And from the fact that besides the scholar class the rest of the community consisted of agriculturists, artisans, and merchants, whose knowledge was that of their fathers and grandfathers, inculcated in the sons and grandsons as it had been in them, showing them how to carry on in the same groove the calling to which Fate had assigned them, a departure from which would have been considered ‘unfilial’—unless, of course (as it very rarely did), it went the length of attaining through study of the classics a place in the official class, and thus shedding eternal lustre on the family—it will readily be seen that there was nothing to cause education to be concerned with any but one or two of the subjects Page 38 which are included by Western peoples under that designation.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

Mr. Franklin, on following his cousin out, informed the Sergeant that all his clothes were open to examination, and that nothing he possessed was kept under lock and key.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

That the kind of infidelity she thought so terrible, was, in itself, absolutely indifferent; that all the morality of conjugal faith consisted in opinion, the contentment of husbands being the only reasonable rule of duty in wives; consequently that concealed infidelities, doing no injury, could be no crime; in a word, he persuaded her that the sin consisted only in the scandal, that woman being really virtuous who took care to appear so.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The old man’s remark about the cattle-pen refers to the Malagasy custom of placing a new-born child at the entrance to a cattle-pen, and then driving the cattle over it, to see whether they would trample on it or not.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

She returned for it, was seized by the gang, carried out into the stream, gagged, brutally treated, and finally taken to the shore at a point not far from that at which she had originally entered the boat with her parents.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

The acrimonious and personal polemics of the socialist leaders bred ill-feeling among their workingmen followers; the invective and abuse filling the periodical literature of the socialist groups found an echo in the assemblies of the workingmen; the mutual hatreds separating politically Allemanists from Guesdists, Guesdists from anarchists, were carried over into the syndicats which were hindered thereby in their growth or entirely driven to disintegration.
— from Syndicalism in France by Lewis L. (Lewis Levitzki) Lorwin

After seeing what the men were capable of in the skirt line, I was not surprised that the shepherd-folk out on the plains began by asking my guide with great interest if I were a man or a woman.
— from Through the Land of the Serb by M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham

Spelling/printing errors were corrected only if the same word was used correctly elsewhere in the text.
— from Adventures and Reminiscences of a Volunteer; Or, A Drummer Boy from Maine by George T. Ulmer

A few cases of inaccurate typesetting such as misplaced words or lines have been corrected.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

I have sometimes asked a man whether he knew So-and-So, who hails, like himself, from Melbourne, and he has replied, 'We came over in the same ship'—'Only that, and nothing more,' as the poet puts it; but his tone has an unmistakable significance, and one perceives at once that the topic had better not be pursued.
— from Some Private Views by James Payn

A dâk hurkarah (post messenger) had been carried off in the same spot two days before, probably by the same family of tigers, which according to the bearer's account, consisted of two old ones, and three cubs.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 549 (Supplementary number) by Various

It comes out in the sailing of the ship, Shane.
— from The Wind Bloweth by Donn Byrne

He answered, Because I know the evil that you will do to the children of Israel: their strongholds will you set on fire, and their young men will you kill with the sword, and will dash in pieces their little ones, and rip up their women with child.
— from The World English Bible (WEB), Complete by Anonymous

In case of an unsuccessful attack, the assailants were like to be totally cut off in the swamps.
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume II. by Walter Scott

In 1620, Tracy booked fifty colonists, twelve of whom were women, to come over in the Supply .
— from Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century by Annie Lash Jester