A rarely-mentioned demon is Svarbhānu, who is described as eclipsing the sun with darkness.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

Now in the Alexandrian calendar, which Plutarch used, these four days corresponded to the thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth of November, and this date answers exactly to the other indications given by Plutarch, who says that at the time of the festival the Nile was sinking, the north winds dying away, the nights lengthening, and the leaves falling from the trees.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

This will become still clearer, if we add the consideration—(equally important though less obvious)—that the rustic, from the more imperfect development of his faculties, and from the lower state of their cultivation, aims almost solely to convey insulated facts, either those of his scanty experience or his traditional belief; while the educated man chiefly seeks to discover and express those connections of things, or those relative bearings of fact to fact, from which some more or less general law is deducible.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

But when the Persian host poured down to Phalerum, covering the whole sea-shore, and the king himself was seen with all his forces, coming down to the beach with the infantry, the Greeks forgot the words of Themistokles, and began to cast eager glances towards the Isthmus and to be angry with any one who proposed to do anything else than withdraw.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

I described, and enforced them earnestly.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

How much more docile and easy to be governed, both by the laws of religion and civil polity, are simple and incurious minds, than those over-vigilant wits, that will still be prating of divine and human causes!
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Klyauzov hurriedly got down and embraced Tchubikov.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The principal sources of supply up to that time were the Dutch East Indies, Arabia, Haiti, and Jamaica; and most of the business was in the hands of Dutch and English traders.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

“Well, we were gradually fading toward a better land, on account of the daily loss of sleep; so we finally had the expert up again, and he ran a wire to the outside of the door, and placed a switch there, whereby Thomas, the butler, always made one little mistake—he switched the alarm off at night when he went to bed, and switched it on again at daybreak in the morning, just in time for the cook to open the kitchen door, and enable that gong to slam us across the house, sometimes breaking a window with one or the other of us.
— from The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories by Mark Twain

3 ⁄ 4 lb., by digestion for some hours; the solution is evaporated nearly to dryness, and the residuum redissolved in warm water; to this solution, after filtration, a solution of phosphate of soda is added as long as a precipitate forms; this last is collected on a filter, washed with cold water, and mixed, whilst still moist, with 8 times its weight of fresh-precipitated hydrate of alumina; the paste is then dried, and exposed to a cherry-red heat in a crucible, after which the mass is cooled and reduced to a very fine powder.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

It was this: Everybody knows that, at any of the barrières leading from Paris, a large crowd of blouses, men and of office, women and children of the lower orders, may, in fair or foul weather, always be found—loiterers, having nothing to do, apparently, except to lounge about, to see and be seen.
— from The Wonderful Story of Ravalette by Paschal Beverly Randolph

They bear in their hands placards with black-typed announcements of the big news story of the day; and even these headings seem designed to soothe rather than to excite—saying, for example, such things as Special From Liner, in referring to a disaster at sea, and Meeting in Ulster, when meaning that the northern part of Ireland has gone on record as favoring civil war before home rule.
— from Europe Revised by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

"I'll do anything else to show my gratitude except marry the daughter," he was making up his mind in advance, when the servant returned, with a grave face.
— from Lord Loveland Discovers America by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

Kubota's method was to do all this rapidly and, if possible, with one dip of the well-watered brush into the sumi, so that as the sumi becomes gradually [pg 76] diluted and exhausted the proper effect of foreground, middle distance and remote perspective is obtained.
— from On the Laws of Japanese Painting: An Introduction to the Study of the Art of Japan by Henry P. Bowie

"I can't feel that I could have done anything else than I did," she cried passionately, "but I can't forget, Dan.
— from The Pioneers by Katharine Susannah Prichard

My plan is, for a person to describe the individual, naming the country and age in which he lived, what gained him distinction, and every thing else that is interesting; and then any one of the circle can guess who the hero is, having the privilege of asking one question previously.
— from Holidays at the Grange; or, A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside by Emily Mayer Higgins

He opened his state-room door and entered the saloon with a cheery “Good-morning, gentlemen!”
— from The Missing Merchantman by Harry Collingwood