et les dix mille un Toman, et les por milier et por centenier et por desme ."
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

"I didn't know it myself until that evening last April, when we strolled down to the embankment before dinner."
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

This Humour shows itself in several Remarks that we may make upon the English Language.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

I asked. 'Send for Mr. Urmson, the eminent lawyer, at once,' said she, 'he is used to this kind of thing.
— from He by Walter Herries Pollock

To make up the exact list of our traveling gear—for the guidance of future travelers—add, that we carried a medicine and surgical chest with all apparatus necessary for wounds, fractures and blows; lint, scissors, lancets—in fact, a perfect collection of horrible looking instruments; a number of vials containing ammonia, alcohol, ether, Goulard water, aromatic vinegar, in fact, every possible and impossible drug—finally, all the materials for working the Ruhmkorff coil!
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

“You kin fight in the middle, under the electric light, an’ whichever way the bulls come in we kin sneak the other way.”
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

[Here Corporal Trim and my uncle Toby exchanged looks with each other.—Aye, Aye, Trim!
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

(Here Corporal Trim and my uncle Toby exchanged looks with each other.—Aye, Aye,
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

The sky was full of such flocks; the gallant American gentlemen who made up the Escadrille Lafayette went clouding with him, and Mr. Robert Lorraine, the excellent actor, and Mr. Vernon Castle, the amiable revolutionist of the dance, and many and many another eagle heart.
— from We Can't Have Everything: A Novel by Rupert Hughes

We should call it the Phoebus, for Aurora holds only the second place at best: the fun is driving over her almost; it is a more luminous, a more graceful, a more showy picture than the other, more universal too, exciting louder and oftener repeated praises; yet the other is so discriminated, so tasteful, so classical!
— from Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Hester Lynch Piozzi

His country’s flag, blooming into magnificence under the electric light, had, to-night, a smile for Harold, as he saw it the centre of saluting boys.
— from A Scout of To-day by Isabel Hornibrook

Some of the drugs which Moors use take even longer to destroy life, but it is only a matter of time.
— from In the Tail of the Peacock by Isabel Savory

After many unsuccessful trials elsewhere, Larry got a position as office boy on the New York Leader .
— from Larry Dexter's Great Search; Or, The Hunt for the Missing Millionaire by Howard Roger Garis

that if women were made members under the existing law they would not have the right to sit on Council.
— from The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton. Volume II by Barrington, Russell, Mrs.

That eternal future will show how the Lord had need of each of us in our varying character, and how all that made up this earthly life fitted us for "bearing about" the special manifestation of Jesus entrusted to us, in which no other could take our place.
— from Parables of the Christ-life by I. Lilias (Isabella Lilias) Trotter

When the people saw the girl they agreed that she was very fine and quite worthy of being the prince's wife, and begged the king to cancel the law he had made altogether, and the king agreed; and as the law had been made under the "Egbo" law, he sent for eight Egbos, [5] and told them that the order was cancelled throughout his kingdom, and that for the future no one would be killed who had a daughter more beautiful than the prince's wives, and gave the Egbos palm wine and money to remove the law, and [5] sent them away.
— from Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria, West Africa by Elphinstone Dayrell