"But if he does it any more I shall certainly let him know that I see what he is about.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

In connection with weighing ceremonies, it may be noted that, at Mulki in South Canara, there is a temple of Venkatēswara, which is maintained by Konkani Brāhmans.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

ut parum absit a furore, rapitur a Lyceo in concionem, a concione ad mare, a mari in Siciliam, &c. 3405 .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

“Why should any one murder a man in so clumsy a fashion as by hanging him?”
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Where also it opens and makes a passage to admit mankind, it still claims the credit of an unbroken continuity by giving the name of “Gates” to these passes, which in one place are called the “Gates of Armenia 3893 ,” in another the “Gates of the Caspian,” and in another the “Gates of Cilicia.”
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

For this retirement to a mountain see Acta , i., 270, and it is referred to in the other lives: "Post hæc egressus occulte perrexit in montem non longe a monasterio, ibique sibi clausulam de siccâ petrâ fecit, et stetit sic annos tres."
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Again, he ( qui magna vorteret ) “who brings about mighty changes” is called Mavors; and Minerva is so called because ( minueret , or minaretur )
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

[45] So Cyprian ( Contra Demetrianum ) says, "Pœnam de adversis mundi ille sentit, cui et lætitia et gloria omnis in mundo est."
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

To propitiate them and to ward off the influence of evil spirits, and witches, who were also active at this time, green leaves or boughs and sumark or primrose flowers were strewn on the threshold, and branches of the cuirn or mountain ash made into small crosses without the aid of a knife, which was on no account to be used (steel or iron in any form being taboo to fairies and spirits), and stuck over the doors of the dwelling-houses and cow-houses.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

A man, I said, could die anywhere.
— from The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca by Maurice Hewlett

Whenever I go to Chester, and a dressed-up madam jostles against me, I shall call her carn-butein.
— from Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery by George Borrow

That formula of card and messenger is so convenient and so cheap.
— from The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani

“The first time that Mr. Foedor is in my lady Vaninka’s room after midnight, I shall come to find your excellency, and then you can judge for yourself if I lie; but up to the present, your excellency, all the conditions of the service I wish to render you are to my disadvantage.”
— from Vaninka Celebrated Crimes by Alexandre Dumas

Personally, if you ask me, I should certainly prefer Otto, little as I know of him, to Gerard.
— from My Lady Nobody: A Novel by Maarten Maartens

Only a mattress in some corner, and a morsel to eat now and then, and, above all, that Mariette will not desert me.
— from Avarice--Anger: Two of the Seven Cardinal Sins by Eugène Sue

I answer that, As stated above (A. 2), a martyr is so called as being a witness to the Christian faith, which teaches us to despise things visible for the sake of things invisible, as stated in Heb.
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

An ape-man larger than any Chet had seen: he stood as motionless as an exhibit in a museum in some city of a far-off Earth.
— from Brood of the Dark Moon (A Sequel to "Dark Moon") by Charles Willard Diffin

On returning to Carmelo, Junipero Serra filled the other missionaries with joy over this latest conquest of souls, and sent messengers to Fathers Soméra and Cambón whom he had left in charge of the Mission at San Diego, to establish a mission in southern California, which they would name San Gabriel.
— from Chimes of Mission Bells; an historical sketch of California and her missions by Maria Antonia Field

She had already read it twice, once before and once after breakfast, but like all maidens in similar cases she wanted to make sure that she had missed none of its honey, implied or expressed.
— from A Traitor's Wooing by Headon Hill