The prince agrees, but is rather dismayed at Bauduin's confidence, and desires his followers, in case of his own death, to burn with him horses, armour, etc., asking at the same time which of them would consent to burn along with him, in order to be his companions in the other world: "Là en i ot.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

I was careful not to draw my breath as we passed, and trembled when I saw a workman come out upon the roof, lest with one thoughtless stamp of his foot he should crush the structure beneath him, and bring it rattling down.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

This was Thales, who was thought to be merely a lyric poet, and who used this art to conceal his graver acquirements, being in reality deeply versed in legislation.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

I did not want to find her aged and broken; I really dreaded it.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

a man of miseries; Propp'd on a staff, a beggar old and bare In rags dishonest fluttering with the air! Now pass'd the rugged road, they journey down The cavern'd way descending to the town, Where, from the rock, with liquid drops distils A limpid fount; that spread in parting rills Its current thence to serve the city brings; An useful work, adorn'd by ancient kings.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

De nouvelles sociétés sont créées pour répondre aux besoins informatiques récents des entreprises, alors que l'activité dans le domaine des vieux systèmes ralentit.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Most of the docket having been disposed of, and there being a lull between Christmas and New Year’s [ 430 ] day which afforded time for matters more or less perfunctory in their nature, the prosecuting attorney brought in rough drafts of two proposed orders for the court to sign.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

These are used in speaking of the letters, in pronouncing them in abbreviations, as ko to po for k. t. p. (= etc.), and in spelling words, as bo, i, ro, do, o, birdo .
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

A boy in Russian dress, desperately waving his arms and bowed down to the ground, overtook her.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

It was a beautiful if rough drive down the hills to the river-flats and another little hamlet that is now a full-grown town, with a railway to it.
— from Thirty Years in Australia by Ada Cambridge

"Yes," added a third; "and you may be sure that when a boy is reading during his evenings, and at other spare moments, he is out of mischief, and that is something in these days.
— from The Bobbin Boy or, How Nat Got His learning by William Makepeace Thayer

For an instant a different light came into the eyes, and Bok instinctively realized Dodgson was about to say something.
— from A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After by Edward William Bok

And presently a horse, a dark bay saddle pony moving as lazily as the clouds above, brought its rider down to the stream.
— from The Short Cut by Jackson Gregory

These inoffensive [Pg 389] insects are frequently caught in great quantities, crammed into small boxes without food, and carried in the pockets of school-boys to be taken out and tormented at their leisure, which is done in this manner; a crooked pin having two or three yards of thread attached to it, is thrust through the tail of the chafer, and on its being thrown into the air it naturally endeavours to fly away, but is readily drawn back by the boy, which occasions it to redouble its efforts to escape; these struggles are called spinning, and the more it makes of them, and the quicker the vibrations are, the more its young tormentor is delighted with his prize.
— from The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and Pompous Spectacles from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Joseph Strutt

That is to say, though its absolute direction is the same as before, its relative direction is altered.
— from Response in the Living and Non-Living by Jagadis Chandra Bose

Could be that's absurd, but I really did.
— from The Samurai Strategy by Thomas Hoover

"Several of these creatures [PRESQUE TOUTES, says the exaggerative Princess] had, in their arms, a baby in rich dress; and if you asked, 'Is that yours, then?' they answered, making salaams in Russian style, 'The Czar did me the honor ( m'a fait l'honneur de me faire cet enfant )!'"— Which statement, if we deduct the due 25 per cent, is probably not mythic, after all.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 04 by Thomas Carlyle