We may gather from this that these Tartars were already settled along the Yellow River and the Yin Shan (the valley in which is now the important frontier mart of Kwei-hua Ch'eng) at the beginning of the ninth century, for the Uigúrs, driven southward by the Kirghiz, first occupied Kan-chou in north-western Kan-suh, somewhere about A.D. 842."] NOTE 3.—CHORCHA ( Ciorcia ) is the Manchu country, whose people were at that time called by the Chinese Yuché or Niuché , and by the Mongols Churché , or as it is in Sanang Setzen, Jurchid .
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Allowing the case, however, to stand according to your representation, you must remember, Miss Bennet, that the friend who is supposed to desire his return to the house, and the delay of his plan, has merely desired it, asked it without offering one argument in favour of its propriety.”
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Out of that you went straight, with a little interval of passage, to the plain room where Mr. Jarndyce slept, all the year round, with his window open, his bedstead without any furniture standing in the middle of the floor for more air, and his cold bath gaping for him in a smaller room adjoining.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

A well-attested case of such an apparitional appearance of the earl has been recorded by Miss Anne Baily, the percipient having been Teigue O’Neill, an old blacksmith whom she knew (see All the Year Round , New Series, iii. 495-6, London, 1870).
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

And still as the years roll by, bringing with them changes for good and bad, the memory of the great saint is honoured by the boys of this college who make every year their annual retreat on the days preceding the feast day set apart by our Holy Mother the Church to transmit to all the ages the name and fame of one of the greatest sons of catholic Spain.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

"Do you really think," he asked, "that God is pleased by your rejecting things that are good enough for the captain and other people on the ship, and that you really serve Him by making yourself so different from anybody else?"
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

As a matter of fact all Congress had said to the Filipinos by its action may be summed up about thus: “The sugar and tobacco interests of this country have at last realized that such little of the sugar and tobacco you raise as may stray over to this side of the world will not be in the least likely to hurt them.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

It was a regular place of public entertainment for the poorer classes; a tavern where there was nothing to pay; a public breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper all the year round; a brick and mortar elysium, where it was all play and no work.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

It was a regular place of public entertainment for the poorer classes—a tavern where there was nothing to pay—a public breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper all the year round—a brick and mortar elysium, where it was all play and no work.
— from Oliver Twist, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Charles Dickens

Some persons, to increase the strength of orange syrup, add the yellow rind of the oranges grated on lumps of the sugar.
— from Miss Leslie's Lady's New Receipt-Book, 3rd ed. A Useful Guide for Large or Small Families, Containing Directions for Cooking, Preserving, Pickling... by Eliza Leslie

Book-stealing, to be sure, remains to us; but every one is not a collector; and, besides, 'tis a diversion you can follow with equal success all the year round.
— from Pagan Papers by Kenneth Grahame

I tell you I have knelt and prayed, night after night, that your heart might be softened, and that your reckless spirit might be tutored into seeing what was right, and into ceasing from this rebellion against the laws of God and man.”
— from The Vicar's People by George Manville Fenn

"That lion must have come quite near, to scare 'em so," asserted the young rancher.
— from Comrades of the Saddle; Or, The Young Rough Riders of the Plains by Frank V. Webster

So I took cowardly advantage of this and proposed we should get married at the American Consulate as soon as the yacht returned to Nagasaki.
— from A Chicago Princess by Robert Barr