The last page bore a MS. note in Latin to the effect that the volume had been read in the Chaldaean Desert by Georgius Strachanus, Milnensis, Scotus , who long remained unidentified, not to say mythical, in Yule's mind.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Here we used to remain until nearly time for slack-water again, when we weighed and made for home.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

And thus, if we proceed from the first rude, unfinished natures to the most superior and perfect ones, we shall inevitably come at last to the nature of the Gods.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

I sat up with Sir Henry in his rooms until nearly three o’clock in the morning, but no sound of any sort did we hear except the chiming clock upon the stairs.
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

the leathers of the head are long narrow and closely set, they rise upwright nearly to the extremity and then are bent back sudonly as iff curled.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

“That dead men rise up never!” That line stirred him with a profound feeling of gratitude.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

Arti kaáyu nga manulti ning buánga, mu rag unsay nakamauhan, The fool speaks in an affected way.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

" "Oh!" said Coggan, surprised; "what's going on to-night then, make so bold Mr. Oak?" It seemed rather ungenerous not to tell Coggan, under the circumstances, for Coggan had been true as steel all through the time of Gabriel's unhappiness about Bathsheba, and Gabriel said, "You can keep a secret, Coggan?" "You've proved me, and you know.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Among the many wild changes observable on familiar things which made this wild ride unreal, not the least was the seeming rarity of sleep.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

If God himself require us not to offer him our lives and health needlessly, as an acceptable sacrifice, nor ever maketh self-destruction our duty, no nor any thing that is not for man's own good; then we are not to believe without very clear proof that either prince or prelates have more power than ever God doth use himself.
— from A Christian Directory, Part 3: Christian Ecclesiastics by Richard Baxter

She had hardly realised until now that she was a prisoner, for the crafty Osten had conveyed to her the idea that she was going to Kronborg more for her own safety than as a captive.
— from A Queen of Tears, vol. 2 of 2 Caroline Matilda, Queen of Denmark and Norway and Princess of Great Britain and Ireland by W. H. (William Henry) Wilkins

I was not able to retire to rest until near three o’clock; my bed was most excellent, and I enjoyed [62] it still more from not expecting to find one.
— from Travels in Brazil by Henry Koster

So the Harvester left digging these roots until nearly the last, because he so disliked to disturb the bed.
— from The Harvester by Gene Stratton-Porter

A parasol pine, a eucalyptus, some olive or fig trees, white with dust, alone rise up near the road at infrequent intervals.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 2 by Émile Zola

Maj. Reno had left us a few days before on a scout, expecting 265 to rejoin us near the mouth of the Tongue River on June 17th.
— from Indian Fights and Fighters: The Soldier and the Sioux by Cyrus Townsend Brady

This is from "The Garden of Proserpine": "From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free; We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever, That dead men rise up never, That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea."
— from Memoirs of Life and Literature by W. H. (William Hurrell) Mallock

This was ungenerous, more particularly as he on the ground requested us not to make in our explanation any quotations from the "Rebecca papers;" also, not to make public the terms of reconciliation, and to unite with them in defending the honorable character of the adjustment.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

Our attorneys said that they would recommend us not to introduce any evidence at that trial.
— from History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Volume 3 by Smith, Joseph, Jr.