Each square plot is encompassed by handsome streets for traffic; and thus the whole city is arranged in squares just like a chess-board, and disposed in a manner so perfect and masterly that it is impossible to give a description that should do it justice.][NOTE 5] Moreover, in the middle of the city there is a great clock—that is to say, a bell—which is struck at night.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

He is rosy and plump and curly and cute; and he says such funny things and asks such comical questions.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

So far, therefore, as the increase of the quantity of the precious metals in any country arises from the increased abundance of the mines, it is necessarily connected with some diminution of their value.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

To someone not acquainted with the South Sea landscape it is difficult to convey the permanent impression of smiling festiveness, the alluring clearness of the beach, fringed by jungle trees and palms, skirted by white foam and blue sea, above it the slopes ascending in rich, stiff folds of dark and light green, piebald and shaded over towards the summit by steamy, tropical mists.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

511 Whereas in the other division reason uses the hypotheses as stages or steps in the ascent to the idea of good, to which she fastens them, and then again descends, walking firmly in the region of ideas, and of ideas only, in her ascent as well as descent, and finally resting in them.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

I never tie myself to hours, prayers, and sacraments; for they are made for the man and not the man for them.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

I have before described the Harbour to have two Inlets, by Means of a small Island lying at the Mouth of it; at one of which, both the Men of War entered, and left the other open, so that Vane slip’d his Cable, set Fire to a large Prize they had there, and resolutely put out, firing at the Man of War as he went off.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

Not only was every blossom stripped from the apple trees but great boughs and branches were wrenched away.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

[14] In an old song, published a few days after Solebay fight, there are the following lines:— "Well might you hear their guns, I guess, From Sizewell Gap to Easton Ness; They fill'd up all the hollow coast, From Walberswick to Dunwich."
— from The Rival Crusoes; Or, The Ship Wreck Also A Voyage to Norway; and The Fisherman's Cottage. by Agnes Strickland

Little blame attaches to the early settler for this attitude, indeed he acted in accordance with sound economic law.
— from Problems in American Democracy by Thames Williamson

Then, at a sign from the adjutant, they set out, first bidding adieu to Mateo, who answered never a word, and descended at a quick pace towards the plain.
— from Abbé Aubain and Mosaics by Prosper Mérimée

This does not wholly arise from the public instructions of the Sabbath,—those who hear the gospel are constrained to search for themselves, and to use other means to learn the duty which God requires of man.
— from The Sabbath at Home by Silas M. (Silas Milton) Andrews

They were tramping home along the crackling causeway of dried seaweed and the jetsam in which of old they had sought for treasure, and chattering merrily as they went.
— from The Coil of Carne by John Oxenham

What I have said there about the Rev. John Brown, of Bedford, makes it unnecessary for me to add much here, except to say that, as he has no standing in the discussion of the Gipsy question as applicable to Bunyan, he would not be listened to but for his being minister of Bunyan’s Church, and setting forth theories as to his nationality that meet the preconceived opinions and ardent wishes of others.
— from Was John Bunyan a Gipsy? by James Simson

The 16th December they broke up their sorry army, the 18th entered Northumberland, the 19th into the mountains; they scattered all their footmen, willing them to shift for themselves; and of a thousand horsemen there are left but five hundred.
— from The Great Lord Burghley: A study in Elizabethan statecraft by Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp) Hume

His solicitude for the army manifests itself openly.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 by Various

This doctrine is very different from that of the Divine appointment of episcopacy as a form of government, or even from that of the exclusive lawfulness of that episcopacy which has come down by succession from the apostles.
— from The Christian Life: Its Course, Its Hindrances, and Its Helps by Thomas Arnold