar colors, such as "buffy olive," "light brownish olive," "buffy brown," "bister," or "sepia."
— from Life Histories of North American Shore Birds, Part 1 (of 2) by Arthur Cleveland Bent

In the uppermost 4,500 feet of this mountain above the limit of trees, Von Buch found only eleven species of plants, eight of which were peculiar; but the whole were allied to those found at lower elevations.
— from The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Volume 1 With a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surface by Alfred Russel Wallace

We shall have other work on hand then, and shall, I hope, be able to buy what we want; at any rate, we shall have as good a chance of doing so as others, while along this road there is nothing to be had for love or money, and the peasants would no doubt be glad to sell us anything they have, but they are living on black bread themselves; and, indeed, the greater part have moved away to less-frequented places.
— from With Moore at Corunna by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Our tutors that evening held a consultation on board the brig, and decided that it was their duty to go over the next morning to inform the commander of the coast guard of the discovery Harry and I had made, and to let him take the steps which he might consider necessary.
— from Captain Mugford: Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors by William Henry Giles Kingston

yet again I turned to my birthplace, the birthplace of morn, And the light of those lands where the great sun is born!
— from Lucile by Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, Earl of

"After all his bragging and boasting, you would have imagined it a baronial castle at least, and his mother a titled lady."
— from The World Before Them: A Novel. Volume 2 (of 3) by Susanna Moodie