When he was at school it was common among the boys to express incredulity by the phrase: "Oh, what a Marco Polo!"
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Another problem was presented, in which I was less interested, but the solution of which aroused my professional curiosity.
— from The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc

The valet went out with a mute promptitude which showed him accustomed to obey blindly and without reply.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

But as { 271} the facts are not the complements, so the knowledge of the one is not the knowledge of the other in anything but the few necessary elements of which all must partake in order to be together at all.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

The same element made a monk of Wittenberg, at the meeting of the Diet of Worms, a more powerful social force than the Emperor Charles the Fifth, and all the princes there assembled.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

He strolled aimlessly beyond a sort of ramshackle little granary on posts, and his eyes fell on the broken stakes of the palisade; and then—he says—at once, without any mental process as it were, without any stir of emotion, he set about his escape as if executing a plan matured for a month.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

So some offend in one extreme, but too many on the other, we are most part too forward, too solicitous, too ambitious, too impudent; we commonly complain deesse Maecenates , of want of encouragement, want of means, when as the true defect is in our own want of worth, our insufficiency: did Maecenas take notice of Horace or Virgil till they had shown themselves first? or had Bavius and Mevius any patrons?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

A more plebeian one will answer my purpose just as well, and the pleasure of knowing whose heart my old one beats against—well, I won't speak of that.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

The principal weapons were the bow and arrow, the latter being tipped with poisoned horn or with a metal point.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

It only appears if the will, having attained to a knowledge of its own real nature, receives from this a quieter , by means of which the motives are deprived of their effect, which belongs to the province of another kind of knowledge, the objects of which are merely phenomena.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

John Gomez the Wizard and Man-tiger—Lopez the Man-lion—Vermilion Marks rendered the Devil powerless—Sacrificing Children—Offerings to the Ganges—A Rajah offering himself as a Sacrifice—Preventatives against Disease—Various Superstitious Ceremonies—Sacrificing to the Gods of the Four Winds—How the Devil was kept away—King's Wives and Retainers going with the Dead Monarch into the other World—An eternal Succession of Worlds—Apes supposed to have Human Souls—Worshipping Demons—Drinking Blood—Prognosticating from the Cries of Beasts—Witchcraft and Magic—Singular Opinions and Customs—Watching Graves, and providing for the Dead—Foretelling Future Events at the New Moon—Method of discovering a False Swearer—Offerings to the Sea and Winds—Superstition in China—Chinese Genealogy and Worship—Opinion of their Gods and Goddesses—Sacrifices—Beggars—Magical Arts—False Worship—Comfort of the Dead provided for—Superstition in Japan—Fortune-telling—Idols—Gods and Goddesses—Five Hundred Children hatched from Eggs—Human Souls supposed to reside in Inferior Animals—Beasts held in great esteem—Statues of Witches and Magicians placed in Temples in Japan—Charms sold by Priests—Value of Charms—Fortunate and Unfortunate Days—A Fairy in the likeness of a Fox—A valuable Charm.
— from The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together with Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by James (Archaeologist) Grant

Mr. Nicholson , from the Committee of Ways and Means, presented a bill further to protect the commerce and seamen of the United States against the Barbary Powers.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 3 (of 16) by United States. Congress

The sheets are sewed in a little book, on which a marbled paper cover has been placed, probably by a later hand than Anna's.
— from Diary of Anna Green Winslow, a Boston School Girl of 1771 by Anna Green Winslow

At times the fishermen will contract to sell their catch, whatever it may be, at a certain price, in which case they are assured of some return for their labour; at other times they will dispose of the fish in the ordinary way, at market prices.
— from A Corner of Spain by Walter Wood

And a few others, women and men, poor and ragged, stood by Him.
— from The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago by Arthur Conan Doyle

I was so occupied with arranging my pantry that I forgot my manners.
— from The Canadian Photoplay title of The Land of Promise by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

I believe my brother had reasons for choosing the cold season for this laborious work, the exertion of which alone must put any man into a fever, if he were ever so strong.
— from The Story of the Herschels, a Family of Astronomers Sir William Herschel, Sir John Herschel, Caroline Herschel by Anonymous

In ten years, when you’re old enough to marry, she will be an old woman; and, my poor boy, don’t you see—though it’s a hard matter to see—that she’s a flirt, and does not care a pin for you or Quin either?’
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

He sat there looking down at them, wondering whether a man had ever stepped into office with as many pitfalls laid for him.
— from Lifted Masks; stories by Susan Glaspell

"[1] St. Epiphanius (end of 4th century) says India was formerly divided into nine kingdoms, viz., those of the (1) Alabastri , (2) Homeritae , (3) Azumiti , and Dulites , (4) Bugaei , (5) Taiani , (6) Isabeni , and so on, several of which are manifestly provinces subject to Abyssinia.[2] Roger Bacon speaks of the "Ethiopes de Nubiâ et ultimi illi qui vocantur Indi, propter approximationem ad Indiam ."
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Rustichello of Pisa