Teimur, son of Chen kim, wore the temple name ( miao-hao ) of Ch'êng Tsung and the title of reign ( nien-hao ) of Yuen Chêng and Ta Téh.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

We conclude our work with the well-meant and by no means useless recommendation to our readers, never to begin a piece of work of any considerable size without first making sure that the colours they intend to use are fast and providing themselves with a larger supply of materials than even on a close calculation they think they are likely to require, lest they should find themselves under the disagreable necessity of having either to leave their work unfinished or finish it with materials that do not match.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

And, indeed, it is held that while one of the three officers remains, no election can be held, even by dispensation, to fill the other two places, though vacancies in them may have occurred by death or removal.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

For all other kind of hindrances that are not hindrances of thy mind either they are proper to the body, or merely proceed from the opinion, reason not making that resistance that it should, but basely, and cowardly suffering itself to be foiled; and of themselves can neither wound, nor do any hurt at all.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

Maxentius had imbibed the same implacable aversion to the senate, which had characterized most of the former tyrants of Rome; nor was it possible for his ungrateful temper to forgive the generous fidelity which had raised him to the throne, and supported him against all his enemies.
— 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

We recommend these two pretty patterns, to our readers notice, as likewise adaptable by transposition, to centres, or by repetition, to broad stripes.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

What could be more consonant with the natural course of the thought, as developed in the lines which follow, than that Macduff, being told to think of revenge, not grief, should answer, 'No one who was himself a father would ask that of me in the very first moment of loss'?
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

So also in the case of the Roman ' Vicus Aurelii ' on the Ohra river, now 'Oehringen.'
— from The English Village Community Examined in its Relations to the Manorial and Tribal Systems and to the Common or Open Field System of Husbandry; An Essay in Economic History (Reprinted from the Fourth Edition) by Frederic Seebohm

The only really new point in it is, that, in order to make an end of begging and poverty, the mendicant
— from Luther, vol. 6 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

“Why, it’s almost like the ocean,” remarked Ned as, standing well forward, near the port rail, he looked across the lake and saw the big waves.
— from Fenn Masterson's Discovery; or, The Darewell Chums on a Cruise by Allen Chapman

Cairo is to our rear ninety-five miles.
— from A. D. 2000 by Alvarado M. (Alvarado Mortimer) Fuller

In 1855, at a competitive trial of reapers near Paris, three machines were entered.
— from The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century. by Edward W. (Edward Wright) Byrn

[Pg 241] came up from all quarters to Laon, and it was announced that Brother Doumer had received the orthodox Republican nomination.
— from France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 by William Henry Hurlbert