Grateful for this mark of divine favour, Cadmus resolved to offer up the animal as a sacrifice, and accordingly sent his followers to fetch water for the libation from a neighbouring spring.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

The flesh of this fish when in order of a deep flesh coloured red and every Shade from that to an orrange yellow, and when very meager almost white.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

[1], CORIANDER, SPANISH CAMOMILE, CITRON, PARSNIPS, ASCALONIAN SHALLOTS, BULL RUSH ROOTS, DILL, FLEABANE, CYPRIAN RUSH, GARLIC, LEGUMES
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

But when he was all alone in the carriage Alexey Alexandrovitch, to his surprise and delight, felt complete relief both from this pity and from the doubts and agonies of jealousy.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

nawihan n a device for cutting rattan into strips.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The restraint which is employed to repress, and finally to extirpate the constant inclination to depart from certain rules, is termed discipline.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

What they did as to the regulation of the inhabitants and of infected families, I shall speak to by itself; but as to the affair of health, it is proper to mention it here that, having seen the foolish humour of the people in running after quacks and mountebanks, wizards and fortune-tellers, which they did as above, even to madness, the Lord Mayor, a very sober and religious gentleman, appointed physicians and surgeons for relief of the poor—I mean the diseased poor and in particular ordered the College of Physicians to publish directions for cheap remedies for the poor, in all the circumstances of the distemper.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

There was also the following supply of Literature:—Telemachus, Volney's Views, Public Characters, Dr. Whitman's Egypt, Evelina, Cecilia, Lady's Library, Ready Reckoner, Looking Glass, Franklin's Fair Sex, Camilla, Don Raphael, Night Thoughts, Winter Evenings, Voltaire's Life, Joseph Andrews, Walker's Geography, Bonaparte and the French People, Voltaire's Tales, Fisher's Companion, Modern Literature, Eccentric Biography, Naval do., Martial do., Fun, Criminal Records, Entick's Dictionary, Gordon's America, Thompson's Family Physician, Sheri [191] dan's Dictionary, Johnson's do., Wilson's Egypt, Denon's Travels, Travels of Cyrus, Stephani de Bourbon, Alexis, Pocket Library, Every Man's Physician, Citizen of the World, Taplin's Farriery, Farmer's Boy, Romance of the Forest, Grandison, Campbell's Narrative, Paul and Virginia, Adelaide de Sincere, Emelini, Monk, Abbess, Evening Amusement, Children of the Abbey, Tom Jones, Vicar of Wakefield, Sterne's Journey, Abelard and Eloisa, Ormond, Caroline, Mercutio, Julia and Baron, Minstrel, H. Villars, De Valcourt, J. Smith, Charlotte Temple, Theodore Chypon, What has Been, Elegant Extracts in Prose and Verse, J. and J. Jessamy, Chinese Tales, New Gazetteer, Smollett's Works, Cabinet of Knowledge, Devil on Sticks, Arabian Tales, Goldsmith's Essays, Bragg's Cookery, Tooke's Pantheon, Boyle's Voyage, Roderick Random, Jonathan Wild, Louisa Solomon's Guide to Health, Spelling-books, Bibles and Primers.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

"Woodcourt, my dear fellow," cried Richard, starting up with extended hands, "you come upon my vision like a ghost."
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

It was not till eleven hundred and twenty years had elapsed that the Devon folk could recover these points.
— from A Book of the West. Volume 1: Devon Being an introduction to Devon and Cornwall by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

"Cow House," picket at Dagshai Daily Telegraph, proprietors of the their dinner to the surviving veterans of the Mutiny Deacon, Captain, wounded Deacon, Colonel Delhi arsenal in charge of natives arrival of reinforcements buildings Palace of the Emperors vicissitudes riches massacres circumference of the walls the gates number of killed and wounded deaths from cholera arrival of the siege-train preparations for the bombardment trench-work commencement of the siege total force bombardment arrangements for the attack storming columns dispositions of the troops entrance into the city destructive nature of street-fighting advantages gained troops indulge in drink flight of insurgents Palace occupied by troops fall the bridge of boats looting and pillaging discovery of human beings size of the city punishment of natives insanitary condition capture by Lord Lake in 1803 accumulation of vast treasures Delhi Gazette, editor of the, tortured to death Delhi, Shah Bahadoor Shah, King of: his capture appearance and dress trial and sentence his sons taken prisoners and shot Dewan-i-Aum, or Hall of Audience, Delhi Dewan-i-Khas, Delhi Dost Mohammed Khan, Ameer, his spies at Delhi Drink, indulgence in, by the soldiers destruction of liquor Eclipse, partial, of the sun effect on the mutineers Edward VII., King, receives the surviving officers of the Indian Mutiny Elkington, mortally wounded his premonition of death Fagan, Captain Robert, killed at Delhi his characteristics Fagan, Captain, appointed prize agent Ferozepore, port of, in charge of natives 61st
— from A Narrative of the Siege of Delhi With an Account of the Mutiny at Ferozepore in 1857 by Charles John Griffiths

In those days few could read or write; they signed their names with a pictorial symbol, a cross—and a cross is a great improvement on most men's names.
— from The Defendant by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

This implies an objection to the doctrine of any pre -Keltic population, and to the inferences deduced from certain real or supposed peculiarities in the shape of the skulls from the tumuli of the Stone period.
— from The Ethnology of the British Islands by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

I only regret that they were not designed for construction rather than for destruction.
— from My Story by Anson Mills

"I have brought me a dagger, father," cried Robin, joyfully.
— from Robin Hood by Paul Creswick

He was successful in arms against the Greeks and Saracens, whom he drove from Calabria, restored peace and tranquility in Italy and Germany, and increased his popularity by various deeds of benevolence and kindness wherever he went.
— from The Every Day Book of History and Chronology Embracing the Anniversaries of Memorable Persons and Events in Every Period and State of the World, from the Creation to the Present Time by Joel Munsell

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— from Copyright: Its History and Its Law by R. R. (Richard Rogers) Bowker

The inhabitants are descended from certain refugees who, two hundred years ago, fled from Crete during a revolution, and built the 138 fortified village up on the hillside out of the reach of pirates, and remained isolated from the world ever since.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, April 1885 by Various