Then they take of the broth and sprinkle it before the door of the house; and that done, they deem that their god and his family have had their share of the dinner.[NOTE 1]
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

To Mr. Atlee Hunt, C.M.G., Secretary of the Home and Territories Department of the Commonwealth of Australia, I am indebted for the financial assistance of the Department, and also for much help given on the spot.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Su Fuh, a necromancer, who lived B.C. 219, is said to have announced their discovery, and at the head of a troop of young men and maidens, voyaged with an expedition towards them, [ 168 ] but, when within sight of the magic islands, were driven back by contrary winds.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

this while (pretending a desire of leave to go into France, and to have all the difference between him and the Chancellor made up,) endeavouring to make factions in both Houses to the Chancellor.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The highest among them does not exceed three and three-quarter miles in perpendicular elevation; but a map of the volcanic districts of the Campi Phlegraei would afford to your Excellencies a better idea of their general surface than any unworthy description I might think proper to attempt.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

The youth thanked the governor for his kind offer to take them home, and they directed their steps towards the house, which was not far off.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

415 The nature of man may be viewed in two ways: the one according to its end, and then he is great and incomparable; the other according to the multitude, just as we judge of the nature of the horse and the dog, popularly, by seeing its fleetness, et animum arcendi ; and then man is abject and vile.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

He told her about the wet-nurse, she told him about political justice; he told her about the deadly sister-in-law, she told him about her mother; he told her about the bonnet-shop, she murmured back about the rights of woman; then he assuaged her, then she assuaged him; then he assuaged her some more, next she assuaged him some more; then they both assuaged one another simultaneously; and so they went on by the hour assuaging and assuaging and assuaging, until at last what was the result?
— from In Defence of Harriet Shelley by Mark Twain

{40} There was a weariness and a dissatisfaction with the inherited forms of religious expression; and many felt a sense of separation from God, of a gulf between the human and the divine, which they hoped might be bridged by a direct revelation, by a vision, which would grant immediate knowledge of God.
— from Pagan Ideas of Immortality During the Early Roman Empire by Clifford Herschel Moore

She knew whom she believed, and was persuaded that he was able to keep that which she had committed to him against that day.
— from Catharine by Nehemiah Adams

“But the other people have to take their chances,” protested the girl; “if they choose to have anything to do with men like that.”
— from The Moneychangers by Upton Sinclair

At the same time he announced the dismissal of three other members of the Government.
— from A Queen of Tears, vol. 2 of 2 Caroline Matilda, Queen of Denmark and Norway and Princess of Great Britain and Ireland by W. H. (William Henry) Wilkins

Consequently they made a proposition to the leader of this party to leave two of his men at the place at which they were then stopping, and to let Cook and Smith have two of the horses, agreeing to divide the reward in case the criminals should be overtaken and captured.
— from Hands Up; or, Thirty-Five Years of Detective Life in the Mountains and on the Plains Reminiscences by General D. J. Cook, Chief of the Rocky Mountains Detective Association by D. J.‏ ‎(David J.) Cook