In a plate attached to next chapter, I have drawn, on a small scale, the existing cities of Peking, as compared with the Mongol and Chinese cities in the time of Kúblái.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

As the axe cut through the stem, and divided the pith, the tree fell with a groan to the earth, conscious of pain and faintness, and forgetting all its anticipations of happiness, in sorrow at leaving its home in the forest.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

1. Two hundred years before the eloquent complaint of Poggius, an anonymous writer composed a description of Rome.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Nor can the principle of ‘increasing life,’ or that of ‘aiming at self-development,’ or that of ‘giving free play to impulse,’ be so defined as to afford us any practical guidance to the end of Egoism, without falling back on the empirical comparison of pleasures and pains.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

A very simple expedient in a room where massive furniture and low windows make the daylight dressing-table difficult, is the European custom of putting an ordinary small table directly in the window and standing a good sized mirror on it.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

It is realised, in greater or less degree, in the whole life of the community, in the entire complex of private and public relations which, in the widest sense, may be called Society.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Many incidents in the elfish career of Pierston are made to happen here.
— from The Hardy Country: Literary landmarks of the Wessex Novels by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

741 The Children’s Aid Society extends its labors to every class of poor and needy children that can be reached, but makes the street children the especial objects of its care.
— from Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City by James Dabney McCabe

To this the young mother would not consent, and the visitor departed with some chillingly-polite phrases, part English, part French, beyond the exact comprehension of Pierre, and leaving the father and mother and little Marguerite happy.
— from Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North. Complete by Gilbert Parker

In one of the epic convulsions of Paris a woman of the people, standing on a barricade, raised her petticoat, showed the soldiery her naked belly, and cried, "Kill your mothers!"
— from William Shakespeare by Victor Hugo

They likewise said that the wise man would not be so much absorbed in the pursuit of what is good, as in the attempt to avoid what is bad, considering the chief good to be living free from all trouble and pain; and that this end was attained best by those who looked upon the efficient causes of pleasure as indifferent.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

The Mekkawys believe that their city, with all the inhabitants, is under the especial care of Providence, and that they are so far favoured above all other nations.
— from Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred by John Lewis Burckhardt

There were two officers in particular, who were the especial confidants of Philip,—Antipater and Parmenio.
— from The Boys' Book of Famous Rulers by Lydia Hoyt Farmer

The city of San' Louis, now hoary with a century's years, was one of those early settlements planted by the Canadian French up and down the great valley, from the Northern Lakes to the Gulf, while the English colonists of Plymouth and Jamestown were wringing out a wretched subsistence along the sterile shores of the Atlantic, wearied out by constant warfare with the thirty Indian tribes within their borders.
— from Flagg's The Far West, 1836-1837, part 1 by Edmund Flagg

Day after day from outraged senators would come vigorous demands for firm action on the part of America, insistent that something radical be done to establish conditions of peace along our southern borders.
— from Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him by Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick) Tumulty

As this appears evidently ridiculous, we must conclude, that each cause of pride and humility is not adapted to the passions by a distinct original quality; but that there are some one or more circumstances common to all of them, on which their efficacy depends.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume