After this they cut the skins of the goats into strips and run about naked, except a girdle round the middle, striking with the thongs all whom they meet.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

The languages which have the rest of the new territory, Spanish and Russian, are not established as culture languages, as English is.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Another ran about naked, except a pair of drawers about his waist, crying day and night, like a man that Josephus mentions, who cried, 'Woe to Jerusalem!'
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

Thus in the United States I found that restlessness of heart which is natural to men, when all ranks are nearly equal and the chances of elevation are the same to all.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Indeed, in a religious age, no effective attack on the existing church is possible save one inspired by piety.
— from The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith

It was merely modification and retrenchment, and not entire abandonment .
— from The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings by Harriet Beecher Stowe

International class feeling is a reality, and not even a nebulous reality; the nebula has developed centres of condensation.
— from The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage by Norman Angell

[129] Another ran about naked, except a pair of drawers about his waist, crying day and night, like a man that Josephus mentions, who cried, ‘Woe to Jerusalem!’
— from Historical Parallels, vol. 2 of 3) by Arthur Thomas Malkin

[176] The organization of social service which only a few years back took a beginning in the form of an unpretentious bureau has shot ahead with amazing rapidity and now exercises an influence of coördination upon the churches, charities and philanthropic societies of the city.
— from Catastrophe and Social Change Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster by Samuel Henry Prince

Gretchen sat with hands folded, looking at these words, that arched a new heaven above her and revealed a new earth around her.
— from Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Wilhelmine von Hillern

He seemed to divine my thoughts, and raising as nearly erect as the low roof would permit, he pulled out with ease a large stone placed under the loophole, removed the iron bars, and displayed an opening sufficiently large to permit two men to pass through.
— from Under Sentence of Death; Or, a Criminal's Last Hours by Victor Hugo