"Sit down and rest," she said to me; "you have come a long distance and are tired."
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

I got the dishcloth, and rather spitefully scrubbed Edgar’s nose and mouth, affirming it served him right for meddling.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Fasal pada menyatakan melihat warna tanah rupa dan rasa-nya baik dan jahat, jikalau handak berbuat negri atau kampong dan dusun atau rumah sĕpaya sentosa kadiaman tempat itu:— Bermula jikalau bumi itu warna-nya hijau kuning bau-nya manis dan pĕdas baik, ʿalamat beruleh amas dan perak sampei pada anak chuchu-nya beruleh kakaya’an ada-nya.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

The Myth and Ritual of Attis ANOTHER of those gods whose supposed death and resurrection struck such deep roots into the faith and ritual of Western Asia is Attis.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

The lye made thereof is singularly good to cleanse the head from scurf, and from dry and running sores, stays the falling or shedding of the hair, and causes it to grow thick, fair, and well coloured; for which purpose some boil it in wine, putting some Smallage seed thereto, and afterwards some oil.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

[11] In this district also resided several strangers, scarcely known to their native places, as Francesco d'Imola, a scholar of Francia, who, in the convent of Cingoli, painted a Descent from the Cross; and Carlo Crivelli, a Venetian, who passed from one state to another, and finally settled in Ascoli.
— from The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Luigi Lanzi

She sought justice, but the lawyer demanded a retainer; so she gave it up, and went back to her little ones.
— from Children of the Tenements by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

Some soft creamy stuff was folded and draped about Rose's slim shapely figure in such a way as to bring out all its charming roundness and grace.
— from Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

The smaller courts are, I understand, already doomed, and rightly so, since there is no need for them and nothing like them elsewhere.
— from The Wanderings of a Spiritualist by Arthur Conan Doyle

The difference, accordingly, renewed, sharp, sore, was the irritant under which he had quitted the palace and under which he was to make the best of the business of again dining there.
— from The Wings of the Dove, Volume II by Henry James