Thus just as in Africa the leaves of one parasitic plant are supposed to render the wearer invulnerable, so in Cambodia a decoction made from another parasitic plant is considered to render the same service to such as make use of it, whether by drinking or washing.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

He devoured them to the very last, ransacked every corner, all the furniture, all the drawers, behind the walls, sobbing, crying aloud, distraught, mad.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

securely, safely; with care and diligence, Mar. 14.44.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting " STOP .
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

“What were you thinking you could afford?” demanded Miss Patty, ceasing not to knit.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

[6409] Whose religion at this day is mere policy, a state wholly composed of superstition and wit, and needs nothing but wit and superstition to maintain it, that useth colleges and religious houses to as good purpose as forts and castles, and doth more at this day by a company of scribbling parasites, fiery-spirited friars, zealous anchorites, hypocritical confessors, and those praetorian soldiers, his Janissary Jesuits, and that dissociable society, as [6410] Languis terms it, postremus diaboli conatus et saeculi excrementum , that now stand in the fore front of the battle, will have a monopoly of, and engross all other learning, but domineer in divinity,
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

It is full rather of fallings-away from civilization and dim memories from civilized spheres
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

“With such fine promises did Brea persuade me to leave my native country to come and dishonour myself here, for though everybody treats me as if I were his wife, it is probably known that I am only his mistress.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

From an indenture between the University of Oxford and the Town, dated 1459, we find that the Privilege embraced: "The Chaunceller, alle doctours, maistres, other graduats, alle studients, alle scholers, and alle clerkes, dwellyng within the precint of the Universite, of what condicion, ordre or degree soever they be, every dailly continuell servant to eny of theym bifore rehersed belonging, the styward of the Universite wyth their menyall men, also alle Bedells with their dailly servants and their householdes, all catours, manciples, spencers, cokes, lavenders, povere children of scolers or clerkes, within the precinct of the said Universite, also alle other servants taking clothing or hyre by the yere, half yere, or quarter of the yere takyng atte leste for the yere vi. shillings and viij.
— from The Customs of Old England by F. J. (Frederick John) Snell

The doob is not to be found every where; but, in the low countries about Dacca, Mahomedpoor, &c. where the inundation is general during near three months every year, this grass abounds; attaining to a prodigious luxuriance!
— from The East India Vade-Mecum, Volume 1 (of 2) or, complete guide to gentlemen intended for the civil, military, or naval service of the East India Company. by Thomas Williamson

But what I wish to point out is that while a poet can write verses so splendid in sound and colour as those that I have quoted, even such a composition as "Dolores" must be preserved, with all its good and bad, among the treasures of English verse.
— from Pre-Raphaelite and other Poets by Lafcadio Hearn

In spite of numerous wars, bloodshed, and disaster, England always emerges smoothly and easily from her military crises and settles down to new conditions and surroundings in her usual cool and deliberate manner....
— from The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage by Norman Angell

An unfavorable sequence of weather might bring about drastic reduction of the population without causing any direct mortality.
— from Life History and Ecology of the Five-Lined Skink, Eumeces fasciatus by Henry S. (Henry Sheldon) Fitch

Centeotl, Mexican maize-god, 134 Central Africans, death myth of, 151 Centzon Mimizcoa, Mexican name for the star-spirits, 211 Cephalus as sun, 50 Cerberus, dog guardian of Latin Hades, 44 Ceremonies representing details of myths, 87 Cherokee Indians, culture myth of, 150 Chiapas Indians, culture myth of, 150 Chicomecohuatl, Mexican maize-goddess, 299 Childhood, conservatism of, 64 Childhood of Fiction , Macculloch's, 222 Chinese creation myth, 166 - 167 , 193 Chinook Indians, myths of, 31 , 300 - 304 ; beast myth of, 145 ; myth of journey through Underworld of, 155 ; food of the dead myth of, 155 ; idea of after-life among, 213 - 214 ; mythic system of, 300 - 304 Chippeway Indian belief in after-life, 212 Choctaw Indians, myths of, 304 ; creation myth of, 306 - 307 ; Paradise of, 307 ; priests of, 308 Cingalese, soul myth of, 152 Cipactli animal in Mexican myth, 98 Classification of myth, 138 et seq.
— from An Introduction to Mythology by Lewis Spence

On the descent are unusual panoramic views of castellated cliffs and deep mountain gorges, with the usual magic desert colouring.
— from Seeing the West: Suggestions for the Westbound Traveller by K. E. M. (Kate Ethel Mary) Dumbell

She had conceived a strong fancy to the girl, who secretly shrank from her, and bore herself toward her in a cold and distant manner.
— from Elsie Marley, Honey by Joslyn Gray

Certainly, though it is but one of ten important and excellent methods of acquiring wealth in an honourable way, a careful and diligent man can attain this result in no easier way than by mining.
— from De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georg Agricola