The allusion is to the system of dividing land into nine parts, each consisting of about 15 acres, the plot in the center being cultivated on behalf of the State by the tenants of the other eight.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

The belief that kings possess magical or supernatural powers by virtue of which they can fertilise the earth and confer other benefits on their subjects would seem to have been shared by the ancestors of all the Aryan races from India to Ireland, and it has left clear traces of itself in our own country down to modern times.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

[Clark, July 9, 1804] July the 9th Monday 1804 Sent one man back to the mouth of the River to mark a tree, to let the party on Shore See that the Boat had passed the river, Set out early passed (1) the head of the Island Situated in the middle of the river a Sand bar at the head, (2) passed the mouth of a Creek or Bayou on the S. S. leading from a large Pond of about three miles in length, at 8 oClock it commenced raining, the wind changed from N E. to S. W. (3) at 6 miles passed the mouth of a Small Creek on the L. S. called Monters Creek, the river at this place is wide with a Sand bar in the Middle, passed a place on the L. S. about 2 miles above the Creek, where Several french men camped two years to hunt—(4) passed a Island on the S S. of the river in a bend, opsd.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Having said these words, he invited the strangers into his house; his two sons and two daughters presented them with several sorts of sherbet, which they made themselves, with Kaimak enriched with the candied-peel of citrons, with oranges, lemons, pine-apples, pistachio-nuts, and Mocha coffee unadulterated with the bad coffee of Batavia or the American islands.
— from Candide by Voltaire

The condition of being of the wholes may be the elements; but the condition of our knowing the elements is our having already felt the wholes as wholes.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

“Can you be a coward?” continued Villefort, with increasing excitement, “you, who could count, one by one, the minutes of four death agonies?
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Has he not usurped, with equal avidity, the city of Bosphorus on the frozen Mæotis, and the vale of palm-trees on the shores of the Red Sea?
— 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

Let not us then find fault with the weed, with the hotness, coldness, or barrenness of the soil; but by seeing these things, remember our sin, Cursed be the ground "for thy sake"; for this God makes our "heaven as iron," and our "earth as brass" (Exo 26:19).
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

There was a clatter of blocks on the floor of the porch, followed by the soft click-click of the pieces of wood as the child put them together again from the heap into which they had fallen.
— from The Redemption of Kenneth Galt by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

The same thing is found to [Pg 7] happen in the case of birds: on the injured side sensation , or the power of responding to a stimulus, remains intact; while perception , or the power of mental recognition, is destroyed.
— from Mind and Motion and Monism by George John Romanes

Like Taliessin, Gwench'lan believes in the three cycles of being of the Druidic theology, and in the doctrine of metempsychosis.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 08, October, 1868, to March, 1869. by Various

[10-17] For they care not either for oaths or for hostages, even though the hostages chance to be the children or brothers of their leaders.
— from History of the Wars, Books III and IV The Vandalic War by Procopius

The vessels were delivered over to the authorities, and the young commander obtained leave of absence to visit his mother and sister at Bonnydale, for his 351 father came on board of the Vixen as soon as he heard the news of her arrival in command of his son.
— from On The Blockade by Oliver Optic

A Century of Bibles: or, the Authorized Version from 1611 to 1711; to which is added William Kilburne's Tract on Dangerous Errors in the late Printed Bibles, 1659; with Lists of Bibles in the British Museum, Bodleian, Stuttgart and other Libraries.
— from A Bibliography of Bibliography; Or, a Handy Book About Books Which Relate to Books by Joseph Sabin

page 458 Chapter XIX AUSTRALIA Sydney—Excursion to Bathurst—Aspect of the woods—Party of natives—Gradual extinction of the aborigines—Infection generated by associated men in health—Blue Mountains—View of the grand gulf-like valleys—Their origin and formation—Bathurst, general civility of the lower orders—State of society—Van Diemen's Land—Hobart Town—Aborigines all banished—Mount Wellington—King George's Sound—Cheerless aspect of the country—Bald Head, calcareous casts of branches of trees—Party of natives—Leave Australia.
— from Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage Round the World of H.M.S. Beagle Under the Command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N. by Charles Darwin

But, for at least one hundred yards, the channel or bed of this gorge was entirely filled up with the chaotic ruins of more than a million tons of earth and stone that had been artificially tumbled within it.
— from The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket Comprising the details of a mutiny and atrocious butchery on board the American brig Grampus, on her way to the South Seas, in the month of June, 1827. by Edgar Allan Poe

The subsequent additions, whether as cuts of birds or tail-pieces, are not so excellent as numerous—in this respect the reverse of the additions to the Quadrupeds.
— from A Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and Practical by Henry G. (Henry George) Bohn