Now the next that reigned after Chinghis Kaan, their first Lord,[NOTE 1] was CUY KAAN, and the third Prince was BATUY KAAN, and the fourth was ALACOU KAAN, the fifth MONGOU KAAN, the sixth CUBLAY KAAN, who is the sovereign now reigning, and is more potent than any of the five who went before him; in fact, if you were to take all those five together, they would not be so powerful as he is.[NOTE 2] Nay, I will say yet more; for if you were to put together all the Christians in the world, with their Emperors and their Kings, the whole of these Christians,—aye, and throw in the Saracens to boot,—would not have such power, or be able to do so much as this Cublay, who is the Lord of all the Tartars in the world, those of the Levant and of the Ponent included; for these are all his liegemen and subjects.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

That it was affirmed that the great Hendrick Hudson, the first discoverer of the river and country, kept a kind of vigil there every twenty years, with his crew of the Half-moon; being permitted in this way to revisit the scenes of his enterprise, and keep a guardian eye upon the river and the great city called by his name.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

Even at present the descendants of that race are called kings, and receive certain honours, as the chief seat at the public games, a purple robe as a symbol of royal descent, a staff instead of a sceptre, and the superintendence of the sacrifices in honour of the Eleusinian Ceres.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

In spite of it all, the rooms are cleanly kept.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

The fiefs of all classes of the daimiôs were in their turn at first partitioned out among their retainers, and called Ke-rai in their relation to their immediate lords, and bai-shin [pg 37] (arrière vassals) as being vassals of those who acknowledged the suzerainty of the Shôgun.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

roccian to rock ( a child ), Kl 101 108 .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

I am not at all sure that my unconquerable aversion to every form of tobacco does not date from these repulsive and compulsory kisses.
— from Folly as It Flies; Hit at by Fanny Fern by Fanny Fern

Rewrite the following extract from Irving's "Sketch Book," and change it to a direct quotation:— He assured the company that it was a fact, handed down from his ancestor the historian, that the Catskill Mountains had always been haunted by strange beings; that it was affirmed that the great Hendrick Hudson, the first discoverer of the river and country, kept a kind of vigil there every twenty years, with his crew of the Half-moon, being permitted in this way to revisit the scenes of his enterprise, and keep a guardian eye upon the river and the great city called by his name; that his father had once seen them in their old Dutch dresses playing at ninepins in a hollow of the mountain; and that he himself had heard, one summer afternoon, the sound of their balls, like distant peals of thunder.
— from An English Grammar by James Witt Sewell

Mr. Arbuton thought this rather a coarse kind of drolling, and strengthened himself anew in his resolution to avoid those people.
— from A Chance Acquaintance by William Dean Howells

All the more important Souks have thick roofs, and consequently keep cool in the hottest weather, so that even when the thermometer stands at 100° in the shade, the bazaars seem quite fresh, almost chilly at first, as one steps into the dark out of the sunshine.
— from Algeria and Tunis by Frances E. Nesbitt

Ayrton’s aim seems to have been to compel Hooker to resign and convert Kew Gardens into a public park.
— from Springtime and Other Essays by Darwin, Francis, Sir

As to the boundary on the west, between the Province of Fei-êrh-kan [Ferghana], which is subject to Russia, and Chinese Kashgar, officials will be deputed by both countries to examine it, and they will fix the boundary line between the territories at present actually under the jurisdiction of either country, and they will erect boundary stones thereon.
— from The Middle Kingdom, Volume 1 (of 2) A Survey of the Geography, Government, Literature, Social Life, Arts, and History of the Chinese Empire and its Inhabitants by S. Wells (Samuel Wells) Williams

Without a moment's hesitation Roy turned round with his back to the ravine, and catching Ken's hands, let himself drop quietly till his long body dangled at full length against the face of the cliff.
— from On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles by T. C. (Thomas Charles) Bridges

Any discrepancies should be adjusted at once, but if the records are carefully kept, and an inventory of each class is taken two or three times a year, the discrepancies should be practically nil.
— from Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy, Business Administration, v. 02 (of 10) by American School of Correspondence

The reading of certain books and daily newspapers attunes the brain to receive a certain kind of vibration and the results usually lead to the reform school and State prison.
— from The Secret of Life, Death and Immortality A startling proposition, with a chapter devoted to mental therapeutics and instructions for self healing by Henry Fleetwood