It occurs as Taka in ancient Persian, and Cosmas Indicopleustes speaks of it as Tupha .
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

But all is fairer still by night: Each rock reflects a softer light, When the whole mount from foot to crest In robes of lambent flame is dressed; When from a million herbs a blaze Of their own luminous glory plays, And clothed in fire each deep ravine, Each pinnacle and crag is seen.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Thus amongst the negroes of Loango girls at puberty are confined in separate huts, and they may not touch the ground with any part of their bare body.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Even in his most grotesque creations, the reader never loses the sense of reality, of being present as an eyewitness of the most impossible events, so powerful and convincing is Swift's prose.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

This finished, let the bases of the columns be set in place, and constructed in such proportions that their height, including the plinth, may be half the thickness of a column, and their projection (called in Greek ἑκφορἁ) the same.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

From others than the master persecution also comes in such cases.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

Such is the final principle upon which repose all these primitive classifications where beings from every realm are placed and classified in social forms, exactly like men.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

And were it not for the corruption and vitiousness of degenerate men, there would be no need of any other; no necessity that men should separate from this great and natural community, and by positive agreements combine into smaller and divided associations.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

' Talking of a friend of ours associating with persons of very discordant principles and characters; I said he was a very universal man, quite a man of the world.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

One had there the small-pox; another, God’s token, or the plague-spot; a third, the crinckums; a fourth, the measles; a fifth, botches, pushes, and carbuncles; in short, he came off the least hurt who only lost his teeth by the bargain.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Centuries of suspicion and repression have taught them to arm themselves proof against confidence in strangers; but to those who become acquainted with them, as Mr. Groome professes to have done and George Borrow did, they present a character of simplicity and frankness.
— from Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, July 1899 Volume LV, No. 3, July 1899 by Various

These marched suddenly upon Punemalli and captured it, seized again the fortified temple of Conjeveram, and from this point threatened both Madras and Arcot.
— from With Clive in India; Or, The Beginnings of an Empire by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Stir in dates which have been pitted and cut into small pieces.
— from New Royal Cook Book by Royal Baking Powder Company

The breast which has been removed is laid upon a plate and cut into small pieces, which are eaten by all the members of the sect present; the girl in the tub is then raised upon an altar which stands near, and the whole congregation dance wildly round it, singing at the same time.
— from Religion & Sex: Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development by Chapman Cohen

Comedy, according to Tully, ought to be the mirror of life, the exemplar of manners, and picture of truth; whereas those that are represented in this age are mirrors of absurdity, exemplars of folly, and pictures of lewdness; for sure, nothing can be more absurd in a dramatic performance, than to see the person, who, in 90 the first scene of the first act, was produced a child in swaddling-clothes, appear a full-grown man with a beard in the second; or to represent an old man active and valiant, a young soldier cowardly, a footman eloquent, a page a counsellor, a king a porter, and a princess a scullion.
— from Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Her Majesty asked if I had noticed this lady with the clothes made out of "rice bags," and wasn't it rather unusual to be presented at Court in such a dress.
— from Two Years in the Forbidden City by Princess Der Ling

Bethune, with the bachelor's expediency, had recourse to a candle culled from a sconce, and produced a cheerful, if somewhat acrid flame, to greet his friend when he returned, black kettle in one hand, brown teapot in the other.
— from Rose of the World by Egerton Castle

And, to shew the difference of the two cases, palpably and clearly, I say, Fourthly, and lastly, That the Gospel, in permitting, or rather in commanding us to ask the prayers of each other, justifies this sort of intercession, and absolves it from the blame and guilt of idolatry.
— from The Works of Richard Hurd, Volume 5 (of 8) by Richard Hurd

How could it have been that at this very moment the prelates of the church, arriving from all points of the universe, should have come here in order to represent all peoples, and confer in security on the gravest interests, if they had found any prince whomsoever ruling in this land who had suspicions of their princes, or who was suspected by them on account of his hostility?
— from Pius IX. And His Time by Æneas MacDonell Dawson

[732:B] Francis Kinloch, of Kensington, South Carolina, meeting, in passing, with Eliza, only daughter of Mr. John Walker, who was also at Philadelphia attending congress, is said to have fallen in love with her at first sight, she having at the moment just come from her hair-dresser, and he afterwards married her: and Eliza, only daughter of that union, became the wife of the late Judge Hugh Nelson, United States Minister at Madrid.
— from History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Charles Campbell