["The Jihia says that the name of Mei shan (Coal hill) was given to it from the stock of coal buried at its foot, as a provision in case of siege."
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

We are carried to these places in chairs (or sedans), which are here very cheap, a guinea a week, or a shilling per hour, and your chairmen serve you for porters to run on errands, as your gondoliers do at Venice.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

He was put in charge of some of the prisoners captured by Colonel Fitzgibbon, at the Beaver Dams, and when now nearing his destination, Kingston, with his prisoners in a large batteau, he, like the famous Dragoon who caught the Tartar, was made a prisoner of himself by the men whom he had in custody, and was adroitly rowed over by them to the United States shore, where being landed he was swiftly locked up in jail, and thence only delivered when peace was restored.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

The law pursuing its course of specification, as explained in the last Lecture, decides what is the tendency of representations in certain cases,—as, for instance, that a horse is sound at the time of making a [135] sale; or, in general, of any statement of fact which it is known the other party intends to rely on.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

In the river island of Athelney, With the river running past, In colours of such simple creed All things sprang at him, sun and weed,
— from The Ballad of the White Horse by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Ever wilder swells the tide of men; their infinite hum waxing ever louder, into imprecations, perhaps into crackle of stray musketry,—which latter, on walls nine feet thick, cannot do execution.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

But in the present imperfect condition of society, luxury, though it may proceed from vice or folly, seems to be the only means that can correct the unequal distribution of property.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

It is partly in consequence of such facts, that slaves, when inquired of as to their condition and the character of their masters, almost invariably say they are contented, and that their masters are kind.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

Some thirty captains were party to it who were to be put in command of some companies of German lansquenets (La Place, 33).
— from The Wars of Religion in France 1559-1576 The Huguenots, Catherine de Medici and Philip II by James Westfall Thompson

As it is the purpose of THE BROCHURE SERIES to cover as wide a field as possible in choice of subject matter for its illustrations, and at the same time hold rigidly to the idea of furnishing only what will be useful to its subscribers, it has seemed desirable to present something a little nearer our everyday life than the Italian work which has thus far formed the greater part of the plate matter.
— from The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Vol. 01, No. 10, October 1895. French Farmhouses. by Various

( Takes position in centre of stage; left hand against his breast, right hand pointing up. )
— from A Tender Attachment: A Farce by George M. (George Melville) Baker

Personally, I can only say that, on my father calling with me on Russell, he received us very cordially indeed (he had previously met my father, and had well known my uncle Frank), and that when we quitted Versailles, as I shall presently relate, he placed his courier and his private omnibus at our disposal, in after years one of my cousins, the late Montague Vizetelly, accompanied Russell to South America.
— from My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

What next occurred is graphically related by the governor, in his report to Secretary of War Davis, as follows:— I was occupied the remainder of the day and the next morning in establishing Craig’s agency in the neighborhood of Steptoe’s camp, and a little before noon, with some fifty friendly Nez Perces in charge of sub-agent Craig, I started with the train and Goff’s company for the Dalles.
— from The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume 2 (of 2) by Hazard Stevens

I could not pray; I could only shiver and moan, with hands clasped, and eyes of horror turned up to heaven.
— from Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

An old nurse sustained fracture of the vertex, with slight depression of the broken part, in consequence of some rubbish having fallen on her from a considerable height.
— from Elements of Surgery by Robert Liston

Such poetry from poetry cannot infect people, it can only simulate a work of art, and even that only to people of perverted æsthetic taste.
— from The Kingdom of God is Within You; What is Art? by Tolstoy, Leo, graf