My wounds gave me but little pain, so wonderfully and rapidly had the applications and injections of the female exercised their therapeutic powers, and so deftly had she bound and plastered the injuries.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

I will examine the Cavern below, and pervade the most secret recesses of the Sepulchre.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

He gave his bedding and mattress to one of the Lagoda's crew, who took it aboard his vessel as something which he had bought, and promised to keep it for him.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

You, like Vaśishṭha's evil brood, Shall make the flesh of dogs your food A thousand years in many a birth, And punished thus shall dwell on earth.”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

For it is the same God who promised both, and predicted that both would come to pass,—the God whom the pagan deities tremble before, as even Porphyry, the noblest of pagan philosophers, testifies.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

When the Alake or king of Abeokuta in West Africa dies, the principal men decapitate his body, and placing the head in a large earthen vessel deliver it to the new sovereign; it becomes his fetish and he is bound to pay it honours.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

In the following examination of different taxes, I shall seldom take much farther notice of this sort of inequality; but shall, in most cases, confine my observations to that inequality which is occasioned by a particular tax falling unequally upon that particular sort of private revenue which is affected by it.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

I am writing this chapter partly for the satisfaction of abusing that accomplished knave Billfinger, and partly to show whosoever shall read this how Americans fare at the hands of the Paris guides and what sort of people Paris guides are.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Some were weak enough to go to mass, in order to avoid banishment, and preserve their property; others removed, with all their effects, to different countries; and many neglected the time so long, that they were obliged to abandon all they were worth, and leave the marquisate in haste.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

"Well," I said, "leaving Joan of Arc and Boadicea aside, possibly those Russians and that Brighton woman looked like men, which it is certain you don't!"
— from A Boswell of Baghdad; With Diversions by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas

Without being a precisian, the blind man was usually exact in such matters.
— from Max Carrados by Ernest Bramah

1 Their father, a London man, and friend of Capel the eminent stockbroker, from having been clerk in a bank, became a partner, though he afterwards failed at a time of great commercial depression, both in this business and as a brewer.
— from Essays in Rationalism by Charles Robert Newman

In a perfect universe, that would be a perfect truth.
— from The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 by United States. Department of Defense

The man turned to Connie, "An' now, you kin roll up on the floor in yer blankets an' pertend to sleep while you try to figger a way out of this mess, or you kin set there in the chair an' figger, whichever you want.
— from Connie Morgan in the Fur Country by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx

I took them from the box and put them in water, sir.”
— from The Gold Bag by Carolyn Wells

They allowed Charles to die peacefully in his bed and permitted the Catholic James II to succeed his brother in 1685.
— from The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon

That, however, seems improbable, if Sir Redvers Buller was at the same time threatening a movement against the Tugela Heights, though it is certain that Joubert attached great importance to this attack on Ladysmith, because he had written a letter ordering De Villiers to capture Bester's Ridge, at all costs, with his commando of Free State Boers, and promising that those who succeeded in winning that position should be released from further service.
— from Four Months Besieged: The Story of Ladysmith by Henry H. S. Pearse

Charles Lamb and sister greatly befriend him and take to him; and he, with his hate of conventionalisms, loves those Lamb chambers and the whist parties, where he can go, in whatever slouch costume he may choose; poor Mary Lamb, too, perceiving that he has a husband-ish hankering after a certain female friend of hers—blows hot and cold upon it, in her quaint little notelets, with a delighted and an undisguised sense of being a party to their little game.
— from English Lands, Letters and Kings, vol. 4: The Later Georges to Victoria by Donald Grant Mitchell

The objection is, that they are old; but there would be some novelty in treating them as detached compositions, instead of beclouding and peopling the whole space in the style of the seventeenth century.
— from The Country House (with Designs) by Eastlake, Charles Lock, Sir