When the husbands are own brothers, the eldest brother usually gives the bow and arrow, and is the father of the child, though, so long as the brothers live together, the other brothers are also regarded as fathers.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

Ten years later Marie became the wife of the broker Colonda, and Rose, a few years afterwards, married a nobleman, Pierre Marcello, and had one son and two daughters, one of whom was wedded to M. Pierre Moncenigo, and the other to a nobleman of the Carrero family.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The aunt's gall was on float to reply, when a servant brought a letter into the room, which Leonora, hearing it came from Bellarmine, with great eagerness opened, and read as follows:— "MOST DIVINE CREATURE,—The wound which I fear you have heard I received from my rival is not like to be so fatal as those shot into my heart which have been fired from your eyes, tout brilliant .
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding

He was as true and as ready a friend of mine still as ever he had been in his life.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

In short it is animated by the exclusive aristocratic spirit [231] , which distinguishes the ancient religions, and from which it was a main function of Christianity to deliver mankind.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Beyond its borders extends the immense region of conceived time, past and future, into one direction or another of which we mentally project all the events which we think of as real, and form a systematic order of them by giving to each a date.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

My aunt received a few lines next day in reply; addressed, outside, to her; within, to me.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

They never eat the flesh of the cow buffalo, and as a rule abstain from the flesh of the male.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

“He may be merely a rich and feather-brained young officer,” I said to myself, “who treats everything in this farcical manner.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

He at once made out a summons for the election of a representative assembly for Saxony, to be held at Chemnitz.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

Coffin was just about to call Drake’s attention to them, when, without warning, the man by the lamp whipped out a revolver and fired point blank at the one approaching.
— from The Picaroons by Gelett Burgess

Long rows of peas stretched at right angles from the main walk, and I saw Phillis stooping down among them, before she saw us.
— from Cousin Phillis by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

When the light of this intensely heated nucleus is transmitted through the incandescent photosphere of the sun, the bright lines which would be produced by the photosphere are reversed, and Frauenhofer’s dark lines are only the reversed bright lines which would be visible if the intensely heated nucleus were no longer there.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

"I was again running away from Jubal the Ugly One," she said.
— from At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The centre of the faith was at Rome, and from there the influence in art spread west and north, and in each land it was modified by local peculiarities of type and temperament.
— from A Text-Book of the History of Painting by John Charles Van Dyke

Then he came home, had a drop to drink from the tub of sperrits that the smugglers kept us in for housing their liquor when they’d made a run, and for burning ’em off when there was danger.
— from Life's Little Ironies A set of tales with some colloquial sketches entitled A Few Crusted Characters by Thomas Hardy

Likewise the Hunting Carpets of Persia, the Holbein Carpets of Asia Minor, and the Dragon Carpets of Armenia, represent, as far as we know, the textile craft of no well-defined district of limited area, as is the case of modern rugs, but rather rare types.
— from Oriental Rugs, Antique and Modern by W. A. (Walter Augustus) Hawley

These ladies had not apparently remembered that they would find him there; and Madame de Remusat, imagining that she already saw him leaping out of bed saber and pistol in hand, turned and ran as fast as she could, still holding the candle in her hand, and leaving the Empress in complete darkness, and did not stop to take breath until she reached the Empress's bedroom, when she remembered that the latter had been left in the corridor with no light.
— from Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Volume 04 by Louis Constant Wairy

"He died for our sins, and rose again for our justification" (Rom. 4:25).
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan

The revolt against the innovating patriarch was, in reality, a revolt against foreign, particularly against Western, influences.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 15, No. 88, April, 1875 by Various