Communicated by Dr. Cleghorn.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Again, from the above ideas it follows that if you call a soul in the right way it will hear and obey you, and you will thus be able either to recall to its owner’s body a soul which is escaping ( riang sĕmangat ), or to abduct the soul of a person whom you may wish to get into your power ( mĕngambil sĕmangat orang ), and induce it to take up its residence in a specially prepared receptacle, such as ( a ) a lump of earth which has been sympathetically connected by direct contact with the bod
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

THE PHI PROPORTION EC is 1.618033, &c., times size of AB, CD BC, DE CD, &c., AC=CD BD=DE, &c. 290 Testing this proportion on the reproductions of pictures in this book in the order of their appearing, we find the following remarkable results: "Los Meninas," Velazquez, page 60
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

The magazines include: Administrative Management, Aging, Changing Times, The Atlantic, Canadian Business, Datamation, Cosmopolitan, Dun's Business Month, The Economist, The Futurist, High Technology Business, Journal of Small Business Management,
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

Their extinction by massacre is nearly all that can be discovered concerning them.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

The national coin receives its movement and direction from the commodities circulated within the precincts of each particular country; the money in the mercantile republic, from those circulated between different countries.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

[1202] Cardan holds; They will make strange noises in the night, howl sometimes pitifully, and then laugh again, cause great flame and sudden lights, fling stones, rattle chains, shave men, open doors and shut them, fling down platters, stools, chests, sometimes appear in the likeness of hares, crows, black dogs, &c. of which read
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

In thine abode so high Where yet one scarce can breathe, Dear child, most tenderly A soft song thou dost wreathe.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

Yet he consented to forgive their revolt; and the senators repaid his clemency by despatching circular letters to their tenants and vassals in the provinces of Italy, strictly to enjoin them to desert the standard of the Greeks, to cultivate their lands in peace, and to learn from their masters the duty of obedience to a Gothic sovereign.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

This book [ Rinaldo de Montalban ], and all others written on French matters, shall be deposited in some dry place ... except one called Bernardo del Carpio , and another called Roncesvalles , which shall certainly accompany the rest on the bonfire.—Cervantes, Don Quixote , I. i. 6 (1605).
— from Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 3 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

These authorities are further supplemented in that the state legislature is more or less able to make up for differences between rich and poor districts and between the city and the country, besides directly carrying on certain normal schools in which the teachers for the elementary and grammar schools are trained.
— from The Americans by Hugo Münsterberg

The new widow Clare had engaged a maid in New York, and fell into her part with charming ease and a very pretty assumption of authority; and the real widow, in her plain dress and pensive, quiet manners, realized effectively the idea of a cultivated but dependent companion.
— from Winter Evening Tales by Amelia E. Barr

The latter volume contained, as has been seen, nearly the last impression of century-old pictorial types in the mediæval conventional manner; the Cologne Bible defined conceptions of Scriptural scenes anew, and these conceptions became conventional, and re-appeared for generations in other illustrated Bibles in all parts of Europe; not, however, because of an immobility of mind characteristic of the community, as in earlier times, but partly because the printers preserved and exchanged old wood-blocks, so that the same designs from the same blocks appeared in widely distant cities, and partly because it was less costly for them to employ an inferior workman to copy the old cut, with slight variations, than to have an artist of original inventive power to design a wholly new series.
— from A History of Wood-Engraving by George Edward Woodberry

When Teresa abandoned the child Blanca, Doña Carmen became a mother to her.
— from El Estudiante de Salamanca and Other Selections by José de Espronceda

The next consideration is the atmosphere in which a child can best develop character by means of these experiences.
— from The Child under Eight by E. R. (Elsie Riach) Murray

Lady Thomson smiled in calm but deep contempt.
— from The Invader: A Novel by Margaret L. (Margaret Louisa) Woods

The river came brimming down, clear and cool, the tiny weeds swaying among the dark pools, the rushes bowing and bending, as though plucked by unseen hands.
— from Beside Still Waters by Arthur Christopher Benson