[Sidenote: Chaucer and Marco Polo.]
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

The United States consul, and most prominent man there at the time, was Thomas O. Larkin, who had a store and a pretty good two-story house occupied by his family.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Summā cum alacritāte mīlitēs pāruērunt, et trānsitō Rubicōne 4 initium bellī cīvīlis factum est.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

1152 This passage is somewhat confused, and may possibly be in a corrupt state.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

"Blundering into your house, Kemp," he said, "changes all my plans.
— from The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Another peculiarity is, the rooms are not plastered, but the ceiling and sides are covered with matched cypress boards, painted such color as most pleases the owner's taste.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

There is nothing so empty and necessitous as thou, who embracest the universe; thou art the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and, after all, the fool of the farce.” H2 anchor CHAPTER X——OF MANAGING THE WILL Few things, in comparison of what commonly affect other men, move, or, to say better, possess me: for ‘tis but reason they should concern a man, provided they do not possess him.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

We see before us a nation who had attained to as distinct a conception of the Almighty as we have ourselves; who had discovered a heaven, a hell, and an intermediate place, without the assistance of Jew or Greek, Babylonian or Persian; who had instituted a sacerdotal class, and made provision for their subsistence, without any assistance from Melchizedek or Moses; who had adopted a principle of national education long before such a thing was thought of in England, or in Europe.
— from Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities in Central and Western Asia, Europe, and Elsewhere, Before the Christian Era. Showing Their Relations to Religious Customs as They Now Exist. by Thomas Inman

Having observed that there is, in Salem Village, a Spirit full of Contention and Animosity, too sadly verifying the Blemish, which hath heretofore lain upon them; and that some Complaints against Mr. Parris have been either causeless or groundless, or unduly aggravated, we do, in the Name and Fear of the Lord, solemnly warn them to consider whether, if they continue to devoure one another, it will not be Bitterness in the latter End."
— from The Witchcraft Delusion in New England: Its Rise, Progress, and Termination (Vol. 3 of 3) by Robert Calef

The deck was scrubbed, and the seats were scrubbed, and there was a bench for the band, and a place for dancing, and a pile of camp-stools, and an awning; and then Mr. Percy Noakes bustled down below, and there were the pastrycook’s men, and the steward’s wife, laying out the dinner on two tables the whole length of the cabin; and then Mr. Percy Noakes took off his coat and rushed backwards and forwards, doing nothing, but quite convinced he was assisting everybody; and the steward’s wife laughed till she cried, and Mr. Percy Noakes panted with the violence of his exertions.
— from Sketches by Boz, Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People by Charles Dickens

Moreover, Father Théodose, encouraged, inspired by this success, conceived a masterly plan to reap another large harvest of money by the saint's aid.
— from Truth [Vérité] by Émile Zola

I was perplexed as to what I ought to do under the circumstances, but by the advice of two Washingtonians, one of them the general agent of my paper, I still continued at my post of editor.
— from The Opium Habit by Horace B. Day

The familiar, undeniable good of the present has to be waived in favour of what 'common sense' calls a misty possibility in the future.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers by Alexander Maclaren

Another great brick district exists on the plains of Lombardy and the northern part of Italy generally, and beautiful brickwork, often with enrichments in marble, is to be found in such cities as Milan, Pavia, Cremona, and Bologna.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887 by Various