Hear all of you, ministers of the gods and sanctifiers of offerings, the fulfilling of praises on this seventeenth day of the sixth moon of this year, as the morning sun goes up in glory, of the Oho-Nakatomi, who—having abundantly piled up like a range of hills the TRIBUTE thread and sanctified LIQUOR and FOOD presented as of usage by the people of the deity's houses attributed to her in the three departments and in various countries and places, so that she deign to bless his [the Mikado's] LIFE as a long LIFE, and his AGE as a luxuriant AGE eternally and unchangingly as multitudinous piles of rock; may deign to bless the CHILDREN who are born to him, and deigning to cause to flourish the five kinds of grain which the men of a hundred functions and the peasants of the countries in the four quarters of the region under heaven long and peacefully cultivate and {49} eat, and guarding and benefiting them to deign to bless them—is hidden by the great offering-wands.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

A poor uneducated lad A manuscript as heirloom had.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

An enlightened reader laughs at the inconsistent chimera Page 341 of our author, of a people universally luxurious, and at the same time oppressed with taxes and declining in trade.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

A physiological uneasiness leads a child to be "into everything,"—to be reaching, poking, pounding, prying.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

v [AN2; b] steer a boat with a rudder, or with a paddle used like a rudder.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Roasted eggs were a previously unknown luxury and very hot potatoes with salt and fresh butter in them were fit for a woodland king—besides being deliciously satisfying.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

They are a poor, useless lot, and not worth even half the purchase money.”
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

With a New York dateline, a copyright notice, and even a printers' union label all neatly falsified, the book expressed opposition to Roosevelt's war.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

These big [ 35 ] clearings, triangular in shape, with the apex pointing uphill, look as if they were plastered on to the steep slopes. From August to November, the season when the natives cut and burn the bush, they can be seen, at night, alight with slowly-blazing logs, and in daytime, their smoke clings over the clearings, and slowly drifts along the hill side.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

It would hardly be necessary to tell any reader (only it is as pleasant to repeat these stories, as it is to hear beautiful old airs) that Alpheus was a river-god of Greece, who fell in love with the wood-nymph Arethuse; and that the latter, praying for help to Diana, was converted into a stream, and pursued under land and sea by the other enamoured water, as far as the island of Sicily, where the streams became united.
— from A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla by Leigh Hunt

And as he came the fire that wrapped her glory round left her, and passed upward like a cloak of flame.
— from The World's Desire by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

“A careful search of his rooms today resulted in the discovery of a document in his own handwriting, written after he left your apartment last night, and put under lock and key some time prior to the arrival of the assassins.
— from Shot With Crimson by George Barr McCutcheon

He loved man with a pure, undefiled love, and not himself.
— from True Christianity A Treatise on Sincere Repentence, True Faith, the Holy Walk of the True Christian, Etc. by Johann Arndt

You go and make fools of yourselves over these short-skirted little hussies all powdered up like a box of marshmallows.
— from Rope by Holworthy Hall

Then they spoke in so low a voice, he could not hear; but his wife pressed a purse upon Leonard, and Leonard hesitated, but ended by taking it.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

He put on a play uniform like a soldier.
— from The Japanese Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins

It may interest you also to learn of the confirmation of a certain faith you are perhaps unwittingly lending a novice in the ways of the world.
— from The Prince of India; Or, Why Constantinople Fell — Volume 01 by Lew Wallace

The Masdekiye, the adherents of Masdek, who declared war against all religion and morality, and preached universal liberty and equality, the indifference of human actions, and community of goods and women.
— from The History of the Assassins, Derived from Oriental Sources by Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph, Freiherr von

[429] , Atalanta and Urtica , Argynnis Paphia , Urania Leilus , and many other Butterflies, &c. are clothed with long sharp points, which claim the denomination of spines, rather than that of hairs or bristles; being horny and hard, and so stiff at the point as readily to pierce the skin.
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 3 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby