The region, the little valley on whose side stands the Pentre Evan Cromlech, the finest in Britain, is believed to have been a favourite place with the ancient Druids; and in the oak groves which still exist there tradition says there was once a flourishing pagan school for neophytes, and that the cromlech instead of being a place for interments or for sacrifices was in those days completely enclosed, forming like other cromlechs a darkened chamber in which novices when initiated were placed for a certain number of days—the interior being called the ‘Womb or Court of Ceridwen’.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

[re] con ſegni vederia La reyna me reſpoſe era contento andaſſemo de Compania in çima duno alto monte doue era
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

They say also that when Mimnermus had written:— Happy’s the man who ’scapes disease and care, And dies contented in his sixtieth year Solon rebuked him, and said:— Be guided now by me, erase this verse, Nor envy me if I’m more wise than you.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

I knew it was not the ordinary croup—'false croup' as doctors call it—but the 'true croup'—and I knew that it was a deadly and dangerous thing.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

But I cared a great deal for the much more formidable person who was behind him, the bosom friend of Moriarty, the man who dropped the rocks over the cliff, the most cunning and dangerous criminal in London.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

The leaves are small and long, of a pale green colour, and deeply cut in on both sides, among which spring up a stalk which is small and round, containing small leaves upon it even to the top.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

In fortune-telling by cards, a diamond colour is the fairest; heart-colour , fair, but not so fair as the last; club colour , rather dark; spade colour , an extremely swarthy complexion.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Tum conversus Drusi animus, quando bene incepta male cedebant, ad dandam civitatem Italiae : quod cum moliens revertisset e foro, immensa 15 illa et incondita, quae eum semper comitabatur, cinctus multitudine in area domus suae cultello
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

It was certainly a doubtful charm, imparting a hard, metallic lustre to the child's character.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

How then is it that we never think thus: if it be necessary to prepare different environments for a bird and a reptile in order to ensure their liberty of movement, must it not be a mistake to provide the same form of liberty for our children as that proper to cats and dogs? Children, indeed, when left to themselves to take exercise, show impatience, and are prone to quarrel and cry; older children feel it necessary to invent something whereby they may conceal from themselves the intolerable boredom and humiliation of walking for walking's sake, and running for running's sake.
— from Spontaneous Activity in Education by Maria Montessori

CHURCH AND KING: Comprising—I. The Church and Dissent, considered in their Practical Influence ; showing the Connexion of Constitutional Monarchy with the Church, and the identity of the Voluntary Principle with Democracy.—II.
— from A Sketch of Assam: With some account of the Hill Tribes by Butler, John, Major

The lectures, which in these annual courses are delivered, comprehend in themselves the whole doctrines which belong to the circle of the four faculties.
— from The Student-Life of Germany by William Howitt

And with good reason. Granted some knowledge of sailing craft and decent care in navigation, absolute safety is assured for even the smallest craft.
— from Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Volume 85 January to June, 1906 by Various

" "Why?" "To wake me up before dawn so that I may begin to write on 'Cavalleria rusticana.'" The expenditure caused a dubious change in the monthly budget, but it was willingly allowed.
— from A Second Book of Operas by Henry Edward Krehbiel

"During what they call a dark change in the first act." "You mean the necklace was on before that change and gone when the lights were turned up again?" "Precisely." "And the position and actions of this man were suspicious to you?" "Extremely so."
— from The Man Who Couldn't Sleep by Arthur Stringer

Early in his career he had begun to observe the phenomena of cowpox, a disease common in the rural parts of the western counties of England, and he was familiar with the belief, current among the peasantry, that a person who had suffered from the cowpox could not take smallpox.
— from The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) by Various

Government economic priorities have included stabilizing the krona, reducing the current account deficit, containing inflation, restructuring the financial sector, and diversifying the economy.
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency