my good Christian reader, here is one of your own sworn witnessess testifying that the Essenes originated and established the Christian religion; i. e., the religion now known by that name.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

They led a life of pleasure and self-indulgence, followed the chase, revelled in every description of wild music and dancing, were terrible wine-bibbers, and addicted to the deep slumbers which follow heavy potations.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

No guess could tell what instrument appear'd, But all the soul of Music's self was heard; Harmonious concert rung in every part,
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

According to his statement the uktenas had their home in a deep valley between the heads of the Tuckasegee and the “northern branch of the lower Cheerake river” (i. e., the Little Tennessee), the valley being the deep defile of Nantahala, where, by reason of its gloomy and forbidding aspect, Cherokee tradition locates more than one legendary terror.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Just as we were sitting down to table we heard someone going downstairs to the table d’hote in the room where I had made Madame Stuard’s acquaintance, our door was open, and we could see the people on the stairs; and one of them seeing us gave a cry of joy, and came running in, exclaiming, “My dear papa!”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

With an expression of indescribable anguish he threw himself upon the body of the child, reopened its eyes, felt its pulse, and then rushed with him into Valentine’s room, of which he double-locked the door.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

For as the same object cannot, at the same time, be endowed with different qualities of the same sense, and as the same quality cannot resemble impressions entirely different; it evidently follows, that many of our impressions have no external model or archetype.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

With that he spurred his horse unto the sycamore, and blew the ivory horn so eagerly, that all the castle rang its echoes.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

Where among the fifty millions of these islands and within a dozen hours were we to lay hands on the three cleverest rogues in Europe?
— from The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

The fact is that the Jew is not usually a man of vast conceptions, nor is he endowed with great originality of mind; his skill consists rather in elaborating or in adapting other men's ideas and rendering them more effectual.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Military service age and obligation: 18 years of age for 12-month compulsory military service; when annual number of volunteers falls short of goal, compulsory recruitment is effected, including conscription of boys as young as 14; 15-19 years of age for voluntary premilitary service, provides exemption from further military service (2008)
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The lamprey eels of the lake district have very close representatives in Europe, but they cannot be identified.
— from The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Vol. XLIX April-October 1850 by Various

Willdenow, in naming this species, certainly recognized its edible qualities, and that children were fond of it, else he would not have called it an earth chestnut,— bulbo , bulb, and castanum from castanea , the chestnut.
— from The Nut Culturist A Treatise on Propogation, Planting, and Cultivation of Nut Bearing Trees and Shrubs Adapted to the Climate of the United States by Andrew S. (Andrew Samuel) Fuller

Keeping Aveline out of the water, I waded in and deposited her safely in the stern of the boat; then shouting to Captain Radford, I entreated him also to come on board.
— from The Golden Grasshopper: A story of the days of Sir Thomas Gresham by William Henry Giles Kingston

Under such circumstances, 431 could corn rise in exchangeable value with other things?
— from On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation by David Ricardo

All this had to seek an outlet somewhere, except in those rare instances where it maintains its downward course until, below the level of any open stream it can reach, it encounters an impervious stratum and must lose itself in the deep rocks.
— from Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 by Gerard Fowke

Mix as you do hominy croquettes, roll in egg and cracker, and fry in boiling lard.
— from Breakfast, Luncheon and Tea by Marion Harland

Here is a glimpse of the definition he would supply:— “As long as offices are open to all men and no constitutional rank is established, it is pure republicanism.”
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 13 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

Upon the close rolls is entered a writ tested at Westminster the 3rd of February, 39, H. III.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 573, October 27, 1832 by Various