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LI.—OF THOSE WHO DID REIGN AFTER CHINGHIS KAAN, AND OF THE CUSTOMS OF THE TARTARS NOTES.—1.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa
OF THOSE WHO DID REIGN AFTER CHINGHIS KAAN, AND OF THE CUSTOMS OF THE TARTARS.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa
That it was affirmed that the great Hendrick Hudson, the first discoverer of the river and country, kept a kind of vigil there every twenty years, with his crew of the Half-moon; being permitted in this way to revisit the scenes of his enterprise, and keep a guardian eye upon the river and the great city called by his name.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving
“I be,” promptly answered a short man, with a nose resembling a copper knob, a damp voice, and eyes like button-holes.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
Even at present the descendants of that race are called kings, and receive certain honours, as the chief seat at the public games, a purple robe as a symbol of royal descent, a staff instead of a sceptre, and the superintendence of the sacrifices in honour of the Eleusinian Ceres.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo
Jules Favre took a pen and wrote,—"The undersigned Representatives authorize Citizen King and his friends to defend with them, and with arms in their hands, Universal Suffrage, the Republic, the Laws."
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo
Which race of men Friedrich Wilhelm does not love; and now less than ever, gloomily suspicious they may be come on parricide Fritz's score,—you Rochow and Company keep an eye!
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 07 by Thomas Carlyle
A news reporter and Captain King, and I don't know where this other one was.
— from Warren Commission (12 of 26): Hearings Vol. XII (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission
Dave Ogden, with a calculating glance at the batsman, tied himself into rather a complicated knot and threw the horsehide.
— from The Rival Pitchers: A Story of College Baseball by Lester Chadwick
Rewrite the following extract from Irving's "Sketch Book," and change it to a direct quotation:— He assured the company that it was a fact, handed down from his ancestor the historian, that the Catskill Mountains had always been haunted by strange beings; that it was affirmed that the great Hendrick Hudson, the first discoverer of the river and country, kept a kind of vigil there every twenty years, with his crew of the Half-moon, being permitted in this way to revisit the scenes of his enterprise, and keep a guardian eye upon the river and the great city called by his name; that his father had once seen them in their old Dutch dresses playing at ninepins in a hollow of the mountain; and that he himself had heard, one summer afternoon, the sound of their balls, like distant peals of thunder.
— from An English Grammar by James Witt Sewell
The Japanese Dwarf returned to his poisoned rice and Captain Kidd apologized to his victim, who was frowning reproof at him, and the rehearsal proceeded haltingly.
— from The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories by B. M. Bower
The best bedroom in the prison, which had formerly been occupied by Lord Russell and Count Koningsmark, and more recently by Count Guiscard, was let to General Forster.
— from Preston Fight; or, The Insurrection of 1715 by William Harrison Ainsworth
So the Confederates were divided, ready to meet either adversary; Ewell remaining at Cross Keys, and the Stonewall division encamping near Port Republic.
— from Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War by G. F. R. (George Francis Robert) Henderson
Lyn could be just as haughty as she was sweet and gracious, which was natural enough, seeing she'd [Pg 57] ruled a cattle king and all his sunburned riders since she was big enough to toddle alone; and Gordon MacRae wasn't the sort of man who would come to heel at any woman's bidding—at least, he wasn't in the old days.
— from Raw Gold: A Novel by Bertrand W. Sinclair
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