This animal cult expresses itself primarily in the attitude towards the totem animal, quite aside from special ceremonies and ceremonial festivities: not only each individual animal but every representative of the same species was to a certain degree a sanctified animal; the member of the totem was forbidden to eat the flesh of the totem animal or he was allowed to eat it only under special circumstances.
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

The evolution of religious thought in the Rigveda led to the conception of a creator distinct from any of the chief deities and superior to all the gods.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

The color deepened a shade in Christie's cheek, but she went on with no other sign of shyness; for with David she always spoke out frankly, because she could not help it.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

Chia Chen directed a servant to close the gate, and Chia Cheng first looked straight ahead of him towards the gate and espied on the same side as the main entrance a suite of five apartments.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

The day proved warm, 2 Chifs of Bands visited me to day—the hunters all returned without any thing, I collected a horse load of roots & 3 Sammon & Sent R Fields with one Indian to meet Capt Lewis at 4 oClock Set out with the other men to the river, passed thro a fine Pine Country decended a Steep ruged hill verry long to a Small river which comes from our left and I suppose it to be ____
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

“He’s drunk himself tipsy and now he pokes his nose into the cupboard!” cried Dashenka, angrily slamming the cupboard door.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

This melancholy of which we are to treat, is a habit, mosbus sonticus , or chronicus , a chronic or continuate disease, a settled humour, as [942] Aurelianus and
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

“If you do, I’ll kill you!” said Cassy, drawing a small, glittering stiletto, and flashing it before the eyes of the girl.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

For, in so far as we are intelligent beings, we cannot desire anything save that which is necessary, nor yield absolute acquiescence to anything, save to that which is true: wherefore, in so far as we have a right understanding of these things, the endeavour of the better part of ourselves is in harmony with the order of nature as a whole.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

Natalie’s dark color deepened a shade.
— from Miss or Mrs.? by Wilkie Collins

William Lowndes , a distinguished orator and patriot, of South Carolina, died at sea.
— from The Every Day Book of History and Chronology Embracing the Anniversaries of Memorable Persons and Events in Every Period and State of the World, from the Creation to the Present Time by Joel Munsell

The following fac-similes from the Hand-Book to the Dyce and Forster Collection , and from Forster's Life , illustrate the earlier, later, and latest handwritings of Charles Dickens as shown in the MSS.
— from A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land Together with Personal Reminiscences of the 'Inimitable Boz' Therein Collected by William R. (William Richard) Hughes

He lifted his hat and drew his fingers across his forehead where the perspiration stood in beads, resettled the hat at an angle to shade his face from the glare of the sun, ran two fingers cursorily between the cinch and Rabbit's sweaty body, picked up the stirrup, thrust in his toe and eased himself up into the saddle; and his mind had not consciously directed a single movement.
— from Starr, of the Desert by B. M. Bower

In these acts, as well as the two following, the conduct of the fable is in general just: at least it is most wonderfully improved since your first draught of the Tragedy: and yet the characters & dialogue are so managed as to render the whole cold, uninteresting, & totally destitute of that spirit essential to the success of the Drama.
— from A Pindarick Ode on Painting Addressed to Joshua Reynolds, Esq. by Thomas Morrison

But the gambrel-roofed house, though stately enough for college dignitaries and scholarly clergymen, was not one of those old Tory, Episcopal-church-goer's strongholds.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Come if you can, dear, and stay to dinner with us.
— from Teddy: Her Book A Story of Sweet Sixteen by Anna Chapin Ray

5. Bankers' Checks or Demand Drafts on Their Correspondents Abroad Form of Bankers' Check Bankers who do a foreign exchange business, keeping large balances in several European centers, are continually drawing and selling their demand drafts—‌"checks," they are called, or "demand"—‌upon these foreign balances.
— from Elements of Foreign Exchange: A Foreign Exchange Primer by Franklin Escher

When I am found out for what I am, or when the worst comes to the worst, I can drive a stupid ass, with his panniers filled with rubbish, as well as you do now, honest Francisco ?
— from The Parent's Assistant; Or, Stories for Children by Maria Edgeworth