Spear-finger had such powers over stone that she could easily lift and carry immense rocks, and could cement them together by merely striking one against another.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

In holyday clothes, we say, are the innumerable Citoyens and Citoyennes: the weather is of the brightest; cheerful expectation lights all countenances.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Enter in conquest with drum and colours, Edmund, Lear and Cordelia as prisoners; Officers, Soldiers, &c. EDMUND.
— from The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare

Whether we have to deal with the wide-spread fallacy of the primitive Golden Age, characterised mainly by the absence of any distinction between mine and thine ; or whether we take the more sophisticated view, which postulates stages of individual search for food, and of isolated household catering; or if we consider for the moment the numerous theories which see nothing in primitive economics but simple pursuits for the maintenance of existence—in none of these can we find reflected even a hint of the real state of affairs as found in the Trobriands; namely, that the whole tribal life is permeated by a constant give and take ; that every ceremony, every legal and customary act is done to the accompaniment of material gift and counter gift; that wealth, given and taken, is one of the main instruments of social organisation, of the power of the chief, of the bonds of kinship, and of relationship in law.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Al igual que en la meseta de Méjico y en los altos valles, altozanos, sierras bajas y collados que se alzan al pie de la cordillera en la América Central, Colombia, Ecuador y Perú, aquí se ven hermosas tierras de pastoreo, adecuadas para la cría del ganado, producción de granos y frutas propias de las zonas templadas.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

E poi che, per la sete del martiro, ne la presenza del Soldan superba predico` Cristo e li altri che 'l seguiro, e per trovare a conversione acerba troppo la gente e per non stare indarno, redissi al frutto de l'italica erba, nel crudo sasso intra Tevero e Arno da Cristo prese l'ultimo sigillo, che le sue membra due anni portarno.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Paradiso by Dante Alighieri

It has lighter duties by night, when the City empties like a church after service, but during the day it has vast cares and responsibilities, the duty of regulating the congested street traffic in the narrow City thoroughfares being perhaps the most onerous.
— from Mysteries of Police and Crime, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Arthur Griffiths

In a little open carriage—the taxis have long ago all gone to the War—in an absurd little open carriage, exactly like a Cheltenham "rat," I depart like a lady of Cheltenham, for the Hôtel de la Poste.
— from A Journal of Impressions in Belgium by May Sinclair

Her eyes had a curious exploring look and Clavering felt unaccountably irritated, in spite of all that her words implied.
— from Black Oxen by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

So we asked Mamma about it when we went in, and she showed us an account of it, in which we found that it is not at all common everywhere, like a crow; but that it only lives in the cliffs of Cornwall, Devonshire, and Wales; and has sometimes, but rarely, been seen about Beachy Head, and in no other part of Europe, excepting the Alps.
— from Live Toys; Or, Anecdotes of Our Four-Legged and Other Pets by Emma Davenport