[215] The early Celts recognized an intimate relationship between man and nature: unperceived by man, unseen forces—not dissimilar to what Melanesians call Mana —(looked on as animate and intelligent and frequently individual entities) guided every act of human life.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

You don’t know what splendid adventures I have for a little while after I go to bed in the east gable every night.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Iter igitur ita per Asiam feci, ut etiam fames, qua nihil miserius est, quae tum erat in hac mea Asia—messis enim nulla fuerat—, mihi optanda 20 fuerit : quacumque iter feci, nulla vi, nullo iudicio, nulla contumelia auctoritate et cohortatione perfeci, ut et Graeci et cives Romani, qui frumentum compresserant , magnum numerum populis pollicerentur.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Eek greet effect men wryte in place lite.
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

From Ireland thus comes York to claim his right And pluck the crown from feeble Henry's head: Ring bells aloud, burn bonfires clear and bright, To entertain great England's lawful king.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

In 5 vols., cloth extra, gilt, each 24 s. “It supplies a want which has long been felt, and ought to be in the hands of all students of history.”— Times.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

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— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

But this is not so; it is by the reaction of the mind upon the notices of the ear (the matter coming by the senses, the form from the mind) that the pleasure is constructed, and therefore it is that people of equally good ear differ so much in this point from one another.
— from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey

Nor can the phrase parecontai taV eautvn gunaikaV en toiV epithdeioiV well bear a less coarse interpretation.
— 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

" Every grievance Eaton had ever felt against his chief came trooping to his mind.
— from Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) by William MacLeod Raine

“This sys­tem­a­ti­za­tion of all thought,” she tells us, would be “a more far reaching improvement than all the others, for it will do for education, health, economics, government, etc., what the alphabet did for language, movable type for printing and literature, the scale for music, and the rules of arithmetic for calculation.
— from Thinking as a Science by Henry Hazlitt

If the frustule at the free end gets entangled, the fixed frustule takes the lead and continues the motion till the other is free.
— from On Molecular and Microscopic Science, Volume 1 (of 2) by Mary Somerville

[From the Guardian:] May the Beloved bless your efforts, guide every step you take, and aid you to promote the vital interests of His Faith.
— from High Endeavours: Messages to Alaska by Effendi Shoghi

It stands thus: " Person is a distinction which is made in a noun between its representation of its object, either as spoken to, or spoken of ."—Chandler's E. Grammar; Edition of 1821, p. 16; Ed. 1847, p. 21.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

But he may fairly claim the indulgence granted to pioneers in untrodden fields of learning, and he has laid Biblical scholars under a debt of gratitude which even greater errors of detail could not efface.
— from A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener

la gente y cauallos y ganados y llego a tiguex y sabida la triste nueba como el general estaba en los terminos ya dichos no se lo osaron deçir hasta que
— from The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542. Excerpted from the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-1893, Part 1. by George Parker Winship

The handsome face of the young Apache seemed utterly blank of all expression except gluttonish enjoyment of the food he was wolfing.
— from Bloom of Cactus by Robert Ames Bennet

[71] By the condescending humility of men of high rank, and the aspiring ambition of men of no rank, they to all appearance become equal at every general election.
— from Hogarth's Works, with life and anecdotal descriptions of his pictures. Volume 2 (of 3) by John Ireland

The proposal excited great enthusiasm, and an early lunch was ordered so that we could set forth in good time, so as to have a couple of hours with the animals before adjourning to a confectioner’s for tea.
— from The Lady of the Basement Flat by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.