["Marco Polo's apples of Paradise are more probably the fruits of the Konár tree.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

The best of his prose, which one may find in the descriptive passages of Præterita and Modern Painters , is written in a richly ornate style, with a wealth of figures and allusions, and at times a rhythmic, melodious quality which makes it almost equal to poetry.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Here a mighty company of citizens, ‘prentices, and others; and it makes me observe, that when I begun first to be able to bestow a play on myself, I do not remember that I saw so many by half of the ordinary ‘prentices and mean people in the pit at 2s.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

After dinner abroad with my wife to Hales’s to see only our pictures and Mrs. Pierce’s, which I do not think so fine as I might have expected it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

As it is required, in order to distend the superficial veins, D, B, F, that a band should be passed around the limb at some locality between them and the heart, so that they may yield a free flow of blood on puncture, a moderate pressure will be all that is needful for that end.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

In a word, it is difficult to form a just idea of the state of two individuals who enjoy all the range of physical and mental pleasures together, whose life is for the present without thought of the future; whose joys are mutual and continual; such, nevertheless, was the position of myself and my divine Pauline.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Well, we’re right up with the times—we have a laboratory!” The visitors and high officials, after being handsomely entertained, would then write in their Travels or Memoirs : “The Royal and Pontifical University of Santo Tomas of Manila, in charge of the enlightened Dominican Order, possesses a magnificent physical laboratory for the instruction of youth.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

As soon as dinner was over, and Tom had been questioned by such of his neighbours as were curious as to his birth, parentage, education, and other like matters, East, who evidently enjoyed his new dignity of patron and mentor, proposed having a look at the close, which Tom, athirst for knowledge, gladly assented to; and they went out through the quadrangle and past the big fives court, into the great playground.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

Antaŭ multaj jaroj li estis soldato, kaj li ofte parolas al mi pri la bataloj kaj venkoj de tiu tempo.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

The package has now been taken down from the shelf in our presence and Mrs. Paine is opening it.
— from Warren Commission (09 of 26): Hearings Vol. IX (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

While he finds himself in a state of profound and most pleasing dependence upon the Author of his being, in the Holy of Holies of the inner sanctuary of his mind, one idea, the great over-shadowing idea of the human Intelligence, has been fully sanctified—the idea of duty , of moral obligation .
— from Doctrine of the Will by Asa Mahan

and I figure a man always ought to give other people as much pleasure as you can as long as it don't harm nobody.
— from The Real Dope by Ring Lardner

The People of the Five Nations are much given to Speech-making , ever the natural Consequence of a perfect Republican Government: Where no single Person has a Power to compel, the Arts of Persuasion alone must prevail.
— from The History of the Five Indian Nations of Canada Which are dependent on the Province of New-York, and are a barrier between the English and the French in that part of the world by Cadwallader Colden

[187] in Dr. Warburton's Inquiry into the Causes of Prodigies and Miracles (printed in 1727) affords a most notorious example of the bathos:— "Observe," says he (p. 60), "Sir Walter Raleigh's great manner of ending the first part of the History of the World : 'By this, which we have already set down, is seen the beginning and end of the three first monarchies of the world, whereof the founders and erectors thought that they never could have ended; that of Rome, which made the fourth, was also at this time almost at the highest.
— from Hogarth's Works, with life and anecdotal descriptions of his pictures. Volume 3 (of 3) by John Ireland

one perceives a manorial pigeon-house, against the skyline.
— from The Hardy Country: Literary landmarks of the Wessex Novels by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

There sat down at the table Mr. Snap, and the two Miss Snaps his daughters, Mr. Wild the elder, Mr. Wild the younger, the count, Mr. Bagshot, and a grave gentleman who had formerly had the honour of carrying arms in a regiment of foot, and who was now engaged in the office (perhaps a more profitable one) of assisting or following Mr. Snap in the execution of the laws of his country.
— from The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great by Henry Fielding

Enter Aline with large tea-pot ALEXIS Good: then, Mr. Wells, I shall feel obliged if you will at once pour as much philtre into this teapot as will suffice to affect the whole village.
— from The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Arthur Sullivan

There is no reason to despair of the ultimate arrival of the Fijians at some degree of physical and moral prosperity.
— from The Fijians: A Study of the Decay of Custom by Basil Thomson