[Suhchau had been devastated and its inhabitants massacred by Chinghiz Khan in 1226.—H. C.] Suhchau is called by Rashiduddin, and by Shah Rukh's ambassadors, Sukchú , in exact correspondence with the reading we have adopted for the name of the city, whilst the Russian Envoy Boikoff, in the 17th century, calls it " Suktsey , where the rhubarb grows"; and Anthony Jenkinson, in Hakluyt, by a slight metathesis, Sowchick .
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

“... repeated Evelyn, bursting into tears.”
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

“... repeated Evelyn, bursting into tears.” “... replied the Earl, flipping the ash from his cigar.”
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

If the bowel were adherent to the neck of the sac, we might, when trying to reduce it by the taxis, produce visceral invagination; or while the stricture is in the neck of the sac, if we were to return this and its contents en masse (the "reduction en bloc") into the abdomen, it is obvious that the bowel would be still in a state of strangulation, though free of the internal ring or other opening in the inguinal wall.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

It is called “a Proposition of Relation” because its effect is to assert that a certain relationship exists between its Terms.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

The officers at first support this state of things with impatience, they grow excited, restless, exasperated, but in the end most of them make up their minds to it.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

I now discharge my promise, and complete my design, of writing the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, both in the West and the East.
— 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

"You will be good enough, Cardinal," he said to William of Pavia, "to take care that all the archbishops, bishops, and prelates whom we have admitted to the reception of the royal envoy be invited to the reunion.
— from Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. by Conrad von Bolanden

Then the great ball leaped again, and swept over the high glass roof, escaping by inches the spouting.
— from The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett

E DEN HALL, the seat of the chief of the famous border clan of Musgrave, is a large and handsome edifice, on the west bank of the river Eden, built in the taste which prevailed about the time of the Charles's.
— from Tales and Legends of the English Lakes by Wilson Armistead

His little round eyes, bright in the moonlight, twinkled viciously!
— from The Six River Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence; Or, The Lost Channel by Harry Gordon

They were very rare beasts, among the early Roman Emperors, but in the later Empire they were introduced into the Circus, but many centuries rolled on before we, in England, were favoured with a sight of this great animal.
— from Curious Creatures in Zoology by John Ashton

"It's all so utterly out of my line of things," he began, puffing out clouds of cigar smoke between his words, "and there's so little to tell with any real evidence behind it, that it's almost impossible to make a consecutive story for you.
— from Three John Silence Stories by Algernon Blackwood

"My stay depends entirely upon my lord," replied Edward; "but I think if he have no further commands I must retire to the abbey, for it is late."
— from Lord Montagu's Page: An Historical Romance by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

"I have no idea," responded Egan, "but I think it sounds well ."
— from Law and Laughter by D. Macleod (Donald Macleod) Malloch

A dense mass of willow bushes, by which the little hut was surrounded, completely shut out the view all round, except backward, in the direction of the prairie, so that Ravenshaw did not come in sight of the spot where the flood had already commenced its work of destruction until he had traversed a footpath for nearly a quarter of a mile.
— from The Red Man's Revenge: A Tale of The Red River Flood by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

"A few more days of absolute rest, and you'll be all right, eh, brother?" "I think so."
— from Story of Chester Lawrence Being the Completed Account of One who Played an Important Part in "Piney Ridge Cottage" by Nephi Anderson