(See Reinaud, Mém. sur l'Inde , 171; also Sprenger P. and R. R. 77.)
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

When the king of Kibanga, on the Upper Congo, seems near his end, the sorcerers put a rope round his neck, which they draw gradually tighter till he dies.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

"No word has passed," she patiently and resolutely resumed, "between myself and the person to whom I am now referring for the first and last time in your presence of my feelings towards him, or of his feelings towards me—no word ever can pass—neither he nor I are likely, in this world, to meet again.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Some of her blood still pure and red remain'd, And some look'd black, and that false Tarquin stain'd.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Some turn in the road, some new object suddenly perceived and recognised, reminded me of days gone by, and were associated with the light-hearted gaiety of boyhood.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The vehicle, in which I took my place, was considerably larger than an English stage-coach, to which it bore much the same proportion and rude resemblance, that an elephant's ear does to the human.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Men and women, boys and girls, trotted along beside or after the cart, hooting, shouting profane and ribald remarks, singing snatches of foul song, skipping, dancing—a very holiday of hellions, a sickening sight.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

In the myths, at least among the Arunta, she plays a religious rôle much more important than she does in reality ( Nat. Tr. ,
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

A demand for American mediation soon became widespread in the United States; the Senate passed a resolution requesting the President to proffer his good offices to that end.
— from The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I by Burton Jesse Hendrick

In one type the outer third of the shank in the newly hatched chick is covered by strong, heavy, specialized feathers, directed outward, while the middle and inner thirds are covered by smaller, finer, imbricating feathers sparsely placed and resembling reduced contour-feathers.
— from Inheritance of Characteristics in Domestic Fowl by Charles Benedict Davenport

Both the causes and the effects of this movement were much more than merely literary; the "romantic revival" penetrated every crevice and ramification of life in those parts of Europe which it affected; its social, political, and religious results were all deeply significant.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

Hence he did not see the boy who rose slowly to a sitting posture, a ready rifle in his hands.
— from The Quest of the Four: A Story of the Comanches and Buena Vista by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

You can get the details of the lives of all the celebrated ecclesiastics in the list; all the celebrated tragedians, comedians, singers, dancers, orators, judges, lawyers, poets, dramatists, historians, biographers, editors, inventors, reformers, statesmen, generals, admirals, discoverers, prize-fighters, murderers, pirates, conspirators, horse-jockeys, bunco-steerers, misers, swindlers, explorers, adventurers by land and sea, bankers, financiers, astronomers, naturalists, Claimants, impostors, chemists, biologists, geologists, philologists, college presidents and professors, architects, engineers, painters, sculptors, politicians, agitators, rebels, revolutionists, patriots, demagogues, clowns, cooks, freaks, philosophers, burglars, highwaymen, journalists, physicians, surgeons—you can get the life-histories of all of them but one .
— from Is Shakespeare Dead? From My Autobiography by Mark Twain

#60 By this law, Bahá’u’lláh greatly simplifies practices and religious regulations of the past relating to hunting.
— from The Kitáb-i-Aqdas by Bahá'u'lláh

Take an ounce and a half each of plantain, shepherd's purse and red rose leaves; an ounce of dried mint, and three ounces of bean flour; boil all these in plantain water and make two plasters:—apply one before and one behind.
— from The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy by Aristotle