They receive high pay, but theirs is a dismal life, for they must live apart from their species, because their commerce with the dead defiles them, and any who should associate with them would share their defilement.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Each of these customs has been sustained and acted on by the English courts, and Judge Lowell has decided in accordance with still a third, which gives the whale to the vessel whose iron first remains in it, provided claim be made before cutting in. /4/
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

But so joyously, and with such a grateful expression, was his brother regarding the trio that Paul could only respond with a smile.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

However, the morning sunlight restored my courage, and I once more wandered among the trees, but always with some anxiety as to what I might see next.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

Are you ignorant that for many years Agathon has not resided at Athens; and not three have elapsed since I became acquainted with Socrates, and have made it my daily business to know all that he says and does.
— from Symposium by Plato

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

A receipt for bullion is almost always worth something, and it very seldom happens, therefore, that anybody suffers his receipts to expire, or allows his bullion to fall to the bank at the price at which it had been received, either by not taking it out before the end of the six months, or by neglecting to pay one fourth or one half per cent.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Nay there is one death-doer, of the ancient Meot sort, who, with effort, has done even less and worse: slain a Deputy, and set all the Patriotism of Paris on edge!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

I searched its surface for an opening or a hatch, a "manhole," to use the official term; but the lines of rivets had been firmly driven into the sheet–iron joins and were straight and uniform.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

On an evening in July, 18–, as several youths, from twelve to eighteen years of age, were standing at the corner of a street in the little village of B——, Rufus Taylor, one of their companions, came up to them and said, “Come, boys, let’s go and take a cool bath—’tis terribly warm.”
— from The Deaf Shoemaker: To Which Are Added Other Stories for the Young by Philip Barrett

2620 'Twas time disorder fled, time justice reigned, And rightfully were held dominion's keys; Time pure religion's sceptre should return, By poesy extolled, by art adorned, With science and with reason reconciled; Time feeble earth her panacea found, Time health gave life its old longevity, Time pride should bend, time lust to love should yield, And self confess the joy of sacrifice.
— from Elias: An Epic of the Ages by Orson F. (Orson Ferguson) Whitney

[Pg 68] Cruelly deserted by the colonists, for whom he had done and suffered so much, he found gratitude amongst "worldly" statesmen and courtiers.
— from Three Apostles of Quakerism: Popular Sketches of Fox, Penn and Barclay by Benjamin Rhodes

I do not brag that I have bumbasted four hundred and seventeen since I came into this city, though it be but nine days ago; but this very morning I met with a good fellow, who, in a wallet such as Aesop's was, carried two little girls of two or three years old at the most, one before and the other behind.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 by François Rabelais

During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries it was a common practice to engrave these emblems of affection with some appropriate motto.
— from The Evolution of Fashion by Florence Mary Gardiner

Suppose that Parliament had given us a bill to put down the Roman Catholic Association, would such a law as that be a remedy for the state of things which I have already described to your Lordships as existing in Ireland?
— from Maxims and Opinions of Field-Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington, Selected From His Writings and Speeches During a Public Life of More Than Half a Century by Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of

It is claimed that the deceased suffered a sunstroke while in the Army, which so affected his mind that he wandered upon the railroad track and was killed in a fit of temporary insanity.
— from A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 3: Grover Cleveland, First Term by Grover Cleveland

2 The order first came to England in 1180, and was seated at a place called Witham Priory 3 in Somersetshire, to this day known as Charter-House Witham.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 by Various

The ministers were content with sending 400 men, with three or four vessels loaded with provisions and warlike stores, and convoyed by a frigate.
— from Montreal, 1535-1914. Vol. 1. Under the French Régime, 1535-1760 by William H. (William Henry) Atherton