( Sprenger, P. und R. Routen , p. 39 and Map; Anderson in J. A. S. B. XXII.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

The experiment, as one in the direction of temperance reform, would, therefore, be more valuable if the traffic were permitted under reasonable regulations than if it were stopped; because, while, in the former case, the effects in the direction of temperance would be clearly traceable to the more natural and healthy form of life, if the latter course were adopted it could only prove, what no one now denies, that it may be possible, by restrictive measures, to entirely keep away the traffic from one small area while intensifying the evils elsewhere.
— from Garden Cities of To-Morrow Being the Second Edition of "To-Morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform" by Howard, Ebenezer, Sir

Round the mat is a narrow ridge made of paddy (unhusked rice), rice, and flowers of the cocoanut and [ 64 ] areca palms.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

At a festival called Kathiru in honour of a village goddess in the Cochin State, the Pulayans (agrestic slaves) go in procession to the temple, and scatter packets of palm-leaves containing handfuls of paddy (unhusked rice) rolled up in straw among the crowds of spectators along the route.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

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— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Certainly during the period under review reticence and respectability were combined on [Pg 230] occasion with a remarkable freedom of comment, and the tragedy of "The Great Social Evil" was frankly admitted in Leech's famous picture.
— from Mr. Punch's History of Modern England, Vol. 1 (of 4).—1841-1857 by Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves

" These, if properly understood, resemble rather the old campanili of Italy, and suggest the work of Giotto.
— from Memoirs of Life and Literature by W. H. (William Hurrell) Mallock

234. (A) The closely joined particles usually receive regular 10 treatment, being followed, for instance, by enclitics.
— from Tagalog Texts with Grammatical Analysis by Leonard Bloomfield

[p309] But before we do so it may be worth while to inquire further into the position, under Roman rule, of the class of semi-servile tenants into which a free possessor of land descended when he made the surrender of his holding.
— from The English Village Community Examined in its Relations to the Manorial and Tribal Systems and to the Common or Open Field System of Husbandry; An Essay in Economic History (Reprinted from the Fourth Edition) by Frederic Seebohm

In a body Black Hawk and his British band with their women and children came pulling up Rock River in their canoes.
— from The Conquest: The True Story of Lewis and Clark by Eva Emery Dye

White sand pathways, run, between, the various fragments of the hotel; a hot stream, breathing curly vapour as it goes, meanders, about the grounds, captured here and there in deep wooden ponds, under rustic roofs, or hemmed in by walls and concealing trees, to make the most attractive of baths.
— from In the Strange South Seas by Beatrice Grimshaw

Keltic flints and pottery underlie Roman ruins; just beneath the soil, or still surviving above it, are remains of Roman magnificence; and on almost all the hill-tops still stand the broken strongholds of the robber nobles who maintained their nobility upon what they were lucky enough to be able to steal.
— from The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier

The inevitable logic of the theory of Mr. Stephen is that the established order of things in Palestine under Roman rule was right, and that it was the duty of the Roman governor to regard all attempts at innovation or revolution in religion or government as a breach of the peace which was to be promptly suppressed by vigorous measures.
— from The Trial of Jesus from a Lawyer's Standpoint, Vol. 2 (of 2) The Roman Trial by Walter M. (Walter Marion) Chandler