It is said also that poisoners mix it secretly with the food of their intended victim, when, if he eats, he soon becomes drowsy, and, unless kept in motion until the effect wears off, falls asleep, never to wake again.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

'Mrs Boffin,' said Rokesmith, quietly turning to her, 'for your delicate and unvarying kindness I thank you with the warmest gratitude.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

It is a labor to task the faculties of a man—such problems of profit and loss, of interest, of tare and tret, and gauging of all kinds in it, as demand a universal knowledge.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

These cities of the dead are usually kept in attractive order and made beautiful with flowers in memoriam.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

“Upon my word,” cried Miss Crawford, “you are two of the most disappointing and unfeeling kind friends I ever met with!
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Ngil-ad ug dungug ang usa ka hustis, A night club hostess has a bad reputation.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

[4598] Hard is the doubt, and difficult to deem, When all three kinds of love together meet; And do dispart the heart with power extreme, Whether shall weigh the balance down; to wit, The dear affection unto kindred sweet, Or raging fire of love to women kind, Or zeal of friends, combin'd by virtues meet; But of them all the band of virtuous mind, Methinks the gentle heart should most assured bind.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

I have no knowledge of what passed prior to my fifth or sixth year; I recollect nothing of learning to read, I only remember what effect the first considerable exercise of it produced on my mind; and from that moment I date an uninterrupted knowledge of myself.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

These various Armenian dealers are universally known for their shrewdness and cleverness as well as for other ingenuousness and natural courtesy.
— from The Oriental Rug A Monograph on Eastern Rugs and Carpets, Saddle-Bags, Mats & Pillows, with a Consideration of Kinds and Classes, Types, Borders, Figures, Dyes, Symbols, etc. Together with Some Practical Advice to Collectors. by William De Lancey Ellwanger

And when the moon, its rose-wine quaffing Which flows across the Eastern deep, Awakes us, Klarà chides me laughing, And says, 'We love too well in sleep!'
— from Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

He was so grieved, so pierced to the heart’s core, that he forgot for a while all that he had heard, read, or witnessed of woman’s devout affection, unwearied kindness, heroic attachment, and moral sublimity.
— from Penelope: or, Love's Labour Lost, Vol. 2 (of 3) by William Pitt Scargill

By this time the breeze fined down again, and the dullest among us knew that unless we could get the frigate through the water at a better pace, our hope of taking another prize that day was at an end.
— from With Porter in the Essex A Story of His Famous Cruise in the Southern Waters During the War of 1812 by James Otis

This person built Srinagar, and made it the capital of his dominions, on which account his descendants are usually known to Europeans as Rajas of Srinagar.
— from An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal And of the Territories Annexed to this Dominion by the House of Gorkha by Francis Hamilton

I have been told by a toddyman who lived on the edge of the forest region, that in a valley near his house he had seen a tiger worrying a bison and inducing it to charge for nearly a whole day and ultimately killing it.
— from Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore With chapters on coffee planting in Coorg, the Mysore representative assembly, the Indian congress, caste and the Indian silver question, being the 38 years' experiences of a Mysore planter by Robert H. (Robert Henry) Elliot

Closely connected with these early Attic fabrics is a very interesting series of small vases which, from the place of their discovery, are usually known as Phaleron ware .
— from History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. Volume 1 (of 2) by H. B. (Henry Beauchamp) Walters

Abernethy's treatment of the most dry and unimportant, kept his audience unceasingly interested.
— from Memoirs of John Abernethy With a View of His Lectures, His Writings, and Character; with Additional Extracts from Original Documents, Now First Published by George Macilwain

We are very much in the habit of considering circumstantial evidence as of less value than testimonial evidence, and it may be that, where the circumstances are not perfectly clear and intelligible, it is a dangerous and unsafe kind of evidence; but it must not be forgotten that, in many cases, circumstantial is quite as conclusive as testimonial evidence, and that, not unfrequently, it is a great deal weightier than testimonial evidence.
— from Lectures on Evolution Essay #3 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition" by Thomas Henry Huxley

There's draining and digging enough to be done as 'ud keep ye all in work, arn't there?" "Ay, ay; there's lots o' work to be done, if so be we could get at it.
— from Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography by Charles Kingsley