It was in 1866 the seat of a district ruler under the Mír of Badakhshan, who was styled the Mír of Kishm, and is the modern counterpart of Marco's Quens or Count.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

And as she passed him, light, soothing, as softly murmured as the perfume of a flower, telling him what she had to say, every word of which he closely scanned, sorry to see them fly away so fast, he made involuntarily with his lips the motion of kissing, as it went by him, the harmonious, fleeting form.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

Does the author mean to make our kings as immortal in their personal as in their politic character?
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

So then it served not to my use, but rather to my perdition, since I went about to get so good a portion of my substance into my own keeping; and I kept not my strength for Thee, but wandered from Thee into a far country, to spend it upon harlotries.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

It is the magic of King Alfred in his appeal to his chiefs to do battle with the Danes, when all that he could hold out to them was the prospect of his own vision, This—that the sky grows darker yet
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

I long to be able to astonish the ignorant with my cabala, which I see requires a mixture of knowledge and imposition.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I was very sensible of this mark of kindness, and I wished to go and thank his serene highness before my departure, but my friendly fellow-countryman told me that I might put off doing so till I passed through Bonn on my way to Frankfort.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

No muzzles on man or kritter allowed in this club.
— from The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Josh Billings

If the reader will take up the map of Kentucky and Indiana, and, commencing at the mouth of Harrod’s Creek, which empties into the Ohio river eight miles above the city, will draw a line down to a point five miles below the mouth of Salt river, and another line thence southwardly for a distance of sixteen miles; and from this point draw a gradually decreasing arc back to the point of beginning, he will have enclosed a space of country, every foot of which is entirely level, is delightfully watered, abounds in building material of every description, and is equally as well suited to all purposes of building, as are the best lots now within the city limits.
— from The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 by Ben Casseday

Flinging himself into an easy chair, he said to me, “O Kate, as I passed by the doors of the flaming gin-palaces to-night I seemed to hear a voice sounding in my ears, ’Where can you go and find such heathen as these, and where is there so great a need for your labours?’
— from Catherine Booth — a Sketch by Mildred Duff

The English name for the fucus; the sea-weed used for the manufacture of kelp, and in some places artificially grown for that purpose.
— from The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by W. H. (William Henry) Smyth

66 —— fires, x. 120 sqq. —— Islanders, their modes of killing animals, iii. 247; their offerings of first-fruits, viii.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer

Here the beau monde of Karshi are in motion from two o'clock in the afternoon until an hour after sunset.
— from Travels in Central Asia Being the Account of a Journey from Teheran Across the Turkoman Desert on the Eastern Shore of the Caspian to Khiva, Bokhara, and Samarcand by Ármin Vámbéry

The new forms at first are only special modes of knowledge, and it is thus that a new Philosophy is produced: yet since it already is a wider kind of spirit, it is the inward birthplace of the spirit which will later arrive at actual form.
— from Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy: Volume 1 (of 3) by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel