Thus the Maize-mother was represented by a puppet made of stalks of maize dressed in full female attire; and the Indians believed that “as mother, it had the power of producing and giving birth to much maize.”
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

All this is admitted, it will perhaps be said; but does it follow, from an admission of numbers for the measure of representation, or of slaves combined with free citizens as a ratio of taxation, that slaves ought to be included in the numerical rule of representation?
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

I went over to Harriet's to get a piece," and saying this, she drew it forth from a pocket in her dress and exhibited it to him.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

And again, “If it comes to swinging, swing all, say I.” Then all of a sudden there was a tremendous explosion of oaths and other noises—the chair and table went over in a lump, a clash of steel followed, and then a cry of pain, and the next instant I saw Black Dog in full flight, and the captain hotly pursuing, both with drawn cutlasses, and the former streaming blood from the left shoulder.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

For we must agree that it takes a brave and heroic soul to hold as slight what most people think grand and glorious, and to disregard it from fixed and settled principles.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

" The father said, "If it be possible, thy desire shall be fulfilled," and he caused a search to be made in his whole kingdom, until eleven young maidens were found who exactly resembled his daughter in face, figure, and size.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

He did, in fact, for a time almost forget Smerdyakov's existence, and yet, a fortnight after his first visit to him, he began to be haunted by the same strange thoughts as before.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A. Explain, therefore, if it is not troublesome to you, first, if you can, that souls do exist after death; secondly, should you fail in that (and it is a very difficult thing to establish), that death is free from all evil; for I am not without my fears that this itself is an evil: I do not mean the immediate deprivation of sense, but the fact that we shall hereafter suffer deprivation.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

[1030] to distinguish it from folly and madness (which Montaltus makes angor animi , to separate) in which those functions are not depraved, but rather abolished; [without an ague] is added by all, to sever it from frenzy, and that melancholy which is in a pestilent fever.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

For this worshiper Delphine was always pure and fair, and her father’s adoration drew its fervor from a whole past as well as a future of love.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

If treated by ether, the ether obtained by distillation is free from acid, all the acid remaining in the oil.
— from New York Journal of Pharmacy, Volume 1 (of 3), 1852 Published by Authority of the College of Pharmacy of the City of New York. by College of Pharmacy of the City of New York

Then another layer of seasoned tomatoes; and proceed thus till the dish is full, finishing at the top with bread-crumbs.
— from Miss Leslie's Lady's New Receipt-Book, 3rd ed. A Useful Guide for Large or Small Families, Containing Directions for Cooking, Preserving, Pickling... by Eliza Leslie

Too much trouble, in cutting the die into fine fringes and jags; inconvenience after that,—because, though you can easily stamp cheeks and foreheads smooth at a blow, you can't stamp projecting tresses fine at a blow, whatever pains you take with your die.
— from The Queen of the Air: Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm by John Ruskin

As to the allotment of the independent Cavalry Divisions, it follows from all that has been said above, that to divide them in equal proportions among the several Armies, according to their numerical strength, can only be considered as an obstacle to the full utilization of their potential fighting capacity.
— from Cavalry in Future Wars by Friedrich von Bernhardi

Therefore we were wrong, no doubt, in feeling first a little grievance, then a large-minded impatience, and finally a strong desire—ay, and not the desire alone—to swear, before we got out of it.
— from The Maid of Sker by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

Like liberty, it is brightest in dungeons, in fetters freest, and conquers with its martyrdom.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 22, October, 1875, to March, 1876 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

By some critics it is assigned to Bellegambe, who was born at Douai in French Flanders and was a contemporary of Gossaert.
— from The Spell of Flanders An Outline of the History, Legends and Art of Belgium's Famous Northern Provinces by Edward Neville Vose

The little creatures swam to and fro as before, growing hazy and dwindling or swelling as they swam out of the narrow focus of the lens; he gazed at those who paused in sharp definition, and saw that, although he had at first seen no visible means of propulsion, each creature bore about its head a halo of thread-like, flickering cilia that lashed the water and drew it forward, for all the world like an airplane propeller or a rapidly turning wheel.
— from The Rotifers by Robert Abernathy