The works of writers such as Klaproth, Abel Rémusat, D'Avezac, Reinaud, Quatremère, Julien, I. J. Schmidt, Gildemeister, Ritter, Hammer-Purgstall, Erdmann, D'Ohsson, Defrémery, Elliot, Erskine, and many more, which throw light directly or incidentally on Marco Polo, have, for the most part, appeared since then.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Stealing a knife and returned, our Small Canoe which got Seperated in the fog this morning joined us this evening from a large Island Situated nearest the Lard Side below the high hills on that Side, the river being too wide to See either the form Shape or Size of the Islands on the Lard Side.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Cast on eleven stitches and knit a row plain, then begin the pattern.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

I held his hand, and then he screamed and kicked and ran to his father, and told him that I was fighting him.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The two spheres of sight and knowledge are represented by a line which is divided into two unequal parts.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Every minute a fresh gun came into position until, before twilight, every copse, every row of suburban villas on the hilly slopes about Kingston and Richmond, masked an expectant black muzzle.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

In a note to the passage Ezek. xliii. 2, "the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the East," Adam Clarke says, "All knowledge, all religion, and all arts and sciences, have travelled, according to the course of the sun , FROM EAST TO WEST!"
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

Also, you would have robbed the Treasury, since a kulak always remains a money-grubber.”
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

He, but a Duke, would have his son a king, And raise his issue like a loving sire: Thou, being a king, bless'd with a goodly son, Didst yield consent to disinherit him, Which argued thee a most unloving father.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

And so, as Joan de Tany was a spoiled child, they set out upon the road to London; the two girls with a dozen servants and knights; and Roger de Conde was of the party.
— from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Resplendent crystal forms the palace wall; The diamonds trembling lustre lights the hall: But where soft emeralds shed an umber'd light, Beside each coal-black courser sleeps a knight; A raven plume waves o'er each helmed crest, And black the mail, which binds each manly breast, Girt with broad faulchion, and with bugle green— Ah! could a mortal trust the fairy queen!
— from Shakspeare and His Times [Vol. 2 of 2] Including the Biography of the Poet; criticisms on his genius and writings; a new chronology of his plays; a disquisition on the on the object of his sonnets; and a history of the manners, customs, and amusements, superstitions, poetry, and elegant literature of his age by Nathan Drake

For the command implies not only a possibility of knowing it in general, but also of such a knowledge as respects their own immediate concernment therein, and personal benefit arising from a sense of their conformity and obedience thereunto.
— from A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 2 Taken from a View of the Education and Discipline, Social Manners, Civil and Political Economy, Religious Principles and Character, of the Society of Friends by Thomas Clarkson

The individual debts owed by Spenser to earlier writers have been collected with admirable learning and industry by scholars such as Kluge and Reissert[ 92 ], but the investigation of his originality presents at once a more interesting and more important field of inquiry.
— from Pastoral Poetry & Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by W. W. (Walter Wilson) Greg

Chance threw him on shore at Ki, a rock in Onega Bay; where he set up a cross, and promised to erect a chapel, if the virgin whom he served would help him to get rich.
— from Free Russia by William Hepworth Dixon

We slept at Kandersteg, and returned on the following day.
— from Louis Spohr's Autobiography Translated from the German by Louis Spohr

If the pit is used, the skins are removed to another drum containing the second solution, and kept at rest or overturned for a like period.
— from A Manual of Shoemaking and Leather and Rubber Products by William H. (William Henry) Dooley

So reluctantly he strapped on merely his Vairking sword and knife, and ran down the path to the beach.
— from The Radio Planet by Ralph Milne Farley