Eight [ 252 ] of these, the five daily sacrifices ( mahāyajna ) and some other “baked offerings” (pākayajna), form part of the Gṛihya ceremonies, the rest belonging to the Çrauta ritual.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

The Sacraments of Admission, are but once to be used, because there needs but one Admission; but because we have need of being often put in mind of our deliverance, and of our Allegeance, The Sacraments of Commemoration have need to be reiterated.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

I see also in your open desk there that you have a sheet of stamps and a thick bundle of post-cards.
— from The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

Never is a girl {313} more tender or quiet, never more spiritual and attractive, nor more inclined to good sense, than in the beginning of puberty, generally a little before the menstrual periods have begun, or have become properly ordered.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

To MUG UP is to paint one’s face, or arrange the person to represent a particular character; to CORPSE , or to STICK , is to balk, or put the other actors out in their parts by forgetting yours.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

A third tells you that there are no such things as virtue and vice, and that moral good and evil are chimeras; while a fourth informs you that men are only beasts of prey, and may conscientiously devour one another.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

—They now proceeded towards Bithynia, where reigned the blind old prophet-king Phineus, son of Agenor.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

Article 8 shows that all this was intended to be only preliminary to the removal of the whole Cherokee Nation from the east of the Mississippi, a consummation toward which the Jackson administration and the state of Georgia immediately began to bend every effort.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

The stretch of high land between the Sierra Nevada and the sea, about nineteen miles long and eleven broad, is "so rudely broken into rugged hill and deep ravine, that it would be hard to find in its whole surface a piece of level ground, except in the small valley of Andarax and on the belt of plain which intervenes betwixt the mountains and the sea.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

A bow of ribbon, or an aigrette of feathers, will add effectively the crown of braids or puffs which a wise woman with a square jaw will surmount her brow if she wishes to subdue the too aggressive, fighting qualities of her strong chin.
— from What Dress Makes of Us by Dorothy Quigley

It must be recorded of the latter that he had made a prompt offer to Miss Brancker of pecuniary help in case funds should be needed to defray the cost of her brother's defence; but, as we have seen, thanks to the action of Edward Hazaldine, nothing of the kind was required.
— from The Heart of a Mystery by T. W. (Thomas Wilkinson) Speight

England can only derive profit from wars waged between other peoples.
— from Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked by C. H. Thomas

Gilbert White was all his life trying to determine whether or not swallows passed the winter in a torpid state in the mud at the bottom of ponds and marshes, and he died ignorant of the truth that they do not.
— from A Year in the Fields by John Burroughs

To the whole human family must the benison go,—adding especially that most precious of all, the benison of Peace.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 18 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

Stating these facts, the indignant physician cautioned readers to beware of purchasing a work which, so far as he was concerned, was nothing less than a fraud on the public.
— from Blind Love by Wilkie Collins

To him, owls are birds of peculiar fascination and surpassing interest.
— from Jungle Folk: Indian Natural History Sketches by Douglas Dewar

Frederick, the son–in–law of James, was crowned King of Bohemia in October, 1619, but after a very brief tenure he was dethroned in 1620, and after the battle of Prague fled to Holland.
— from A History of Lancashire by Henry Fishwick