i., and to that on Mediaeval Military Engines in vol.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

In this connection I shall cite from an article by Dr. K. M. Teigen of Minneapolis, Minnesota, entitled “Pionerliv” (Pioneer Life).
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

They were therefore, of modern make, easily used, and of terrible effect.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

With three or more members, et is either used between the members or, frequently, prefixed for emphasis to all.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

To bid the wretched smile, to lift the load of misery and care from the afflicted breast; to fill thy lover's heart with joy and pleasing hope, was still the darling task of my Monimia, ere yet refined to that perfection which mortality can never attain.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

O, those long, gloomy days, with no object for my eye to rest upon, and no thoughts to occupy my mind, except the dreary past and the uncertain future!
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

America contained scores of men worth five millions or upwards, whose lives were no more worth living than those of their cooks, and to whom the task of making money equivalent to education offered more difficulties than to Adams the task of making education equivalent to money.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Yet even then, through the other hemisphere, the corpus callosum , and the bilateral connections in the spinal cord, one can imagine some road by which the old muscles might eventually be innervated by the same incoming currents which innervated them before the block.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Then come in the thousands of mill men, engaged on the work of reducing the wood to pulp.
— from Postal Riders and Raiders by W. H. Gantz

When I last heard of Mr. Haslam, a surgeon was attending him, and probing for the ball. R——, from Canada, [Captain Ross, of Toronto, once my mate] escaped the carnage; but is dead since, from the wounds.
— from The Eureka Stockade by Raffaello Carboni

Fox stipulated for the admission or promotion of five persons, the only memorable ones of whom were George Selwyn, whose lovable and humorous personality has survived that of many more eminent contemporaries, and Hamilton, who is the only man, except the less-known Hawkins, who is remembered by a single speech.
— from Lord Chatham, His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of

When our Lord says, “Eat of every herb save that in which is bitterness,” he means, says Clement, that marriage and continence are left to our choice, and that there is no command one way or the other; man may eat of every tree, the tree of celibacy, or the tree of marriage, only he must abstain from the tree of evil.
— from The Lost and Hostile Gospels An Essay on the Toledoth Jeschu, and the Petrine and Pauline Gospels of the First Three Centuries of Which Fragments Remain by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

I was the one man mad enough, it seems, To do my work; and now my work is over.
— from The Three Taverns: A Book of Poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson

But this only makes more effective those natural gleams that come unbidden.
— from Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 by Dorothy Wordsworth

A few standard molds are made so that plates with lettering can be inserted for customers who want trademarks or firm names on their bottles; but the great majority of the lettered bottles have their own molds, made especially for them and unable to be used for any other lot.
— from How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers by Willard Grosvenor Bleyer

The esplanade also contains the one modern monument erected by the Corfiotes themselves—a statue of Capo d'Istria.
— from Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu by Constance Fenimore Woolson

She seated herself as she spoke in the chimney corner on a low ottoman, and spreading out her hands to the fire; she said— "Don't let me stop you unless you were talking of me, Miss Emma Watson, it is your turn—what do you think?"
— from The Younger Sister: A Novel, Volumes 1-3 by Mrs. (Catherine-Anne Austen) Hubback