BOOK SECOND. (1.) ACCOUNT OF THE GREAT KAAN CUBLAY; OF HIS PALACES AND CAPITAL; HIS COURT, GOVERNMENT, AND SPORTS. (2.) CITIES AND PROVINCES VISITED BY THE TRAVELLER ON ONE JOURNEY WESTWARD FROM THE CAPITAL TO THE FRONTIERS OF MIEN IN THE DIRECTION OF INDIA.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

The Philippines a Century Hence [ Contents ] [ Contents ] A plant I am, that scarcely grown, Was torn from out its Eastern bed, Where all around perfume is shed, And life but as a dream is known; The land that I can call my own, By me forgotten ne’er to be, Where trilling birds their song taught me, And cascades with their ceaseless roar, And all along the spreading shore The murmurs of the sounding sea.
— from The Philippines a Century Hence by José Rizal

Also the Boeuf Gras of a carnival in a succeeding year bore the name of Goriot. GORITZA (Princesse), a charming Hungarian, celebrated for her beauty, towards the end of Louis XV.'s reign, and to whom the youthful Chevalier de Valois became so attached that he came near fighting on her account with M. de Lauzun; nor could he ever speak of her without emotion.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

That being done, I got my Lord to be alone, and so I fell to acquaint him with W. Howe’s business, which he had before heard a little of from Captain Cocke, but made no great matter of it, but now he do, and resolves nothing less than to lay him by the heels, and seize on all he hath, saying that for this yeare or two he hath observed him so proud and conceited he could not endure him.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Hobbes has given us a correct explanation of the sense in general; but for particulars and circumstances he continually lops them, and often omits the most beautiful.
— from The Iliad by Homer

The Philippines A Century Hence [ Contents ]
— from The Philippines a Century Hence by José Rizal

The state must also possess a common Hellenic currency, but this is only to be used in defraying the expenses of expeditions, or of embassies, or while a man is on foreign travels; but in the latter case he must deliver up what is over, when he comes back, to the treasury in return for an equal amount of local currency, on pain of losing the sum in question; and he who does not inform against an offender is to be mulcted in a like sum.
— from Laws by Plato

And as Mrs. Hsüeh had by this date moved her quarters into a separate place on the northeast side, and taken up her abode in a secluded and quiet house, (madame Wang) had had repairs of a distinct character executed in the Pear Fragrance Court, and then issued directions that the instructor should train the young actresses in this place; and casting her choice upon all the women, who had, in days of old, received a training in singing, and who were now old matrons with white hair, she bade them have an eye over them and keep them in order.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

Hurstwood quit reading his paper and changed his clothes.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

The prioress alone can hold communication with strangers.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

God’s angels with joy to earth descend When hymns to His praise are chanted; His comfort and peace our Lord will lend To all who for peace have panted; The portals of heaven open stand; The Kingdom to us is granted.
— from Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark by J. C. (Jens Christian) Aaberg

So that by the end of September, 1914, Bertie was serving out cocoa and biscuits, writing paper and cigarettes, hot coffee and sausages and cups of bovril to exhausted or resting soldiers in the huts of the Y.M.C.A., near Ypres.
— from Mrs. Warren's Daughter: A Story of the Woman's Movement by Harry Johnston

With a rapid movement she placed both arms around him, as if to protect and conceal her child, and then drew herself up.
— from Riven Bonds. Vol. II. A Novel, in Two Volumes by E. Werner

He had first to deal with Pierre, and confronted him calmly, letting him speak, without showing any emotion.
— from Martin Guerre Celebrated Crimes by Alexandre Dumas

Under these favorable conditions, the organism will arouse itself to the purifying and constructive healing crises (the chemicalizations of Christian Science) and through these eliminate the morbid encumbrances and restore normal structure and functions.
— from Nature Cure: Philosophy & Practice Based on the Unity of Disease & Cure by Henry Lindlahr

She had a long, pale face somewhat worn and wrinkled, but possessing a certain harsh comeliness of feature which neither age nor wrinkles had quite destroyed; and her deep-set, light gray eyes were not devoid of suggested kindliness, although they now surveyed Eric with an unconcealed hostility.
— from Kilmeny of the Orchard by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

You get into this cart, the team is cleverly started by, it may be, a smart fellow, and driven away with the speed at which mails ought to travel; or it is wildly started by a conceited driver, who sets out with a plunge, and continues his course with a prolonged crash, as though the fate of empires reposed in his mail-bags.
— from Six Months at the Cape by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Hillebrand could speak only in the terms of the highest respect, of the form of my book, of its consummate taste, of its perfect tact in discriminating between persons and causes: he characterised it as the best polemical work in the German language,—the best performance in the art of polemics, which for [Pg 79] Germans is so dangerous and so strongly to be deprecated.
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Later on, I learned from witnesses—for whose testimony, be it said, I cannot vouch—that Tannhauser, when it was performed at Cassel, had caused him so much confusion and pain that he declared he could no longer follow me, and feared that I must be on the wrong road.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner