People are yoba’d , expelled from communities in certain circumstances, and a man would never dream of remaining, when thus treated.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

One of the most constant symptoms in persons suffering from hysteric disease in its extreme forms consists in alterations of the natural sensibility of various parts and organs of the body.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

In the Lebanon, once in each year, every female considers it her duty to salute with her lips the reverenced organ of the Old Sheik.
— from Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, on the Assyrian Sacred "Grove," and Other Allied Symbols by Thomas Inman

Note 77 ( return ) [ Papa Hilarius... apud beatum Petrum Apostolum, palam ne id fieret, clara voce constrinxit, in tantum ut non ea facienda cum interpositione juramenti idem promitteret Imperator.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

till his expulsion from Constantinople, in Ducange, Hist.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Tully, if a man had gone to heaven, seen the beauty of the skies, stars errant, fixed, &c., insuavis erit admiratio , it will do him no pleasure, except he have somebody to impart what he hath seen.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

But in the painting of a small cabinet picture that exists for close inspection, the supporting power of this line basis is not nearly so essential, and a full indulgence in all the rich variety of natural detail is permissible.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

The Colonial and Revolutionary Period —1654–1784 It was not until 1654 that the English first came into contact with the Cherokee, called in the records of the period Rechahecrians, a corruption of Rickahockan, apparently the name by which they were known to the Powhatan tribes.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

And when they thought of the valuables which this storeroom contained, the patience so much recommended by the engineer, fast changed into great irritation, and there certainly was room for it.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

One seldom, if ever, finds coffee improperly brewed in France—it is never boiled.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

He could not see the proud look on his master’s face, nor watch the change of expression from cold indifference to eager interest on that of the canon.
— from Prentice Hugh by Frances Mary Peard

P. corpore supra nigro flavo variegato; subtus albo, fasciis nigris transversis; mento flavo, capitis crista rufa nigro variegatâ , alis caudaque elongata furcata chalybeis, immaculatis.
— from Zoological Illustrations, Volume 1 or, Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by William Swainson

It would be ill-befitting, indeed, that the merry note of the sweet bird warbling freely in the glade should be marred by discordant sounds of woe, cataloguing the dreary list of disease, "All maladies Of ghastly spasm, or racking torture, qualms Of heartsick agony, all feverous kinds, Convulsions, epilepsies, fierce catarrhs, Intestine stone and ulcer, colic pangs, Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy, Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence, Dropsies, and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums;" while, amid the dire tossing and deep groans of the sufferers, "—— Despair Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch;
— from Bentley's Miscellany, Volume I by Various

—————Immediately a place Before his eyes appear'd, sad, noisom, dark, A lazar-house it seem'd; wherein were laid Numbers of all diseased: all maladies Of ghastly spasm, or racking torture, qualms Of heartsick agony, all fev'rous kinds, Convulsions, epilepsies, fierce catarrhs, Intestine stone and ulcer, cholic-pangs Demoniac phrenzy, moping melancholy And moon-struck madness, pining atrophy, Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence, Dropsies and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums; Dire was the tossing!
— from The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume I. by Theophilus Cibber

The exaggerations of the presumption ``in dubio pro reo'' are due to a sort of mummification and degeneracy of the legal maxims, whereby propositions based upon observation and generalisation from existing facts continue in force and are mechanically applied after the facts have changed or ceased to exist.
— from Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri

However, the bad weather did not worry us much; on the contrary, we looked rather eagerly for changes in the weather, especially if they revived our hopes of a good drift westward, with a prospect of soon getting out of our prison.
— from Farthest North, Vol. II Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 by Fridtjof Nansen

Socialists throughout the world want a peaceful evolution from capitalism into socialism; but whether or not it will be so in the case of any country is, as Lenin prophesies, to be determined by the dealings of its capitalists with its laborers.
— from Communism and Christianism Analyzed and Contrasted from the Marxian and Darwinian Points of View by William Montgomery Brown

Through it they dashed, a dark stream of wild, fierce heads and manes surging up and down, till the whole were driven in, and the hunters themselves, leaping the bar across the entrance, followed close in their rear.
— from Rob Nixon, the Old White Trader: A Tale of Central British North America by William Henry Giles Kingston

In his book, “On the Old West Coast” Major Horace Bell states that Henderson confided to him there was never a day nor night that Joaquin Murietta did not come to him and though headless, would demand the return of his head; that Henderson was never frightened by the apparition, which would vanish after Henderson explained why he couldn’t return the head and his excuse for cutting it off.
— from Loafing Along Death Valley Trails: A Personal Narrative of People and Places by William Caruthers

John Dale knew every fence corner in that region, but the night was so dark he stopped at times to "feel where he was."
— from The Angel of Lonesome Hill; A Story of a President by Frederick Landis