They make the Mer Occeane into Mer Occident ; the wild asses ( asnes ) of the Kerman Desert into wild geese ( oes ); the escoillez of Bengal (ii. p. 115) into escoliers ; the giraffes of Africa into girofles , or cloves, etc., etc.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

The audience, of course, expressed enthusiasm and surprise.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Or, Clarus et Ethemon. Æneis.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

In connection with the plan of a campaign we shall hereafter examine more closely into the meaning of disarming a nation, but here we must at once draw a distinction between three things, which, as three general objects, comprise everything else within them.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

A pretty example and one of practical significance in making a direct mistake is the observation of an engineer at a preliminary hearing in a damage suit: "Some time ago I worked with several colleagues in the laboratory of a high school on a series of complicated elasticity experiments, a piece of work which we had undertaken voluntarily but which began to take more time than we had expected.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

“No, after dinner,” said the old count, evidently expecting much enjoyment from that reading.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

] Note 42 ( return ) [ Munimentum tutissimum et fabre politum, Abora (the Orientals aspirate Chaboras or Chabour) et Euphrates ambiunt flumina, velut spatium insulare fingentes.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Your smart society is as low and vulgar and uncomfortable for a balanced soul as a gin palace, no more and no less; there's no place or level of honour or fine living left in the world; so what's the good of climbing?" "'Ear, 'ear," said Sid.
— from Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

How can he who hath been fashioned of contrary elements ever enter or even approach this fire?
— from Gems of Divine Mysteries by Bahá'u'lláh

The taste of such exhibitions, of course, every English person will question; but we must remember the manners of the people among whom they are popular; and, if I may be allowed to hazard such an opinion, there is, in every one of these Boulevard mysteries, a kind of rude moral.
— from The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh; and the Irish Sketch Book by William Makepeace Thackeray

One can easily encourage the production of infusoria by constructing a small microscopic aquarium, in which one arranges the centre in a manner favourable to the development of the lowest organisms.
— from Popular Scientific Recreations in Natural Philosphy, Astronomy, Geology, Chemistry, etc., etc., etc. by Gaston Tissandier

I advise likewise, that no commodity whatsoever, of this nation's growth, should be sent to any other country except England, under the penalty of high treason; and that all the said commodities shall be sent in their natural state; the hides raw, the wool uncombed, the flax in the stub; excepting only fish, butter, tallow, and whatever else will be spoiled in the carriage.
— from The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish by Jonathan Swift

Of course everyone else sends up his tripod and his cauldron, but we hear nothing about any, either tripod or cauldron, from King Alcinous.
— from The Humour of Homer and Other Essays by Samuel Butler

Canada enjoys a substantial trade surplus with the US, which absorbs nearly 80% of Canadian exports each year.
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency