Pegolotti having carried his merchant from Tana (Azov) to Gittarchan (Astrakhan), takes him one day by river to Sara, and from Sara to Saracanco , also by river, eight days more.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

"Chance and reasoning, sir; and by reasoning even more than by chance.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

In the United States the De Forest and Fessenden systems are being rapidly extended to embrace the most out-of-the-way districts.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

In these they have announced 1600 stars, as being remarkable either for their effects or their appearance; for example, in the tail of the Bull there are seven stars, which are named Vergiliæ 335 ; in his forehead 69 are the Suculæ; there is also Bootes, which follows the seven northern stars 336 .
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

Depend upon it, Marilla, she’ll cool off in a week or so and be ready enough to go back of her own accord, that’s what, while, if you were to make her go back right off, dear knows what freak or tantrum she’d take next and make more trouble than ever.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

The Texans, standing in the steps that they had cut in the earth, were in sober attire, but resolute eyes looked out from under their caps or the wide brims of their hats.
— from The Texan Star: The Story of a Great Fight for Liberty by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

Other terms for letter, such as "book," "roll," explain themselves.
— from The Book of Delight and Other Papers by Israel Abrahams

But with growing experience the world becomes more assured that the simplest and broadest religion ever preached upon this earth is also the best and the truest, and that in maintaining Christianity as at first preached, and applying it in every needed direction, lies the hope of the future of mankind.
— from History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems by Allan Menzies

His degrees are sensation, sensation accompanied by representative elements, perception accompanied by more complex elements of representation, then emotion, and that state of consciousness which surpasses sensations and perceptions.
— from Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Benedetto Croce

It skairs me most to death to see a boy ride 'em; and at your age, and with your rheumatiz, you'd get throwed, and get your neck broke, the first day.”
— from Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician by Marietta Holley

"He stood there as calmly as in church," Marie interpolated, though she knew that the widower never went there, "with a cool smile playing about his lips—it was a beautiful sight;" and Barbara regretted exceedingly that her dress had detained her so long that she had missed it.
— from Barbara in Brittany by E. A. Gillie

It was the beginning of one of the foggiest months in the year that Hannibal Perkins, hat in hand, somewhat abashed, but resolute, entered the office of the mayor of the city.
— from The Cassowary; What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains by Stanley Waterloo