It is stated 17 that “the maternal uncle’s or paternal aunt’s daughter is claimed as a matter of right by a boy, so that a boy of ten may be wedded to a mature woman of twenty or [ 301 ] twenty-five years, if she happens to be unmarried and without issue.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

And there be other that men clept Nestorians.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

—[Just as I am finishing this book an unfortunate dispute has sprung up between Dr. Jameson and his officers, on the one hand, and Colonel Rhodes on the other, concerning the wording of a note which Colonel Rhodes sent from Johannesburg by a cyclist to Jameson just before hostilities began on the memorable New Year’s Day.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

The branches of the main arteries of one side form numerous anastomoses in the muscles and in the cellular and adipose tissue generally.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

He began to be frightfully jealous of everything about Clara: of her past, of her babies, of the men and women who flocked to drink deep of her cool kindness and rest their tired minds as at an absorbing play.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

Nor less, I trust, To them I may have owed another gift, Of aspect more sublime; that blessed mood, In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world Is lighten'd:—that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on, Until, the breath of this corporeal frame, And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul: While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.
— from Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems (1798) by William Wordsworth

I soon found out what all this meant, and what was the business of these men at the chateau.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

But as the invasion of the plateau could only be made by the left bank of the Mercy, it was sufficient to oppose the colpeos on the narrow bank between the river and the cliff of granite.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

Its remains, which show it to have been a place of very great strength, are to be seen near the modern village of Alfidena, on a hill on the left bank of the modern Sangro.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

Even had there been a disposition to turn the matter into ridicule, it must have been repressed and overpowered by the solemn presence of men no less dignified than the governor, and several of his counsellors, a judge, a general, and the ministers of the town, all of whom sat or stood in a balcony of the meeting-house, looking down upon the platform.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The sort of detail that he presses is that at certain seasons the same hymn ought to be sung on Sunday morning and every morning throughout the week, because of the mediaeval system of octaves.
— from The Upton Letters by Arthur Christopher Benson

Before the fire is kindled, and you stand, perhaps (as Harry and his friend did on the present occasion) shivering in the cold, the heart sinks, and sad, gloomy thoughts arise, while your eye endeavours to pierce the thick darkness, which, if it succeed in doing so, only adds to the effect by disclosing the pallid snow, the cold, chilling beams of the moon, the white vistas of savage scenery, the awe-inspiring solitudes that tell of your isolated condition, or stir up sad memories of other and far-distant scenes.
— from The Young Fur Traders by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

And yet how many university dons could we name, whose saintly and scholarly lives, long hours spent in teaching, and nightly burnings of the midnight oil give the lie to such a sweeping assertion!
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

Being of the Mexican race and knowing the country so thoroughly, I am of most value as a seeker after information.
— from The Texan Star: The Story of a Great Fight for Liberty by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

At one time it was hoped that dhobi work might prove a useful [318] occupation for those boys of the Mission who do not shape into carpenters.
— from India and the Indians by Edward Fenton Elwin

She carries all the baggage on the march, as well as the children.
— from The Family among the Australian Aborigines, a Sociological Study by Bronislaw Malinowski

"I might as well make a clean breast of the matter," he muttered.
— from Under Padlock and Seal by Harold Avery

Conversely, the buyer of this machine has not, by its purchase, newly obtained possession of his fixed capital, for he had this fixed capital in hand even before the purchase, in the form of a certain amount of cash.
— from The Accumulation of Capital by Rosa Luxemburg

Kh ayru’lláh, who had chosen to uphold the banner of his rebellion in America for no less than twenty years, and who had the temerity to denounce, in writing, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, His “false teachings, His misrepresentations of Bahaism, His dissimulation,” and to stigmatize His visit to America as “a death-blow” to the “Cause of God,” met his death soon after he had uttered these denunciations, utterly abandoned and despised by the entire body of the members of a community, whose founders he himself had converted to the Faith, and in the very land that bore witness to the multiplying evidences of the established ascendancy of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Whose authority he had, in his later years, vowed to uproot.
— from God Passes By by Effendi Shoghi