The more important, commonly distinguished as Ayuhwa′sĭ Egwâ′hĭ or Great Hiwassee, was on the north bank of Hiwassee river at the present Savannah ford above Columbus, in Polk county, Tennessee.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

A single fault, a crime inhumanly punished, resistance against the outrages of this power, fear of atrocious tortures, east them out forever from society and condemn them to slay or be slain.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

Nulla fides regni sociis, omnisque potestas / Impatiens consortis erit —There is no faith among colleagues in power, and all power will be impatient of a colleague.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Recht stets behält das Schicksal, denn das Herz, / In uns ist sein gebietrischer Vollzieher —Fate always carries its point, for the heart in us is its imperious executor.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

The reason of man, like man himself, is timid and cautious when left alone, and acquires firmness and confidence in proportion to the number with which it is associated.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

But the same belief requires the relatives to anoint themselves with the liquids which issue from a corpse in putrefaction, because they are supposed to have exceptional virtues.—From this point of view, magic has served a great deal more than religion.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

There are infinite examples of like popular resolutions which seem the more fierce and cruel in proportion as the effect is more universal, and yet are really less so than when singly executed; what arguments and persuasion cannot do with individual men, they can do with all, the ardour of society ravishing particular judgments.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

LYNCHED AS A WARNING Alabama furnishes a case in point.
— from The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Free education for all children in public schools.
— from The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels

I've been a wild fellow in my youth, and never pretended to sanctity; but I know there's but one safe way—and—and—keep you each a bit of this—(he opened a small silver box)—about you while you stay here—fold and sew it up reverently in a bit of the old psaltery parchment and wear it next your hearts—'tis a fragment of the consecrated wafer—and will help, with the saints' protection, to guard you from harm—and be strict in fasts, and constant in prayer—
— from J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 2 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

And when I take a man for a Christian I put faith in him.
— from The Von Toodleburgs Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams

The flavor of this little adventure began now to appeal to Eddring, and thus left to his own resources, he determined to assume a bold front and call in person at the old house on the Esplanade.
— from The Law of the Land Of Miss Lady, Whom It Involved in Mystery, and of John Eddring, Gentleman of the South, Who Read Its Deeper Meaning: A Novel by Emerson Hough

A leaning pyramid of sunlight, narrowing out at a high window, moves by the clock: disaccordant hands straining out from a center: inevitable postures infinitely repeated— II Two—twofour—twoeight!
— from Sour Grapes: A Book of Poems by William Carlos Williams

The formal and exaggerated attention which the sex receives from all classes in public, is at least a proof of the high estimation in which it is held, and must, we think, be put down as an amiable trait in the American character.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 by Various

That did not make me feel any cooler; if possible, I grew redder and redder.
— from The Harmsworth Magazine, v. 1, 1898-1899, No. 2 by Various

FRIED PICKEREL WITH TOMATO SAUCE Prepare and clean the fish and cut into pieces of a suitable size for serving.
— from How to Cook Fish by Myrtle Reed

As in nature, the more we exercise, the better the appetite, so in grace, the more our renewed faculties are called into play, the more we feel the need of feeding, each day, upon Christ.
— from Notes on the book of Exodus by Charles Henry Mackintosh