In those brooks are found trout and many other fish of dainty kinds; and the air in those regions is so pure, and residence there so healthful, that when the men who dwell below in the towns, and in the valleys and plains, find themselves attacked by any kind of fever or other ailment that may hap, they lose no time in going to the hills; and after abiding there two or three days, they quite recover their health through the excellence of that air.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Further, the Excellence of the Moral character is thought to result in some points from physical circumstances, and to be, in many, very closely connected with the passions.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

However, instead of returning on board as might have been expected, the boat coasted along the islet, so as to round its southern point.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

The river is sweetly pretty just there before you come to the gates, and the backwater is charming; but don’t attempt to row up it.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

And notwithstanding this unlikely Course, they met and took several Ships between Axim and that Place; the circumstantial Stories of which, and the pannick Terrors they struck into his Majesty’s Subjects, being tedious and unnecessary to relate, I shall pass by, and come to their Arrival in that Road. Captain Bartho.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

proptereā quod inter fīnēs Helvētiōrum et Allobrogum Rhodanus fluit isque nōnnūllīs locīs vadō trānsītur , 1, 6, 2, because the Rhone runs between the district of the Helvetians and Allobrogans, and the river in some places can be forded , or is fordable .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Sitinta ang ábang, apil ang túbig, The rent is seventy pesos including the water.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

This rapid I observed as I passed opposit to it to be verry bad interseped with high rock and Small rockey Islands, here I observed banks of Muscle Shells banked up in the river in Several places, I Delayed at the foot of the rapid about 2 hours for the Canoes which I Could See met with much dificuelty in passing down the rapid on the oposit Side maney places the men were obliged to get into the water and haul the canoes over Sholes—while Setting on a rock wateing for Capt Lewis I Shot a Crain which was flying over of the common kind.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Arrived at the place where the Deer was confined, Sir Gnaw-net (the Rat is so properly named)
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

The resemblance is so perfect, that he might have been the original of Mrs. Stowe’s christian hero.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

He opened his Bible and attempted to read its sacred pages; but he could not confine his thoughts.
— from The Deaf Shoemaker: To Which Are Added Other Stories for the Young by Philip Barrett

The rostellum is sometimes pigmented.
— from The Animal Parasites of Man by Fred. V. (Frederick Vincent) Theobald

The roads in some places are tolerable, but in other places exceeding bad, by reason of which, and a long though necessary march, three of our wagons and the carriages of two field pieces were broken down.
— from The Journal of Lieut. John L. Hardenbergh of the Second New York Continental Regiment from May 1 to October 3, 1779, in General Sullivan's Campaign Against the Western Indians With an Introduction, Copious Historical Notes, and Maps of the Battle-field of Newtown and Groveland Ambuscade by John Leonard Hardenbergh

She then, turning to Don Quixote and addressing herself to him said, “Some days since, valiant knight, I gave you an account of the injustice and treachery of a wicked farmer to my dearly beloved daughter, the unhappy damsel here before you, and you promised me to take her part and right the wrong that has been done her; but now it has come to my hearing that you are about to depart from this castle in quest of such fair adventures as God may vouchsafe to you; therefore, before you take the road, I would that you challenge this froward rustic, and compel him to marry my daughter in fulfillment of the promise he gave her to become her husband before he seduced her; for to expect that my lord the duke will do me justice is to ask pears from the elm tree, for the reason I stated privately to your worship; and so may our Lord grant you good health and forsake us not.”
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Let it drain for a minute or two, moving it so as not to allow the albumen to run in streaks; pin it to a piece of tape; and, when dry, pass a very hot iron over the back.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 189, June 11, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

What happened will be found instructive to the reader in several particulars; among them these: (1) The free-lance mining promoter does not always "get the money" when he succeeds in creating a buoyant market for his stock.
— from My Adventures with Your Money by George Graham Rice

Yet, if the required interment should prove impossible, he is to be deprived of his legacy.
— from The Vanishing Man A Detective Romance by R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman

"If the apology is not forthcoming instanter," murmured the ruffian, "I shall puncture the wonderful talking dog with a bullet!"
— from Frank Merriwell's Backers; Or, The Pride of His Friends by Burt L. Standish

Frequent use of the catheter, without any treatment to prevent the further enlargement of the diseased gland, or to reduce its size, permits the part to go on enlarging, and, besides, the constant use of the catheter irritates the prostatic portion of the urethra, causing thickening of the lining membrane, and sooner or later a more or less complete organic stricture of this canal, depending upon thickening of the lining mucous membrane, as well as upon the encroachment of the gland itself upon this canal.
— from The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand by Ray Vaughn Pierce