The clearing of the sea in the kaloma fishing is also done this way, and many more examples could be adduced from garden magic, wind magic, and other classes not described in this book.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Other oaths are “May my eyes perish” or “May my head be cut off by lightning.”
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

b) The second section shows how a man may escape want and misery by industry and care both in agriculture and in trading by sea.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

The rest of the Nobles belonging to other Provinces, when they found their Chief Lords, who had the Supreme Power were expos'd to the Merciless Element of Fire kindled by a more merciless Enemy; for this Reason only, becauase they bestow'd not what they could not upon them, viz.
— from A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them. by Bartolomé de las Casas

A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them both are dangerous things, either to resemble them because they are many or to hate many because they are unresembling to ourselves.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

It came to be known that sense-perception was not to be trusted unconditionally, and it was therefore hastily concluded that only rational, logical thought could establish truth; although Plato (in the Parmenides), the Megarics, Pyrrho, and the New-Academy, showed by examples (in the manner which was afterwards adopted by Sextus Empiricus) how syllogisms and concepts were also sometimes misleading, and indeed produced paralogisms and sophisms which arise much more easily and are far harder to explain than the illusion of sense-perception.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

che poteſſero dare alguna ſatiſfatiōe a me medeſmo et poteſſero parturirmi q
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

Don't ask me, Miss Engstrand!
— from Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen

I glanced at her, but she avoided meeting my eye, while the pretended brother was looking at me so attentively that he did not hear what was said to him.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

"These girls were anxious to be good, and made many excellent resolutions; but they did not keep them very well, and were constantly saying, 'If we only had this,' or 'If we could only do that,' quite forgetting how much they already had, and how many pleasant things they actually could do.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

Item , at the last cattle sale he had put three hundred florins into his own bag, and many more evil deceits had this wicked cheat practised."
— from Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 2 by Wilhelm Meinhold

After making my excuses to the Cabinet for my interruption, I whispered into the President's ear that there was an old man in my office who knew his father very well in the old days in Georgia and that he wanted an opportunity to shake hands with him.
— from Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him by Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick) Tumulty

Think of some soldier coming in here and making me enlist!
— from The Blot on the Kaiser's 'Scutcheon by Newell Dwight Hillis

I thus called forth another profound feeling—one by which the attentive mind may expand its joys to a high degree.
— from Letters from Switzerland and Travels in Italy by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I can’t stop him, either; Puma’s got all my money except what’s in this parcel.
— from The Crimson Tide: A Novel by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

I shall thus make a much more extensive study of The Mill on the Floss than of either of the four works which preceded it.
— from The English Novel and the Principle of its Development by Sidney Lanier

Lived in the second-floor back in the same 'ouse as me an' my missus, 'e did.
— from A Student in Arms: Second Series by Donald Hankey

O——, May 10, 19—. Dear Mr. Saunderson:— Please accept my most earnest thanks for your kind letter of condolence.
— from The New Century Standard Letter-Writer Business, Family and Social Correspondence, Love-Letters, Etiquette, Synonyms, Legal Forms, Etc. by Alfred B. Chambers