Country-seats, cottages, habitations of whichever kind, were burnt.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Deceit may serve for a need, but he only confesses himself overcome who knows he is neither subdued by policy nor misadventure, but by dint of valour, man to man, in a fair and just war.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

The child has on white knitted clothes.
— from Modern Icelandic Plays Eyvind of the Hills; The Hraun Farm by Jóhann Sigurjónsson

“Oh, yes,” she said, without ceasing her occupation, “we know Mr. Meredith.”
— from With Edged Tools by Henry Seton Merriman

And each woman, with cruel hands or with kind, presses deep the imprint of her hold upon his plastic clay.
— from Motherhood and the Relationships of the Sexes by C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine) Hartley

If a bondman commit homicide of whatever kind, it is right for the lord of the bondman to pay for the deed of his bondman as for a murderer, for he is a murderer.
— from Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law Being an Essay Supplemental to (1) 'The English Village Community', (2) 'The Tribal System in Wales' by Frederic Seebohm

For according to your custom, he only who kindles the council fire, has a right to cover it up."
— from An Account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha, or Red Jacket, and His People, 1750-1830 by John Niles Hubbard