[With regard to the gout of Kúblái Khan, Palladius (p. 48) writes: "In the Corean history allusion is made twice to the Khan's suffering from this disease.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

But when along with this, the objects, that cause pleasure or pain, acquire a relation to ourselves or others; they still continue to excite desire and aversion, grief and joy: But cause, at the same time, the indirect passions of pride or humility, love or hatred, which in this case have a double relation of impressions and ideas to the pain or pleasure.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Very probably the good-looking face of the young woman in the clogs had a good deal to do with the impression of well-being this peasant household made upon Levin, but the impression was so strong that Levin could never get rid of it.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Now it will be much easier for the judge to determine whether the woman in the case had at the critical time an especial inclination to this “devilment,” than to discover whether her own husband was sexually insufficient, or whatever similar secrets might be involved.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

" But from Mr. Wordsworth's more elevated compositions, which already form three-fourths of his works; and will, I trust, constitute hereafter a still larger proportion;—from these, whether in rhyme or blank verse, it would be difficult and almost superfluous to select instances of a diction peculiarly his own, of a style which cannot be imitated without its being at once recognised, as originating in Mr. Wordsworth.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To my Lord’s and found him dined, and so I lost my dinner, but I staid and played with him and Mr. Child, &c., some things of four parts, and so it raining hard and bitter cold (the first winter day we have yet had this winter), I took coach home and spent the evening in reading of a Latin play, the “Naufragium Joculare.”
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

“And who is this cavalier, Henrietta?” asked the queen.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

This Dog wore a collar of gold, and sat on a throne, but, for all his wisdom and power, seems to have been a dog still; for when some wolves invaded the cattle, he attacked and was torn to pieces by them.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

There was the village in the hollow on the left; but, in order to gain that, after pursuing the track Oliver had pointed out, the men must have made a circuit of open ground, which it was impossible they could have accomplished in so short a time.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

The two women in the cloaks have arrived at a juncture at which they must stand still in the ecstasy of the story; the narrator shoots out a spike of a thumb, and digs her auditor in the chest to barb the point of the jest as it is delivered.
— from Some Irish Yesterdays by E. Oe. (Edith Oenone) Somerville

I was in the Court House, and in my anger cried, 'Pull him down!'"
— from The Life of Abraham Lincoln, from His Birth to His Inauguration as President by Ward Hill Lamon

What is wanted is the comprehensive hand, and not the prehensile tail.
— from The History of Dartmouth College by Baxter Perry Smith

But if you have scruples (moral or physical) about this course, you may proceed to employ Reason, which in this case has all the savage solidity of a blow with the fist.
— from Alarms and Discursions by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Amid all he has here already achieved, full, we may think, of the quiet assurance of what is to come, his attitude is still that of the scholar; he seems still to be saying, before all things, from first to last, "I am utterly purposed that I will not offend.
— from The Works of Max Beerbohm by Beerbohm, Max, Sir

But Napoleon, with a vehement movement of the hand, waved back the offered money, a burning redness for a moment covered his face, then his cheeks assumed that yellowish whiteness which in the child had always indicated a violent emotion.
— from Empress Josephine: An Historical Sketch of the Days of Napoleon by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

I wonder if that could have anything to do with it!”
— from Mam' Lyddy's Recognition 1908 by Thomas Nelson Page

Across the block from the two drillers knelt a man with a rubber tube who poured water into the churning hole; and at each blow of the hammer the gray mud leapt up, splashing turner and hammer-man alike.
— from Silver and Gold: A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp by Dane Coolidge