Among the mountains on this promontory there is one which, as already noted, is by the natives of Anadyrskoi Ostrog called Serdze Kamen.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

The place was wretched enough, but there was no other for these people to sleep in; and, with somewhat more of delicacy than was usual among the inhabitants of this wild tract of country, she persisted in refusing to let the animals have the same BED-CHAMBER with her children.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

I won’t describe the crush in the vestibule over sorting out cloaks, shawls, and pelisses, the shrieks of the frightened women, the weeping of the young ladies.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

NOTE 1.—The first month of the year is still called by the Mongols Chaghan or Chaghan Sara , "the White" or the "White Month"; and the wearing of white clothing on this festive occasion must have been purely a Mongol custom.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

In 1885 he had publicly expressed his adherence to the collective and national economic programme advocated by James Fintan Lalor, John Fisher Murray, John Mitchel, J. F. X. O’Brien and others, the agrarian policy of Michael Davitt, the constitutional agitation of Charles Stewart Parnell (M. P. for Cork City), the programme of peace, retrenchment and reform of William Ewart Gladstone (M. P. for Midlothian, N. B.) and, in support of his political convictions, had climbed up into a secure position amid the ramifications of a tree on Northumberland road to see the entrance (2 February 1888) into the capital of a demonstrative torchlight procession of 20,000 torchbearers, divided into 120 trade corporations, bearing 2000 torches in escort of the marquess of Ripon and (honest) John Morley.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

By degrees, more or less perfect expressions were found for the fundamental principles of logic, such as the principles of contradiction, sufficient reason, excluded middle, the dictum de omni et nullo , as well as the special rules of the syllogism, as for example, ex meris particularibus aut negativis nihil sequitur, a rationato ad rationem non valet consequentia , and so on.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting, and if one could shut them up, when they become wearisome, as easily as one can shut up a book of which one has grown wearied, they would be perfect absolutely.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

They sailed the outer course southwards past Bergen, and met three ships of King Inge's fleet, which had been outsailed on the voyage from the east.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

The negro, who is plunged in this abyss of evils, scarcely feels his own calamitous situation.
— from American Institutions and Their Influence by Alexis de Tocqueville

Knew their thoughts —Mind reading is a frequent concept in Indian myth and occurs in more than one Cherokee story.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

"And you, of course, sent word back that he was to tell no one else," said Delcassé, with a smile.
— from The Destroyer: A Tale of International Intrigue by Burton Egbert Stevenson

If one could so write that the learned would approve, and the ignorant understand, his joy should be full.
— from What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul by Richard La Rue Swain

In another, a fricassee of chicken smelled temptingly good.
— from My Home in the Field of Honor by Frances Wilson Huard

[114] "Otros, como desesperados, juntando esteras, tascos, y otras cosas secas, que pudiesen arder, so metian entre sus mesmas llamas, y las avivaban, para que, ardiendo la carcel y la Audiencia, pereciesen todos los que estaban dentro."—Marmol, Rebelion de Granada, tom. i. p. 517.
— from History of the Reign of Philip the Second King of Spain, Vol. 3 And Biographical & Critical Miscellanies by William Hickling Prescott

There was a deep, irregular scar on the outside of the leg, while on the inside a knuckle-like protuberance of considerable size provided ample evidence of a badly shattered joint, long since healed.
— from Quill's Window by George Barr McCutcheon

Dom Pedro, duke of Coimbra, second son of João I and Philippa of Lancaster, then became regent, but ten years later the young king took the government into his own hands.
— from Willem Adriaan Van Der Stel, and Other Historical Sketches by George McCall Theal