The visitors evidently took the statement in a literal sense, and scrutinised Yule closely.[70] In 1886 Yule published his delightful Anglo-Indian Glossary , with the whimsical but felicitous sub-title of Hobson-Jobson (the name given by the rank and file of the British Army in India to the religious festival in celebration of Hassan and Husaïn).
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

I frequently ride out and take the air;—though sometimes, to my shame be it spoken, I take somewhat longer journies than what a wise man would think altogether right.—But the truth is,—I am not a wise man;—and besides 20 am a mortal of so little consequence in the world, it is not much matter what I do: so I seldom fret or fume at all about it: Nor does it much disturb my rest, when I see such great Lords and tall Personages as hereafter follow;—such, for instance, as my Lord A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, and so on, all of a row, mounted upon their several horses,—some with large stirrups, getting on in a more grave and sober pace;——others on the contrary, tucked up to their very chins, with whips across their mouths, scouring and scampering it away like so many little party-coloured devils astride a mortgage,—and as if some of them were resolved to break their necks.——So much the better—say I to myself;—for in case the worst should happen, the world will make a shift to do excellently well without them; and for the rest,——why——God speed them——e’en let them ride on without opposition from me; for were their lordships unhorsed this very night—’tis ten to one but that many of them would be 21 worse mounted by one half before tomorrow morning.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Walled towns, stored arsenals and armories, goodly races of horse, chariots of war, elephants, ordnance, artillery, and the like; all this is but a sheep in a lion’s skin, except the breed and disposition of the people be stout and warlike.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

The shepherd in a long speech tells how Daphne was changed into a tree, and then Apollo is seen at the foot of a laurel tree weeping, accompanied by two minstrels.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

For we that want the warmth of double life, We that are plagued with dreams of something sweet Beyond all sweetness in a life so rich,— Ah, blessed Lord, I speak too earthlywise, Seeing I never strayed beyond the cell, But live like an old badger in his earth, With earth about him everywhere, despite All fast and penance.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

2. He was sitting in a large stable, to hide (himself), and also in order to (98) look directly from its roof (at) the soldiery (126) of the enemy.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

A life member is one who pays his dues for twenty years or so in a lump sum, and is exempted from dues even if he lives to be a hundred.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

He was standing with Stepan Arkadyevitch and Sergey Ivanovitch, and looking straight at Levin as he drew near.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

"Heed not that, dear Altisidora," replied a voice; "the duchess is no doubt asleep, and everybody in the house save the lord of thy heart and disturber of thy soul; for just now I perceived him open the grated window of his chamber, so he must be awake; sing, my poor sufferer, in a low sweet tone to the accompaniment of thy harp; and even if the duchess hears us we can lay the blame on the heat of the night."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

I found him so immature and lacking strength that I did no more than disarm him, and taking his arm pushed him behind me, telling Van Berchem to look after him.
— from The Memoirs of General Baron de Marbot by Marbot, Jean-Baptiste-Antoine-Marcelin, baron de

Her face was as white as death; but she grasped me by the hand when she saw me, and said, in a low, strained voice,— "Take me somewhere, Dicon, before he can get out!"
— from In Taunton town : a story of the rebellion of James Duke of Monmouth in 1685 by Evelyn Everett-Green

"I have given you too much trouble," he says, stupidly, in a leaden sort of way.
— from Portia; Or, By Passions Rocked by Duchess

But knowing that he was a good speaker in a light style, and had been President of the Cambridge Union, I put him down to propose the Club, thinking that we should have enough serious speaking and would be well to err on the side of entertainment.
— from Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Maisie Ward

She lectured continually to large audiences during the Civil War on war themes, and subjects in a lighter strain; was the first woman widely received as a lecturer by the colleges and lyceums.
— from Memories and Anecdotes by Kate Sanborn

She did not mean to offend you, I am sure; though perhaps she is a little spoilt by all the attention she receives."
— from True to a Type, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Robert Cleland

Fastened to the back of the skate is a long, slender tail, like that of a rat, only larger, and between the tail and the round, flat body on the under side, are two things that really look like legs.
— from Six Little Bunkers at Cousin Tom's by Laura Lee Hope

He did not shake his fist at the embodied spirit of metropolitanism before him, as had a famous Gallic precursor of his, also a determined seeker for Success in a lesser sphere; but he paraphrased Rastignac’s threat in his own terms.
— from Success: A Novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams

One of her household says in a letter—"She sleepeth not so much by day as she used, neither taketh rest by night.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Wars of the Roses to the Great Rebellion by Anonymous