There is, however, a notable work which is ascribed to a rather early date in the 14th century, and which, though it contains no reference to Polo by name, shows a thorough acquaintance with his book, and borrows themes largely from it This is the poetical Romance of Bauduin de Sebourc, an exceedingly clever and vivacious production, partaking largely of that bantering, half-mocking spirit which is, I believe, characteristic of many of the later mediaeval French Romances.[14]
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

There I grew up surrounded with everything that was beautiful and rare, and learning everything that is ever taught to a princess, but without any companions but a parrot and a little dog, who could both talk; and receiving every day a visit from one of the old fairies, who came mounted upon the dragon.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

On this first march we must at once leave behind, a number of men completely worn out and scattered about, often just the bravest, who have been foremost in the fight who held out the longest: the feeling of being conquered, which only seized the superior officers on the battlefield, now spreads through all ranks, even down to the common soldiers, aggravated by the horrible idea of being obliged to leave in the enemy's hands so many brave comrades, who but a moment since were of such value to us in the battle, and aggravated by a rising distrust of the chief, to whom, more or less, every subordinate attributes as a fault the fruitless efforts he has made; and this feeling of being conquered is no ideal picture over which one might become master; it is an evident truth that the enemy is superior to us; a truth of which the causes might have been so latent before that they were not to be discovered, but which, in the issue, comes out clear and palpable, or which was also, perhaps, before suspected, but which in the want of any certainty, we had to oppose by the hope of chance, reliance on good fortune, Providence or a bold attitude.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

How could such experiences as these, especially when they are repeated every day.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Well, of course, Marfa Petrovna told Avdotya Romanovna every detail about me.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

That’s what you’re a man for and wear trousers and read El Diario de Manila ,” 6 answered his unterrified spouse, casting on him a terrible look.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

It so happened, however, that a real estate deal on the part of the owner of the land arranged things even more effectually than ill-will could have schemed.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

The rites of the other type are really exorcisms directed against evil bewitchment ( bulubwalata ) of which the natives are much afraid.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

He told them that they had made an ungrateful return to him for his services to his country; and then dismissed them all, restoring even Domitius's well-filled military chest, and too proud to require a promise from him that he would abstain personally from further hostility.
— from Caesar: A Sketch by James Anthony Froude

However that may be, said Arabella, it raises Sir George greatly in my esteem, to hear he is descended from kings; for, truly, a royal extraction does infinitely set off noble and valiant actions, and inspires only lofty and generous sentiments: therefore, illustrious prince (for in that light I shall always consider you), be assured, though fortune has despoiled you of your dominions, yet since she cannot deprive you of your courage and virtue, Providence will one day assist your noble endeavours to recover your rights, and place you upon the throne of your ancestors, from whence you have been so inhumanly driven; or, haply, to repair that loss, your valour may procure you other kingdoms, no less considerable than that to which you was born.
— from The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella, v. 1-2 by Charlotte Lennox

Military and naval power, unless carried to a ridiculous excess does not, therefore, lie idle, even when not in actual use.
— from The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit by Ralph Waldo Trine

The Belgian Commission is spending more than 100 million dollars a year to keep the Belgians alive—only because they are robbed every day.
— from The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II by Burton Jesse Hendrick

He has very kindly favored us with the appended reply: E ditor.
— from The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 31, June 10, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls by Various

Ringing [Pg 238] cheers of triumph greet this, the greatest salvo of the whole war, for, as the smoke clears away and the deafening thunder and reverberating echoes die down, our friends and their fellow-spectators see that this very first discharge is bringing down huge masses of masonry.
— from The Disputed V.C.: A Tale of the Indian Mutiny by Frederick P. Gibbon

At the present time, experiments respecting these transmigrations are repeated every day in the laboratories of zoology with the same success; and Mons.
— from Animal Parasites and Messmates by P. J. van (Pierre Joseph) Beneden

This ambitious residence emptied Dumas’s pockets of the little money that the ladies he loved had left in them.
— from Lola Montez: An Adventuress of the 'Forties by Edmund B. (Edmund Basil) D'Auvergne

The soft parts are commonly more or less thickened, and rendered exceedingly dense by effusion of lymph into the cellular texture; and so great is this thickening sometimes, that the knife is resisted as if by cartilage.
— from Elements of Surgery by Robert Liston