For a month prior to the sacrifice, there is much feasting and intoxication, and dancing round the Meriah, who is adorned with garlands, etc., and, on the day before the performance of the barbarous rite, is stupefied with toddy, and made to sit, or, if necessary, is bound at the bottom of a post bearing the effigy above described.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

Lip-lip was White Fang’s own kind, and, being only a puppy, did not seem dangerous; so White Fang prepared to meet him in a friendly spirit.
— from White Fang by Jack London

As all the Persons who compose this lawless Assembly are masqued, we dare not attack any of them in our Way , lest we should send a Woman of Quality to Bridewell , or a Peer of Great-Britain to the Counter : Besides, that their Numbers are so very great, that I am afraid they would be able to rout our whole Fraternity, tho' we were accompanied with all our Guard of Constables.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

It is not a question of "subject and object," but of a particular species of animal which can prosper only by means of a certain exactness, or, better still, regularity in recording its perceptions (in order that experience may be capitalised)....
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Let the height of a rail be one third of the breadth of a panel, and its cymatium one sixth of the rail.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

He was a giant in stature—insolent, rapacious, filthy, had the gall of a bullock with the heart of a hyena and the brains of a peacock.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

99 The example of the poor, who purchased life by the sacrifice of all that can render life desirable, was gradually imitated by the feeble and the devout, who, in times of public disorder, pusillanimously crowded to shelter themselves under the battlements of a powerful chief, and around the shrine of a popular saint.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

In either case the remains of the red lather, together with the clippings of hair (and nails?) are received in a rolled-up yam-leaf ( daun k’ladi di-ponjut ) or cocoa-nut (?), and carried away and deposited at the foot of a shady tree, such as a banana (or a pomegranate?).
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

“Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I could gather together that I was able to avert another public exposure.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

It was this conviction, based on a principle, that carried our fathers through the Revolution, and gave to us that Constitution which was afterwards the work of their hands.
— from Fifty Notable Years Views of the Ministry of Christian Universalism During the Last Half-Century; with Biographical Sketches by John G. (John Greenleaf) Adams

The edict to rebuild the Temple on Mount Moriah, and to establish once more at Jerusalem the worship enjoined by Moses, called forth their utmost exertions in behalf of a prince who at least abandoned a rival religion, destined, as they apprehended, to supplant their own more ancient ritual.
— from Palestine, or, the Holy Land: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Michael Russell

(The concretions containing lime, which I have described at Ascension, as formed in a bed of ashes, present some degree of resemblance to this substance, but they have not a resinous fracture.
— from Volcanic Islands by Charles Darwin

Besides this, Demetrius, the bishop of Alexandria, although he had been his friend, had some reasons for not wishing to ordain him to be one of the clergy; and when Origen had been ordained a presbyter (or priest) in the Holy Land, where he was on a visit, Demetrius was very angry.
— from Sketches of Church History, from A.D. 33 to the Reformation by James Craigie Robertson

Stem diffuse or ascending, freely branched Orache, Atriplex patula. 9a.
— from The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State by Henry A. (Henry Allan) Gleason

" The secret negotiations with the publisher being thus discovered, no more was heard of Jordan, except that his papers were brought out at Paine's trial.
— from The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. 1. (of 2) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett by Moncure Daniel Conway

239 In ancient times, and now in the English Church, the title of Metropolitan (Archbishop) was confined to the chief bishop of a province; but in the Greek Church at the present day the title is given to many ordinary bishops.
— from The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Volumes 1 and 2 by Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq

There are some people (and this remark applies to both sexes) who would never be able to learn enough short-hand to be of any practical service.
— from Work for Women by George J. Manson

Today marks the beginning not only of a new administration, but of a period that will be eventful, perhaps decisive, for us and for the world.
— from U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses by United States. Presidents

'Why, that is a “biltreger,”' said he, 'and you waste your bowels on a pillow, or so forth.'
— from The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade