This castle, which is still in good condition, was built by the Armenian kings, and restored by Sultan Suleiman; it was constructed from the remains of the ancient city; fragments of old columns are embedded in its walls of cut stone.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

This the Egyptians say that they know for a certainty, since they always kept a reckoning and wrote down the years as they came.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

If he be an honest man, live soberly, and civilly in his profession, (Volkelius, Crellius, and the rest of the Socinians, that now nestle themselves about Krakow and Rakow in Poland, have renewed this opinion) serve his own God, with that fear and reverence as he ought.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

They also know, And reason not contemptibly: With these Find pastime, and bear rule; thy realm is large.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Empiricists as a rule, are as stout monists of this abstract kind as rationalists are.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

What call’st thou solitude, is not the Earth With various living creatures, and the Aire Replenisht, and all these at thy command To come and play before thee, know’st thou not Thir language and thir wayes, they also know, And reason not contemptibly; with these Find pastime, and beare rule; thy Realm is large.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

The lawyer must have noticed that K. was offering him more resistance than before, as he became silent, giving K. the chance to speak himself, and then, as K. also remained silent, he asked, "Did you have a particular reason for coming to see me today?"
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

Perhaps their authors knew a reason for what they wrote, perhaps they did not; what is that to us?
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

In an inn near Andernach, Rhenish Prussia, Jean-Frederic Taillefer, then a surgeon in the army, killed and robbed, one night, a rich native tradesman, Monsieur Walhenfer, by name; however, he was never incommoded by this murder; for accusing appearances pointed to his friend, colleague and fellow-countryman, Prosper Magnan, who was executed.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Before he had lain there very long he heard a stumping, a thumping, a knocking, a rattling, a grumbling, a rumbling.
— from Old Peter's Russian Tales by Arthur Ransome

We were in the library at the time, and Kitty and Robin left the room together.
— from The Right Stuff: Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton by Ian Hay

When her father came up the steep stair, followed by a dozen of his comrades, she gave a cry of delight and was in his arms in a [Pg 190] moment; and she was soon made such a pet of by the men there that they all wanted her to accept knives, and rings, and pocket combs, and even tobacco-boxes, because they had nothing else to offer her; but she had her father and that was quite enough for her, and as he held her to his breast she could feel his tears fall upon her head, and yet he was as brave as any man who lived upon that coast.
— from Naughty Miss Bunny A Story for Little Children by Clara Mulholland

These highway robbers of the air often unite to gain possession of a prey already taken and killed, and ready to be eaten.
— from The Industries of Animals by Frédéric Houssay

They approached the aged Kadiga, and requested her to assist them to fly with the princesses to Spain.
— from Legends & Romances of Spain by Lewis Spence

His hair is black; I think the eyes too; they are keen and restless—nose aquiline—forehead high and broad—both face and head are fine and manly.
— from The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

Saying these words, he took a knife and ripped up the wallet, so that the porridge ran out.
— from Fiends, Ghosts, and Sprites Including an Account of the Origin and Nature of Belief in the Supernatural by John Netten Radcliffe

These, in the material aspect, are supposed to be the particles of the fourth order, and in the energy aspect they are known as Roeser's Rays.
— from Spacehounds of IPC by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith