In the account of Vincent Yanez Pinzon's Voyage to the S.W. in 1499 as given in Ramusio (III. 15) after Pietro Martire d'Anghieria, it is said:—"Taking the astrolabe in hand, and ascertaining the Antarctic Pole, they did not see any star like our Pole Star; but they related that they saw another manner of stars very different from ours, and which they could not clearly discern because of a certain dimness which diffused itself about those stars, and obstructed the view of them."
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

H2 anchor The Single Life Of Priests Sixtly, the Deniall of Marriage to Priests, serveth to assure this Power of the pope over Kings.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

The whole of his left side seemed like one, painfully stretched scar, and he limped badly on his two rows of legs.
— from Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

He had heard, indeed, some curious Houyhnhnms observe, that in most herds there was a sort of ruling Yahoo (as among us there is generally some leading or principal stag in a park), who was always more deformed in body, and mischievous in disposition, than any of the rest; that this leader had usually a favourite as like himself as he could get, whose employment was to lick his master’s feet and posteriors, and drive the female Yahoos to his kennel; for which he was now and then rewarded with a piece of ass’s flesh.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

At two hundred francs the metre, the sixty leagues of Paris’ sewers of the present day represent forty-eight millions.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Locked in a strange language, on parchment stored in vaults in Spain, are the records of this enterprise.
— from Pony Tracks by Frederic Remington

So likewise our Prophet, seeing the dawn of his day, betook himself to Hiva, a rock, bleak, barren, waterless.
— from The Prince of India; Or, Why Constantinople Fell — Volume 01 by Lew Wallace

' Three dice are taken and well shaken in the box with the left hand, and then cast out on a board or table on which a circle is previously drawn with chalk; and the following are the supposed predictions of the throws:— Three, a pleasing surprise; four, a disagreeable one; five, a stranger who will prove a friend; six, loss of property; seven, undeserved scandal; eight, merited reproach; nine, a wedding; ten, a christening, at which some important event will occur; eleven, a death that concerns you; twelve, a letter speedily; thirteen, tears and sighs; fourteen, beware that you are not drawn into some trouble or plot by a secret enemy; fifteen, immediate prosperity and happiness; sixteen, a pleasant journey; seventeen, you will either be on the water, or have dealings with those belonging to it, to your advantage; eighteen, a great profit, rise in life, or some desirable good will happen almost immediately, for the answers to the dice are said to be fulfilled within nine days.
— from The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims. Volume 2 (of 2) by Andrew Steinmetz

“Herewith certified that the owner of the pass has subscribed his name with his own hand.” ( Signed ) Lieutenant of Police, Stralsund.
— from The Tunnellers of Holzminden (with a side-issue) by H. G. (Hugh George) Durnford

On his neck Andréi Yéfimitch had a small tumour which forbade his wearing starched collars; he always wore a soft linen or print shirt.
— from The Black Monk, and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov