This was another name of the Isle of Naxos.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

1168 The modern Nizza of the Italians, or Nice of the French. 1169
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

The Catholic priest’s ritual, which prescribes that the ears and nostrils of the infant or neophyte, as the case may be, shall be touched with spittle, comes, in all probability from Mark, vii, 33, 34, viii, 23, and John, ix, 6, which, in turn are probably derived from a classical original.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

They were immediately noticed on the island of Negros, where at the present they are few and confined to the interior; and in the vicinity of Manila and in Batangas, where they are no longer found, they were mingling with the Tagálog population.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

His age was uncertain, his condition ambiguous; his accent even sounded a note of doubt upon the nationality of the individual, offering no clew.
— from Garrick's Pupil by Augustin Filon

This favoured, I should almost say ideal, bit of nature, at a few miles' distance from the thoughtless vulgar noise of the inhabitants of Naples, is [214] a thing commented on by all, but by no one reasonably explained.
— from Thoughts on Art and Autobiographical Memoirs of Giovanni Duprè by Giovanni Duprè

The youth who is wending his way up the slope leading to the Devil’s Punch Bowl takes no note of this illusion of nature.
— from The Land of Fire: A Tale of Adventure by Mayne Reid

In Norwich, meanwhile, it was thought that every means had not yet been exhausted, and to Spohr’s extreme surprise he suddenly received an enormous petition signed by a considerable number of the inhabitants of Norwich, beseeching the Prince in the interests of that city to allow Spohr to direct his oratorio there.
— from Louis Spohr's Autobiography Translated from the German by Louis Spohr

From obscure Indian reports from the channels called Chenos, the Indians there had been alarmed by news of the inroads of Na-do-was (Iroquois), and seeing some one on the shore, in a questionable plight, they fired and killed him.
— from Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

Those of the former which have been removed, were found to contain human bones, earthen vessels, and utensils composed of alloyed metal; which latter fact is worthy of particular notice, as none of the Indians of North America are acquainted with the art of alloying.
— from A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America by S. A. (Simon Ansley) Ferrall

The sound of distant firing has none of the interest of novelty; the shelling of an aeroplane, which would have filled you with excitement a short time ago, does not now even cause you to raise your eyes to watch; you are old in warfare, and blasé .
— from Mud and Khaki: Sketches from Flanders and France by Vernon Bartlett

But what might be done is to have a fleet and cross this gulf and disembark in the neighborhood of the Island of Negroes 300 and enter the country from there, crossing the mountain chains in search of the country from which the people at Tiguex came, or other peoples of the same sort.
— from The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542. Excerpted from the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-1893, Part 1. by George Parker Winship

The spurious imitations of præ-Raphaelite work represent the most minute leaves and other objects with sharp outlines, but with no variety of color, and with none of the concealment, none of the infinity of nature.
— from Arrows of the Chace, vol. 1/2 being a collection of scattered letters published chiefly in the daily newspapers 1840-1880 by John Ruskin