Of the Royal Estate of Prester John.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

In the confusion of a defeat, the eye of Scanderbeg was fixed on the Reis Effendi or principal secretary: with the dagger at his breast, he extorted a firman or patent for the government of Albania; and the murder of the guiltless scribe and his train prevented the consequences of an immediate discovery.
— 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

He was a man of forty or fifty, tall and thin, with the restless eye of people who are worried by legitimate troubles and of hunted animals.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

But you are very much mistaken; I can assure you, niece, you will not meet with many such suitors as the Count: every other person would have turned upon his heel, and left you to repent at your leisure, long ago.' 'O that the Count had resembled every other person, then!' said Emily, with a heavy sigh.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

The Greeks presses of Aldus and the Italians were confined to the classics of a better age; and the first rude editions of Procopius, Agathias, Cedrenus, Zonaras, &c., were published by the learned diligence of the Germans.
— 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

I so very often see her eyes fixed on his face with a remarkable expression of pensive admiration.
— from Lady Susan by Jane Austen

Note 113 ( return ) [ Muller remarks ('Elements of Physiology,' Eng. tr. vol.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

Es evidente que a los bancos les conviene realizar esas operaciones, porque de ese modo colocan en el exterior los fondos que necesitan para las operaciones de cambio.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

We see this in the recent extension over parts of the United States of one species of swallow having caused the decrease of another species.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

But the most remarkable examples of progressive modification of the vertebral column, in correspondence with geological age, are those afforded by the Pycnodonts among fish, and the Labyrinthodonts among Amphibia.
— from Discourses: Biological & Geological Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

But certain it is that within a few minutes afterwards he said he thought he had a bottle of cider which I might prefer to the beverage then before us; and, although it was labelled cider, I discovered that the bottle contained something resembling excellent old "Pommery sec ."
— from The Mapleson Memoirs, 1848-1888, vol II by James Henry Mapleson

[ Rise, each one putting the fingers of one hand on the Bible in front of him; then they speak in unison except when their names are being read out ] I, Alexander Eklund; I, Emmanuel Wickberg; I, Carl Johan Sjöberg; I, Eric Otto Boman; I, Ärenfrid Söderberg; I, Olof Andersson of Wik; I, Carl Peter Andersson of Berga; I, Axel Wallin; I, Anders Eric Ruth; I, Swen Oscar Erlin; I, August Alexander Vass; I, Ludwig Östman; [ all at once, keeping time and speaking with low voices in a low pitch ] promise and swear by God and His Holy Gospel, that I will and shall, according to my best reason and conscience, judge rightly in all cases, no less for the poor than for the rich, and decide in accordance with the law of God and that of this country, as well as its legal statutes: [ in a higher pitch and with raised voices ] never tamper with the law or further any wrong, for the sake of either kinship by blood, kinship by marriage, friendship, envy, ill-will, or fear; nor for the sake of bribe or gift or any other cause, under any form whatsoever: and not make him responsible who has no guilt, or set him free who is guilty.
— from Plays by August Strindberg, First Series by August Strindberg

When tea was over, however, and the bridge had begun, her spirits rose; or rather, a new and strange excitement took possession of her that was not wholly due to the novel and revolutionary experience of playing, for money—and winning.
— from A Modern Chronicle — Complete by Winston Churchill

When speaking of Ireland to the electors of Tiverton, the new Foreign Secretary said, with a dignified and generous philosophy,—"Ireland must present itself to the mind of all men as a subject which required an enlarged, an enlightened view; the most anxious and sincere desire to do equal justice to all; which requires energy of purpose, firmness of spirit, and zealous co-operation on the part of those upon whose support the Government must found its existence."
— from The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines by O'Rourke, John, Canon

ILLUSTRATED BY R. EMMETT OWEN PUBLISHERS BARSE & CO. NEW YORK, N. Y. NEWARK, N. J. Copyright 1917 by Barse & Co. Bobby Blake on the School Nine Printed in the United States of America CONTENTS I Flying Snowballs II
— from Bobby Blake on the School Nine; Or, The Champions of the Monatook Lake League by Frank A. Warner

"I mean that poor old Eustace is so far below you, darling, that, with the most charitable intentions, one can only look on his asking you to marry him in the light of a record exhibition of pure nerve.
— from Three Men and a Maid by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

Rebel Expectations of Peace.
— from The Secret Service, the Field, the Dungeon, and the Escape by Albert D. (Albert Deane) Richardson