Another lake, 400 miles in circumference, Kara-boyön ( black isthmus ), lies, as is known, 27 miles to the south-west of Lob- nor.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

The innermost inclosed the Ta-nei , the middle inclosure, called Kung-ch'eng or Huang-ch'eng , answering to the wall surrounding the present prohibited city, and was about 6 li in circuit.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

The Dobuan mwasila is called Kasabwaybwayreta, and is ascribed to that hero.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

She had had a season in Dublin, and who knows how many in Cork, Killarney, and Mallow?
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

I had, therefore, asked to have an expedition ready to move from New Orleans against Mobile in case Kirby Smith should get across.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

I, at least, think it would be impossible to add much to what you have just told me.” “Impossible?” cried Keller, almost pityingly.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We have been enabled to present these facts, through the kindness of Mr. Charles Durand, who, in a valuable communication, further informs us that besides being among the earliest to engage in mercantile enterprises in Upper Canada, his father had also in 1805, a large interest in the extensive flour mills in Chippawa, known as the Bridgewater Mills: mills burnt by the retreating American army in 1812, at which period Mr. Durand, senior, was in the command of one of the flank companies of Militia, composed of the first settlers in the neighbourhood of the modern Hamilton: moreover he was the first who ever imported foxhounds into Upper Canada, a pack of which animals he caused to be sent out to him from England, being fond of the hunter's sport.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

This ideal rarely succeeded in youth, and towards thirty it took a form of modified insolence and offensive patronage; but about sixty it mellowed into courtesy, kindliness, and even deference to the young which had extraordinary charm both in women and in men.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

In that way only it seemed to me I could keep my hold on the redeeming facts of life.
— from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

This probably came by the ‘pagan’ route; but it meets its christian kith and kin in the following story which I find in a (MS.)
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

He prefers to stay with us, and we're going to take him home to his mother in Cedar Keys.
— from The Outdoor Chums on the Gulf; Or, Rescuing the Lost Balloonists by Quincy Allen

[LIEW Vui Keong]; Malaysian Chinese Association (Persatuan China Malaysia) or MCA [ONG Tee Keat]; Malaysian Indian Congress (Kongres India Malaysia) or MIC [S. Samy VELLU]
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

I have promised you life and honour; and, believe me, I can keep my word.
— from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson

Nothing but a true friendship, and a mutual interest, can keep up reciprocal love between the conjugal pair; and when that is wanting, and nothing but contempt and aversion remain to supply the place, matrimony becomes [258] a downright state of enmity and hostility: and what a miserable case he must be in, who has put himself and his whole power into the hands of his enemy, let those consider, who, while they are in their sober senses, abhor the thoughts of being betrayed into their ruin, by following the impulse of a blind unheeding passion.
— from Æsop's Fables, Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices. by Aesop

By that time I would be up to him and as he stooped over to inspect the machine I could knock him senseless, jump into the machine, and be over the lines before the Huns could make up their minds just what had happened.
— from Outwitting the Hun: My Escape from a German Prison Camp by Pat O'Brien

41 The material made from Ficus milk is commonly known as Assam rubber.
— from Rubber by Edith A. Browne

Maybe I can keep him back till you get on Satan."
— from The Untamed by Max Brand

Loch Laxford, which obtained its name from the salmon (Lax) in the river and at its mouth, is commonly known to the present day as one of the rivers in Scotland most abounding with that fish.
— from An Account of the Danes and Norwegians in England, Scotland, and Ireland by Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae

Mr. Asquith, then Prime Minister, who was prevented through indisposition from presiding at Professor Masaryk's inaugural lecture on October 19, 1915, sent the following message to the meeting: "I congratulate King's College on Professor Masaryk's appointment, and I can assure him that we welcome his advent to London both as a teacher--the influence of whose power and learning is felt throughout the Slav world--and as a man to whose personal qualities of candour, courage and strength we are all glad to pay a tribute.
— from Independent Bohemia An Account of the Czecho-Slovak Struggle for Liberty by Vladimir Nosek