And, when he had won the city, he burnt the temple and beat it down, and all the city, and took the Jews and did them to death—1,100,000; and the others he put in prison and sold them to servage,—thirty for one penny; for they said they bought Jesu for thirty pennies, and he made of them better cheap when he gave thirty for one penny.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

The French pinnule is properly a sight-vane at the end of a traversing bar.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

[414] The exact place corresponding with the Caspiæ Pylæ is probably a spot between Hark-a-Koh and Siah-Koh, about 6 parasangs from Rey, the name of the entrance of which is called Dereh.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

Although the light of almost four centuries has been focused on "The Prince," its problems are still debatable and interesting, because they are the eternal problems between the ruled and their rulers.
— from The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

Not to be too prolix; I persevered, and so did my nephew, in the esquire's interest, who was chose chiefly through his means; and so I lost my curacy, Well, sir, but do you think the esquire ever mentioned a word of the church?
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding

X. C. V. Goes With Her Mother to Brussels and From Thence to Venice, Where She Becomes a Great Lady—My Work-girls—Madame Baret—I Am Robbed, Put in Prison, and Set at Liberty Again—I Go to Holland—Helvetius’ “Esprit”—Piccolomini The day after my interview with M. de Sartine I waited on Madame du Rumain at an early hour.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

So, for example, when we clearly perceive that the content of our sensation of oil of peppermint is partly a sensation of taste and partly one of temperature."
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

If he steal aught the whilst this play is playing, And scape detecting, I will pay the theft. HAMLET.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

As I turned the promontory, I perceived a small neat town and a good harbour, which I entered, my heart bounding with joy at my unexpected escape.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“The Malay pawang , or medicine-man, is probably the inheritor of various remnants and traditions of the religion which preceded Muhammadanism, and in the olden time this class of persons derived a very fair revenue from the exercise of their profession, in propitiating and scaring those spirits who have to do with mines and miners; even now, although the Malay pawang may squeeze a hundred or perhaps two hundred dollars out of the Chinese towkay 226 who comes to mine for tin in Malaya, the money is not perhaps badly invested, for the Chinaman is no prospector, whereas a good Malay pawang has a wonderful ‘nose’ for tin, and it may be assumed that the Chinese towkay and, before his time, the Malay miner, would not pay a tax to the pawang unless they had some ground for believing that, by employing him and working under his advice, there would be more chance of success than if they worked only on their own responsibility.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

If in the foregoing chapters a grain of truth lies hidden which will help to elucidate the problem with which they deal, they will have served their purpose in pushing a step or two through the darkness which shrouds so many secrets of Nature.
— from Human Animals by Frank Hamel

Long as it was since the duchess had taken part in public affairs, she, too, had a word to say here.
— from Charles the Bold, Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 by Ruth Putnam

A hurry of hoofs in a village-street, A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark, And beneath from the pebbles, in passing, a spark Struck out by a steed that flies fearless and fleet: That was all!
— from Our Boys Entertaining Stories by Popular Authors by Various

In one corner of the passage I press a spring, and a little panel open.
— from The Seats of the Mighty, Complete by Gilbert Parker

His contemporaries jestingly called him Beta the Second, because he was said through the universality of his attainments to be "a second Plato" in philosophy, "a second Thales" in astronomy, and so on throughout the list.
— from A History of Science — Volume 1 by Edward Huntington Williams

The habits of the puma in Peru are similar to those of the same animal in Chile; any further description therefore becomes unnecessary.
— from Historical and descriptive narrative of twenty years' residence in South America (Vol 2 of 3) Containing travels in Arauco, Chile, Peru, and Colombia; with an account of the revolution, its rise, progress, and results by Stevenson, William Bennet, active 1803-1825

The moral sentiment in Europe at present is perhaps as subtle, belated, diverse, sensitive, and refined, as the "Science of Morals" belonging thereto is recent, initial, awkward, and coarse-fingered:—an interesting contrast, which sometimes becomes incarnate and obvious in the very person of a moralist.
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Several years later (1653-1654), Cromwell determined to put in practice a still more drastic policy.
— from The Leading Facts of English History by D. H. (David Henry) Montgomery

Its infectious humor, its coarse pleasantry, its proverbs and sayings so much wiser than the wisdom, and so much wittier than the wit of any single individual, made the name of Franklin a common household word from one end of Pennsylvania to another, and, when finally strained off into Father Abraham's speech, established his reputation as a kindly humorist and moral teacher throughout the world.
— from Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume 2 (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce