things against harm; ( b ) safeguarding of the weak—women children and common people generally—from the powerful mana (magical influence) of chiefs and priests; ( c ) providing against the dangers incurred by handling or coming in contact with corpses, by eating certain food, etc.; ( d ) guarding the chief acts of life—births, initiation, marriage and sexual functions—against interference; ( e ) securing human beings against the wrath or power of gods and spirits [34] ; ( f ) securing unborn infants and young children who stand in a specially sympathetic relation with their parents, from the consequence of certain actions, and more especially from the communication of qualities supposed to be derived from certain foods.
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

—Es verdad que hasta hace poco nuestro caucho se cotizaba a precios casi prohibitivos; pero esa alza fué pasajera.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

the nativs requested the party to dance which they very readily consented and Peter Cruzat played on the Violin and the men danced Several dances & retired to rest in the houses of the 1st and Second Cheif.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

[4] To make up for this—and to pass straight from Plymouth to Cadiz and Seville—I found in Spain that the warmth of climate and passions caused people to overlook a little the necessary measure of restraint.
— from On Love by Stendhal

Twice he blundered in his play, and the President of the Council was at a loss to understand how his friend, Paul Ivanovitch, lately so good and so circumspect a player, could perpetrate such a mauvais pas as to throw away a particular king of spades which the President has been “trusting” as (to quote his own expression) “he would have trusted God.”
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

“Oh!” said the kindly cardinal, “a poet cannot possibly write without professing to be in love.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

permission: concēdō , allow , permittō , committō , potestātem faciō , veniam dō , sinō , nōn patior .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Ptolemy has a city in that part, called Caliga; and Pliny Calingæ proximi mari.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

We can not say that, in constituting a polity, certain provisions ought to be made for Order and certain others for Progress, since the conditions of Order, in the sense now indicated, and those of Progress, are not opposite, but the same.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

But conflicting interests, keen rivalry in their pursuit, difference of culture and natural aptitude, and all or much of the individuality which language and literature, historical and religious traditions, even climatic and physical conditions produce are bound to survive until the coming of some more overwhelming and far-spreading revolution than this.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

The best of such Psychics, as shown by Galton, can also perceive colours produced by the vibrations of musical instruments, every note suggesting a different colour.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 3 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

Now that is what I say creation and providence cannot prove.
— from Theism; being the Baird Lecture of 1876 by Robert Flint

A century ago Prestonkirk churchyard possessed an ancient statue of St. Baldred.
— from A Calendar of Scottish Saints by Michael Barrett

Certain humble plants, in some of which the foliage leaves present a superficial resemblance to those of a four-leaved clover, are popularly called pepperworts; by botanists, Rhizocarpeæ or Marsiliaceæ .
— from The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 by Various

Four Years in Rebel Capitals FOUR YEARS IN REBEL CAPITALS: AN INSIDE VIEW OF LIFE IN THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY, FROM BIRTH TO DEATH FROM ORIGINAL NOTES, COLLATED IN THE YEARS 1861 TO 1865, By T. C. DeLeon , AUTHOR OF "CREOLE AND PURITAN," "CROSS PURPOSES," "JUNY," ETC.
— from Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death by T. C. (Thomas Cooper) De Leon

This plant, which is called Achyla prolífera, consists principally of threads so exceedingly fine as to be imperceptible to the naked eye, but which take root in the body of the fish, as the mistletoe grows on the apple tree, and in time produce a soft downy substance like mould, that first appears on the gills and tail, but gradually covers the whole body of the fish.
— from The Lady's Country Companion; Or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally by Mrs. (Jane) Loudon