( De Groot , I. 31-32.)—H. C.] There can be little doubt that these latter customs are symbols of the ancient sacrifices of human beings and valuable property on such occasions; so Manetho states that the Egyptians in days of yore used human sacrifices, but a certain King Amosis abolished them and substituted images of wax.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

If I met Robert Audley in those lonely gardens, as I—" The current of her thoughts was interrupted by a cautious knocking at her door.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

But that would be a cruel kindness, and I dare not do it.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

But by now the fame of this fierce war spread through all Christendom, and when the Pope heard thereof he sent a Bull, and charged King Arthur to make peace with Lancelot, and receive back Queen Guinevere; and for the offence imputed to her absolution should be given by the Pope.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

; Sir William Sanctlo, and Sir William Sanctlo, father and son; Eleanor, daughter to Sir Thomas Butler; Lord Sudley; John Southworth; Nicholas Harpsfield, esquire; Thomas Sanderford, or Sommerford, alderman; Alexander Cheyney; Walter Dawbeney; George Fastolph, son to Hugh Fastolph; Robert Liade; Thomas Benolt, alias Clarenciaulx, king at arms, 1534; William Hollis, mayor, 1540; John Fauconbridge, esquire, 1545; Hacket, gentleman of the king’s chapel; Sir Andrew Jud, mayor, 1551; Sir William Pickering, and Sir William Pickering, father and son; William Bond, alderman, 1567; Sir Thomas Gresham, mercer, 1579; William Skegges, sergeant poulter; Richard Gresham, son to Sir Thomas Gresham, 1564.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Pin on more lengths close to them, the inner threads of which are held by a "collecting knot", as the flat double knot is called when it is made over more than two threads (see also fig.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

The Toadeater Of Lordly acquaintance you boast, And the Dukes that you dined wi' yestreen, Yet an insect's an insect at most, Tho' it crawl on the curl of a Queen! H2 anchor Divine Service In The Kirk Of Lamington As cauld a wind as ever blew, A cauld kirk, an in't but few: As cauld a minister's e'er spak; Ye'se a' be het e'er I come back.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

[99] 'seeing' here what one knows a priori by the causes; and 'believing' what one only judges by the effects, even though the one be as certainly known as the other.
— from Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von

Wolfram knew and disapproved of Chrétien’s version of the Perceval ; and said the story had been far better told by a certain Kyot, a singer of Provence.
— from The Mediaeval Mind (Volume 1 of 2) A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in the Middle Ages by Henry Osborn Taylor

The village sweeper breaks a cocoanut, kills a couple of fowls and sprinkles a little liquor near the pile.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 3 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

He armed his little army with mops, brooms, and carving knives, and, playing on an old frying-pan, marched them out to war.
— from Private Spud Tamson by R. W. Campbell

The Kirk of Lamington As cauld a wind as ever blew, A caulder kirk, and in't but few; As cauld a minister's e'er spak', Ye'se a' be het ere
— from Scotch Wit and Humor by W. H. (Walter Henry) Howe

"We are all brothers in misfortune; we ought to be as close knit as the strands of a rope.
— from In Clive's Command: A Story of the Fight for India by Herbert Strang

He had lingered here to rest after a long ramble in Brittany, and he had an affection for the steep narrow streets and quaint old houses, with their all-pervading aspect of the seventeenth century, the days of Bourbons and Condés, kings and warriors, princely priests and priestly politicians.
— from Wyllard's Weird: A Novel by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

All that can be done is to gather up the fragments which time has spared; to arrange them in something like order, and present them faithfully to the general reader, who, it is hoped, will feel a certain degree of interest in them severally, as matters of archeology, and who will probably further find that he obtains from them in combination a fair notion of the general character and condition of the race, of its mingled barbarism and civilization, knowledge and ignorance, art and rudeness, luxury and simplicity of habits.
— from The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2: Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. by George Rawlinson