Among the Inuit or Esquimaux of Bering Strait “the dead bodies of various animals must be treated very carefully by the hunter who obtains them, so that their shades may not be offended and bring bad luck or even death upon him or his people.”
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

The customs of merchants, which were established when the barbarous laws of Europe did not enforce the performance of their contracts, and which, during the course of the two last centuries, have been adopted into the laws of all European nations, have given such extraordinary privileges to bills of exchange, that money is more readily advanced upon them than upon any other species of obligation; especially when they are made payable within so short a period as two or three months after their date.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The threads might become loose or even destroyed; it mattered not.
— from My Sword's My Fortune: A Story of Old France by Herbert Hayens

Wimpole Street is here again described, with morning breaking over the housetops: “I see Betwixt the black fronts long-withdrawn A light blue lane of early dawn.”
— from A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam' by Alfred Gatty

The course, which lasted five weeks, consisted of drill, tactical exercises, physical training, musketry, bayonet fighting and bombing, lectures on esprit de corps—in fact everything that a Company Commander should know, but many things that in trench warfare had been forgotten.
— from The Fifth Leicestershire A Record Of The 1/5th Battalion The Leicestershire Regiment, T.F., During The War, 1914-1919. by John David Hills

Cycle, who is neither so young nor so handsome as Starlight, very gravely maintained, that all the perplexity may he avoided by leaping over eleven days in the reckoning; and, indeed, if it should come only to this, I think the new style is a delightful thing; for my mamma says I shall go to court when I am sixteen, and if they can but contrive often to leap over eleven days together, the months of restraint will soon be at an end.
— from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II by Samuel Johnson

8 The Eskimo about Behring Strait maintain that the dead bodies of various animals must be treated very carefully by the hunter who obtains them, so that their shades may not be offended and bring bad luck or even death upon him or his people.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

Course sometimes they have a good cause for keeping away, but lots of 'em do so because they dassen't go back.
— from Fred Fenton Marathon Runner: The Great Race at Riverport School by Allen Chapman

The window had grown by this time ‘a glimmering square,’ full of the blue light of early dawn.
— from Neighbours on the Green by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Little by little, our eyes did indeed grow used to the red light.
— from Atlantida by Pierre Benoît

[926] Moses blessed Joseph's tribe with the blessing that their possession might be the most fruitful and blessed land on earth; dew shall ever be there, and many wells spring up.
— from The Legends of the Jews — Volume 3 by Louis Ginzberg