XXX.—CONCERNING THE BLACK STONES THAT ARE DUG IN CATHAY, AND ARE BURNT FOR FUEL NOTE.—Distribution and Consumption of Coal in China.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

CONCERNING THE BLACK STONES THAT ARE DUG IN CATHAY, AND ARE BURNT FOR FUEL.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

[ 72 ] A wineglassful several times a day in cholera, fevers, diarrhœa, etc. Botanical Description.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

Up betimes, and my wife being ready, and her mayd Besse and the girl, I carried them by coach and set them all down in Covent Garden and there left them, and I to my Lord Sandwich’s lodgings, but he not being up, I to the Duke’s chamber, and there by and by to his closett, where since his lady was ill, a little red bed of velvet is brought for him to lie alone, which is a very pretty one.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Some learned men say that as Dharma is connected with things not belonging to this world, it is appropriately treated of in a book; and so also is Artha, because it is practised only by the application of proper means, and a knowledge of those means can only be obtained by study and from books.
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Vatsyayana

If I wanted to defend Myself, I could call seventy thousand angels down; I could call legions of angels down; I could defend Myself if I wanted to.”
— from Bible Characters by Dwight Lyman Moody

I could not see who of the scattered group around followed them, for all present rose at their departure, and seated themselves again directly in complete silence.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

A security given by an old man for £262 10 s. to a dentist, in consideration of his old teeth being kept in order and new ones being supplied during the remainder of his life, had to be given up ( 374 ).
— from The Law and Medical Men by R. Vashon (Robert Vashon) Rogers

Bagadania, although a plain country, and situated more towards the south than any district in Cappadocia, (for it lies at the foot of the Taurus,) produces scarcely any fruit-bearing trees.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 2 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

the late rains have injured the chief portion of the line, so that a disaster is confidently looked for every hour.
— from Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General by Charles James Lever

In many species the adult dress is characterized by a mottling of various shades of grayish mixed with ochraceous or fulvous, this ornamented by a variable, often very intricate, pencilling of dusky, and more or less mixed with white.
— from A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 3 of 3 by Robert Ridgway

[57] "I have traversed all Rousseau's ground with the Heloïsa before me," said Byron, "and am struck to a degree I cannot express, with the force and accuracy of his descriptions and the beauty of their reality."
— from Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) by John Morley

For instance, suppose that a doctor is called a distance of five miles and away from his home and his other patients, and when he examines the case the pains seem to be of the character of false labor pains.
— from Mother, Nurse and Infant A Manual Especially Adapted for the Guidance of Mothers and Monthly Nurses, Comprising Full Instruction in Regard To Pregnancy, Preparation for Child-birth, and the Care of Mother and Child, and Designed to Impart so Much Knowledge of Anatomy, Physiology, Midwifery, and the Proper Use of Medicines as Will Serve Intelligently to Direct the Wife, Mother and Nurse in All Emergencies. by S. P. Sackett