I have disputed at Athens, and at Becca in Arabia, for thou hast the same crabbed air and dusty look, as though thou hadst passed thy days in reading ill-writ Greek, and been stained dark with the grime of manuscripts.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

This circumstance, coupled with his ambiguous, half-hinting, half-revealing, shrouded sort of talk, now begat in me all kinds of vague wonderments and half-apprehensions, and all connected with the Pequod; and Captain Ahab; and the leg he had lost; and the Cape Horn fit; and the silver calabash; and what Captain Peleg had said of him, when I left the ship the day previous; and the prediction of the squaw Tistig; and the voyage we had bound ourselves to sail; and a hundred other shadowy things.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Now, in this same catalogue, fifty-three acknowledged varieties are recorded, and these range over 7.7 provinces; whereas, the species to which these varieties belong range over 14.3 provinces.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Women in general would be brought up equally capable of understanding business, public affairs, and the higher matters of speculation, with men in the same class of society; and the select [Pg 155] few of the one as well as of the other sex, who were qualified not only to comprehend what is done or thought by others, but to think or do something considerable themselves, would meet with the same facilities for improving and training their capacities in the one sex as in the other.
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

They are styled SHIENG, which is as much as to say "The Supreme Court," and the palace where they abide is also called Shieng .
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

“Stop!” said the Englishman, “I have the key of that door;” and he opened the door, with a trembling hand, into the second compartment, where Mousqueton and Blaisois were preparing supper.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

The smallest current coin.
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

By this new plan São Paulo borrowed $75,000,000 from the syndicate composed of American, English, German, French, and Belgian bankers.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Towards evening two sailors came after the rest of the luggage, and thanking my hostess I told Leah to put up my linen, and to give it to her father, who had taken the box of which I was to be the bearer down to the vessel.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I will come then," she cried, "as a heifer, white-skinned, but with ears that are red, At what time thou in fight shalt endeavour the blood of a hero to shed, Whose skill is full match for thy cunning; by the ford in a lake I will be, And a hundred white cows shall come running, with red ears, in like fashion to me:
— from Heroic Romances of Ireland, Translated into English Prose and Verse — Volume 2 by Arthur Herbert Leahy

Two hours ago, while Gloria had been watching the shadows creeping among the pines, Mark King had arrived.
— from The Everlasting Whisper by Jackson Gregory

Or it may have been Frederick Hassler, the Swiss, Chief of the United States Survey in the long ago, en route for Cape Vincent—the man who knew more and tougher mathematics than all of his successors together, and who could say more while the hostlers were changing horses than anybody else could say in sixty minutes.
— from The World on Wheels, and Other Sketches by Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin) Taylor

The map makers of the sixteenth century regarded them as different places, and notwithstanding Totonteac was reported to be "a hotte lake" in the middle of the previous century, it held its place on maps into the seventeenth century.
— from Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Jesse Walter Fewkes

610 ERRATA FOR VOL I. Page 27, title of Book I. for end of the sixteenth , read commencement of the sixteenth century . 43, l. 4 from the top, for Don Juan de Manuel , read Don Juan Manuel .
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 1 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek

MAYONNAISE DRESSING 1 egg yolk 1 tablespoonful vinegar 1 tablespoonful lemon juice 1/4 teaspoonful mustard 3/4 teaspoonful salt 1/2 teaspoonful sugar Cayenne 1 cupful vegetable oil 2 tablespoonfuls boiling water Put the egg yolk into a mixing bowl, add hot vinegar, and mix thoroughly.
— from School and Home Cooking by Carlotta C. (Carlotta Cherryholmes) Greer

Nothing good, as he truly said, could come from the Shekh of Atbara.
— from Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, Volume 4 (of 5) In the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773 by James Bruce

The same class of belief attaches to the magical lore of widely separated lands, in all ages.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes