Yun-Hien was the abbot of one of those great minsters and abbeys of Bacsis , of which Marco speaks, and the exact date (no longer visible) of the monument was equivalent to A.D. 1288.[2]
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

The clouds sunk as the evening drew on, and it became dark.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

The bad measures or bad appointments of a minister may be checked by Parliament; and the interest of ministers in defending, and of rival partisans in attacking, secures a tolerably equal discussion; but quis custodiet custodes?
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

In consequence of this the police, knowing that the Comte St. Germain was staying at the Etoile d’Orient, sent to arrest him at midnight, but the bird had flown.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

And now let us divide the state, assigning to each division some God or demigod, who shall have altars raised to them, and sacrifices offered twice a month; and assemblies shall be held in their honour, twelve for the tribes, and twelve for the city, corresponding to their divisions.
— from Laws by Plato

The ancient Surveyor—being little molested, I suppose, at that early day with business pertaining to his office—seems to have devoted some of his many leisure hours to researches as a local antiquarian, and other inquisitions of a similar nature.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

It was at the little comfortable Ducal town of Pumpernickel (that very place where Sir Pitt Crawley had been so distinguished as an attache; but that was in early early days, and before the news of the Battle of Austerlitz sent all the English diplomatists in Germany to the right about) that I first saw Colonel Dobbin and his party.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

On the 9th he thanks Kellermann for the troops he sends, and their excellent discipline.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

Take sugar and lard and break up the same as for pie crust, then slowly add the eggs; do not cream it; put in about 1 quart milk and dissolve the ammonia in it.
— from Book of American Baking A Practical Guide Covering Various Branches of the Baking Industry, Including Cakes, Buns, and Pastry, Bread Making, Pie Baking, Etc. by Various

The distance was so short, and the range so accurate, that each discharge fell with deadly precision into the column as it breasted the hill.
— from The Battles of the British Army Being a Popular Account of All the Principal Engagements During the Last Hundred Years by Robert Melvin Blackwood

Scarcely had I effected this without accident, when the still terrified fair one clung close to me anew, and indeed so as to excite Dorette’s extreme surprise.
— from Louis Spohr's Autobiography Translated from the German by Louis Spohr

(Lord),they exclaimed at times; and yet they behaved like men.[FN#16] I had ordered them to place the [p.70] water-camel in front, so as to exercise due supervision.
— from Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Yesterday, when she had passed, the splendor of the trees, it is true, lay shorn upon the ground; but the earth was warm, pleasant, with a fragrant odor, the air soft and the evening descended in a glow.
— from The Salamander by Owen Johnson

The native labourers, who work in three shifts of eight hours each, after cleaving the “hard-blue” with their picks, load it onto trolley-cars, which are attached to a cable and hauled to the surface of the pit, where it is spread on mile-long fields and exposed for several months to rain, wind, and sun so as to effect decomposition.
— from The Last Frontier: The White Man's War for Civilisation in Africa by E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) Powell

It is a doctrine so abhorrent to every drop of my blood, so infinitely cruel, that it is impossible for me to respect either the head or heart of any human being who teaches or fears it.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 07 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Discussions by Robert Green Ingersoll

From literary sources we gather that a man, or even a woman, was stationed at the entrance door of a theatre, in his hand he held a box into which everyone who entered dropped a penny; note well that the money was always deposited in the box and not handed over into the keeping of the boxholder, by which act we must regretfully conclude that Elizabethan doorkeepers were in no way more trusted than our ’bus and tram conductors of the present day, more’s the pity!
— from Shakespeare and the Stage With a Complete List of Theatrical Terms Used by Shakespeare in His Plays and Poems, Arranged in Alphabetical Order, & Explanatory Notes by Maurice Jonas