C. Sanang Setzen several times mentions a city called Irghai , apparently in Tangut; but all we can gather as to his position is that it seems to have lain east of Kanchau.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

(After a pause), "I think I shall go to bed."
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

When a year has passed, I think I shall be able to tell you what the twelve passengers have brought to you, to me, and to all of us.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

I am so entirely convinced that the jury is pre-eminently a political institution that I still consider it in this light when it is applied in civil causes.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

The pattering increased till it sounded like sudden hail on the dry leaf-carpet spread around him.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

For if the Inchanters do it by their own power independent, there is some power that proceedeth not from God; which all men deny: and if they doe it by power given them, then is the work not from the immediate hand of God, but naturall, and consequently no Miracle.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

After some deliberation, the young master replied, “Nathan, in your place, I think I should feel very much so, myself.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Cherokee myth has a close parallel in the Iroquois story of the great mosquito, as published by the Tuscarora traditionist, Cusick, in 1825, and quoted by Schoolcraft, Indian Tribes, V , page 638: “About this time a great musqueto invaded the fort Onondaga; the musqueto was mischievous to the people, it flew about the fort with a long stinger, and sucked the blood of a number of lives; the warriors made several oppositions to expel the monster, but failed; the country was invaded until the Holder of the Heavens was pleased to visit the people; while he was visiting the king at the fort Onondaga, the musqueto made appearance as usual and flew about the fort, the Holder of the Heavens attacked the monster, it flew so rapidly that he could hardly keep in sight of it, but after a few days chase the monster began to fail, he chased on the borders of the great lakes towards the sun-setting, and round the great country, at last he overtook the monster and killed it near the salt lake Onondaga, and the blood became small musquetos.”
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

For whatever comes from him is good, and his pleasure is that it should be increased when we come amongst men worthy and fit to receive this celestial manna of honest literature.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

She did not want either in talents; and possessed, moreover, a particular turn for business, which she had acquired from her instructors, and had afterwards carried to greater perfection in the Italian school.
— from History of the Revolt of the Netherlands — Complete by Friedrich Schiller

On the pedestal is the inscription: "Sapientis Ægypti insculptas obelisco figuras Ab elephanto belluarum fortissimo gestari Quisquis hic vides, documentum intellige Robustæ mentis esse solidam sapientiam sustinere."
— from Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare

There is sure to be progress if the initial step has been taken.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Alexander Maclaren

We should not spread abroad patchwork ideas that in some vital points lack Science.
— from No and Yes by Mary Baker Eddy

The case of the sailor's body perfectly preserved in the icy soil of the South Shetland Islands (lat.
— from Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage Round the World of H.M.S. Beagle Under the Command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N. by Charles Darwin

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— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

The round lead seal which is frequently attached to one corner of the rug by a flexible wire or a string, especially among [Pg. 48] the larger pieces, is the importer's seal, on one side of which will be found his initials.
— from The Practical Book of Oriental Rugs by G. Griffin (George Griffin) Lewis

Le Doubs, part of the ancient Franche-Comté, is so Protestant, indeed, that in some towns and villages the Catholics are considerably in the minority, as is even the case still at Montbéliard.
— from Holidays in Eastern France by Matilda Betham-Edwards

Nevertheless it is the regular practice in the Italian service, with their small high ceilinged flying boats.
— from Airplane Photography by Herbert Eugene Ives