Major Sykes ( Persia , ch. iii.) seems to prove that geographers have, without sufficient grounds, divided the great desert of Persia into two regions, that to the north being termed Dasht-i-Kavir, and that further south the Dasht-i-Lut—and that Lut is the one name for the whole desert, Dash-i-Lut being almost a redundancy, and that Kavir (the arabic Kafr ) is applied to every saline swamp.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

If we have to define the universe from the point of view of sensibility, the critical material for our judgment lies in the animal kingdom, insignificant as that is, quantitatively considered.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

In Gen. x. 11 the foundation of the Assyrian kingdom is ascribed to Nimrod; for the verse ought to be translated: “He went forth from that land into Asshur.”
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

But the multitude was still so foolish as to be deaf to these predictions of what would befall them; and too peevish to suffer a determination which they had injudiciously once made, to be taken out of their mind; for they could not be turned from their purpose, nor did they regard the words of Samuel, but peremptorily insisted on their resolution, and desired him to ordain them a king immediately, and not trouble himself with fears of what would happen hereafter, for that it was necessary they should have with them one to fight their battles, and to avenge them of their enemies, and that it was no way absurd, when their neighbors were under kingly government, that they should have the same form of government also.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

At the point, these threads are knotted into a big tassel with another bunch of supplementary threads added to them.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

In order to confine the “Rĕngkesa” (a Spectral Reaper) to the boundaries, visit the four corners of the field, and at each corner tie a knot in a rice-leaf, and hold your breath while you repeat the following charm:— “In the name of God, etc., A swallow has fallen striking the ground, Striking the ground in the middle of our house-yard.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Notwithstanding the fact that Admiral Krusenstern, in a clever essay, has given an able review of the literature pertaining to this question, and has shown that where Bering saw St. Stephen, Cook, Sarycheff, and Vancouver likewise saw an island, [Pg 159] different from Ukamok, and regardless of the fact that for these reasons he restored St. Stephen on his map, Lieutenant Sokoloff, who most recently, in Russian literature, has treated Bering's voyage to America, has wholly disregarded Krusenstern's essay, and says that St. Stephen is identical with Ukamok.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

Now must we tell about King Inge and his men.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

He is brought home in triumph and kept in a cage, where all the villagers take it in turns to feed him.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

" "Or, if indeed you be a pretty one, we'll take a kiss instead, and call it a fair deal," laughed another, as flippantly as if the night were not being rent with the uproar of the fighting mob just behind them.
— from From Kingdom to Colony by Mary Devereux

It might again be pointed out that Sun Yat-sen differed with Marxism which, while it, of course, does not hold that all knowledge is already found, certainly keeps its own first premises beyond all dispute, and its own interpretations sacrosanct.
— from The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

It is not always possible to give new points of view to all knowledge in all subjects.
— from College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Paul Klapper

He came to Innis Glora, and alighted there, and kneeled in a strange fashion, and supplicated some god.
— from The Laughter of Peterkin: A retelling of old tales of the Celtic Wonderworld by William Sharp

No doubt this clay is calcareous mud, similar to that at Keeling Island, and to that at Bermuda already referred to, as undistinguishable from disintegrated chalk, and which Lieutenant Nelson says is called there pipe- clay.
— from Coral Reefs; Volcanic Islands; South American Geology — Complete by Charles Darwin

We have got to get the business of this town and keep it away from Skip.
— from Mark Tidd in Business by Clarence Budington Kelland

Neither loving nor beloved in the bosom of his own family,—too much of a fatalist to care for the future,—neither enjoying life nor fearing death,—the Turanian is generally free from those vices which contaminate more active minds; he remains sober, temperate, truthful, and kindly in all the relations of life.
— from A History of Architecture in all Countries, Volume 1, 3rd ed. From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by James Fergusson

And Virgil, who may have entered the sacred presence as frightened as Jacquard, when Napoleon I sent for him and said, with a stern voice and threatening gesture, "You are the man who can tie a knot in a stretched string," may have departed as well pleased as Jacquard with the riband and pension which the interview was worth to him.
— from A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Augustus De Morgan

Works of good art, like books, exercise a conservative effect on the rooms they are kept in; and the wall of the library or picture gallery remains undisturbed, when those of other rooms are re-papered or re-panelled.
— from Unto This Last, and Other Essays on Political Economy by John Ruskin

But they all knew it and felt it and the robin and his mate knew they knew it.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett