Thus there are a great many tribes where water is a totem; a strict prohibition is manifestly impossible in this case.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

A few paces distant, an enormous pillar, then another, then another; seven pillars in all, down the length of the hall, sustaining the spring of the arches of the double vault, in the centre of its width.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

They were those which treat of the haunts of sea-fowl; of “the solitary rocks and promontories” by them only inhabited; of the coast of Norway, studded with isles from its southern extremity, the Lindeness, or Naze, to the North Cape— “Where the Northern Ocean, in vast whirls, Boils round the naked, melancholy isles Of farthest Thule; and the Atlantic surge Pours in among the stormy Hebrides.”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Among my workmen and then to the office, and after that dined with Sir W. Batten, and then home, where Sir W. Warren came, and I took him and Mr. Shepley and Moore with me to the Mitre, and there I cleared with Warren for the deals I bought lately for my Lord of him, and he went away, and we staid afterwards a good while and talked, and so parted, it being so foul that I could not go to Whitehall to see the Knights of the Bath made to-day, which do trouble me mightily.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

I had money with me, and gained the friendship of the villagers by distributing it; or I brought with me some food that I had killed, which, after taking a small part, I always presented to those who had provided me with fire and utensils for cooking.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I had money with me, and gained the friendship of the villagers by distributing it, or bringing with me some food that I had killed, which, after taking a small part, I always presented to those who had provided me with fire and utensils for cooking.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Certain instances are appended which will indicate the style of differencing which was in vogue, but it should be distinctly remembered that the object was not to allocate the bearer of any particular coat of arms to any specific place in the family pedigree, but merely to show that he was not the head of the house, entitled to bear the undifferenced arms, if indeed it would not be more accurate to describe these instances as simply examples of different coats of arms used by members of the same family.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

If any of the Lacedaemonians or of their allies invade or injure the King's country, the Lacedaemonians and their allies shall prevent it: and if any from the King's country invade or injure the country of the Lacedaemonians or of their allies, the King shall prevent it.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

arreglar t arrange, settle, put in order.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

A terrible answer suddenly presented itself—“Good form?”
— from Peter Pan by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

Sir Philip made a slight, but impatient motion of the hand, but Mr. Short went on to say, "As she was so severely and terribly affected, Sir Philip, I have given Mistress Emily a composing draught, which has already had the intended effect of throwing her into profound slumber.
— from The Man in Black: An Historical Novel of the Days of Queen Anne by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

and I have not two or three thousands to give away to a strange place in a lump; but we have our voices.
— from The Long Vacation by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

“I have seen,” says he, “four or five of these unfortunate creatures, from fifteen to eighteen years old, in whom the back was very convex, and the abdomen seemed pressed into the chest; 120 the extremities of the long bones, particularly those which form the elbows and knees, were very much enlarged; the legs were thrown out, and their muscles were scarcely developed; their eyes were sunken; their countenances pale and white; and their voices acute.
— from A Treatise on the Diseases Produced By Onanism, Masturbation, Self-Pollution, and Other Excesses. by L. (Léopold) Deslandes

They take the stuff between their fingers and thumbs and slowly pull it apart, looking attentively at the fine fibers which stretch and separate as the gentle pull is completed.
— from From Dublin to Chicago: Some Notes on a Tour in America by George A. Birmingham

Mrs. Orme gave the required promise, hardly thinking at the moment whether or no she would be guilty of any treason against Sir Peregrine in doing so.
— from Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope

Similar great congregations of the feathered race appear where the shores are rocky high, and precipitous, but this is strikingly the case, where ——"The northern ocean, in vast whirls, Boils round the naked melancholy isles Of farthest Thule; and the Atlantic surge Pours in among the stormy Hebrides.
— from The Reason Why A Careful Collection of Many Hundreds of Reasons for Things Which, Though Generally Believed, Are Imperfectly Understood by Robert Kemp Philp

And I feel sure that I have some information that you don't know about, and there are some people involved.
— from Warren Commission (01 of 26): Hearings Vol. I (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission