Populi Janue cum omnibus existentibus in eisdem, de quibus conduxit Janue homines vivos carceratos VII cccc et Galeas XVIII, reliquas LXVI fecit cumburi in dicto Gulfo Veneciarum.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

A second well–polished stone removed a tasty ringdove leg from Conseil's hand, giving still greater relevance to his observation.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Of mottoes which have a punning character may be mentioned "Mon Dieu est ma roche," which is the motto of Roche, Lord Fermoy; "Cavendo tutus," which is the motto of Cavendish; "Forte scutum salus ducum," which is the motto of Fortescue; "Set on," which is the motto of Seton; "Da fydd" of Davies, and "Ver non semper viret," the well-known pun of the Vernons.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

I have a nice long black and red letter from Charles, but not communicating much that I did not know.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

“Well,” continued Mrs Fitzpatrick, “my husband at last returned; and, if I am thoroughly acquainted with my own thoughts, I hated him now more than ever; but I despised him rather less: for certainly nothing so much weakens our contempt, as an injury done to our pride or our vanity.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Diuretics, or medicines to procure urine, are prescribed by some in this kind, hot and cold: hot where the heat of the liver doth not forbid; cold where the heat of the liver is very great: [4377] amongst hot are parsley roots, lovage, fennel, &c.: cold, melon seeds, &c., with whey of goat's milk, which is the common conveyer.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The thatched roofs, like fur caps drawn over eyes, reach down over about a third of the low windows, whose coarse convex glasses have knots in the middle like the bottoms of bottles.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

On ILINK and RelayNet, look for CUISINE.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

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— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

As they were rather long for common use in the family, they were shortened into the easier forms of Sossy and Minthy, under which designation the babes began very soon to thrive mightily, turning bread and milk into the substance of little sinners at a great rate, and growing as if they were put out at compound interest.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

[475] AN HISTORICAL READING LIST FOR CHILDREN “Don’t stop (I say) to explain that Hebe was (for once) the legitimate daughter of Zeus and, as such, had the privilege to draw wine for the Gods.
— from The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon

We had reached Luxor from Cairo by the commonplace post boat.
— from An Autobiography by Elizabeth (Elizabeth Southerden Thompson) Butler

Very soon the little jackal came running along the bank of the river, looking for crabs.
— from Wonder Tales from Many Lands by Katharine Pyle

L'effrayant 18 juin revit; la fausse colline-monument s'efface, ce lion quelconque se dissipe, le champ de bataille reprend sa realite; des lignes d'infanterie ondulent dans la plaine, des galops furieux traversent l'horizon; le songeur effare voit l'eclair des sabres, l'etincelle des bayonnettes, le flamboiement des bombes, l'entre-croisement monstrueux des tonnerres; il entend, comme un rale au fond d'une tombe, la clameur vague de la bataille-fantome; ces ombres, ce sont les grenadiers; ces lueurs, ce sont les cuirassiers; . . .
— from Ponkapog Papers by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

He waited a moment without response, and answered, in a low tone of voice, his own question: "The man is at Johnson's Cross Roads: letters from Cambridge tell me so.
— from The Entailed Hat; Or, Patty Cannon's Times by George Alfred Townsend

Going down the Andes, Humboldt and his companions had an opportunity of admiring the remains of the Yega road, leading from Cusco to Assuay, and known as the Inca's road.
— from Celebrated Travels and Travellers, Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century by Jules Verne

There are two routes to choose from by which to reach Lisieux from Caudebec.
— from The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 979, October 1, 1898 by Various

A Memorandum of what he had to do at Turin, at the place where he expected to receive letters from Carbonini.
— from The True History of the State Prisoner, commonly called the Iron Mask Extracted from Documents in the French Archives by Dover, George Agar Ellis, Baron