He attacks the people, stabbing them with his antlers and trampling them under foot, while their arrows glance harmlessly from his body, until “ the Meadow-lark, who was a great telltale, appeared and cried out, ‘There is just a little hole at his throat!’”
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Let him make authoritative the lawful customs of the inhabitants, just as they are stated to be” (Manu, Laws , vii.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Note 6 ( return ) [ The censure of Theophanes is just and pointed, (Chronograph.
— 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

At one of the altars in a side chapel worshipers knelt before a piece of the true cross; but the relics regarded as most precious in the custody of the Church of St. John, a thorn from the Savior's crown, portions of the [Pg 93] bones of three apostles, one of the stones cast at St. Stephen, the right foot of Lazarus, and a fragment of the cradle of the infant Jesus, are guarded with great care and rarely exposed to the gaze of curious eyes.
— from A Trip to the Orient: The Story of a Mediterranean Cruise by Robert Urie Jacob

His thoughts seem now chiefly bent on recovering his niece’s property from the clutches of the Italian Jesuits, and in exposing the method by which they acquired such dominion over the unhappy lady’s mind.
— from The New Abelard: A Romance, Volume 3 (of 3) by Robert Williams Buchanan

They were too low and traveling too fast for ack-ack to be very effective or accurate—and as for those Zeros, the American planes would take care of them in just a few minutes.
— from March Anson and Scoot Bailey of the U.S. Navy by Marshall McClintock

“I think it might occur to you , Lord Drumpipes,” she began, markedly addressing her remarks to the rightful bearer of the title, “that after what has happened—and on this point, I can assure you my father feels exactly as I do——” She stopped here, with the effect of appealing to her father for immediate confirmation of their inflexible joint attitude.
— from March Hares by Harold Frederic

It survives only in the compend of the ignorant Jordanes, a fact the like of which will be found repeatedly recurring in the sixth and following centuries, when a barbaric mentality continually prefers the compend to the larger and better original, which demands greater effort from the reader.
— from The Mediaeval Mind (Volume 1 of 2) A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in the Middle Ages by Henry Osborn Taylor

The élite of the legal profession, both among Jews and non-Jews (Vinaver, Sliosberg, Kalmanovich, Ratner, Sokolov, Kupernik, Zarudny, and others), assembled at Homel to plead the cause of the indicted Jews and to defend the action for damages brought by the Jewish pogrom victims.
— from History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume 3 [of 3] From the Accession of Nicholas II until the Present Day by Simon Dubnow

Great is the crime of those imbecile jurors and that false and hard-hearted judge, who thus, by an irreversible decree, consign a fellow-mortal to a death of violence and disgrace.
— from The Experiences of a Barrister, and Confessions of an Attorney by Samuel Warren