In Zeisberger’s Delaware dictionary, however, we find waloh or walok , signifying a cave or hole, while in the “Walam Olum” we have oligonunk rendered “at the place of caves,” the region being further described as a buffalo land on a pleasant plain, where the Lenape′, advancing seaward from a less abundant northern region, at last found food (Walam Olum, pp. 194–195).
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

—I heard the following witch-story from a lawyer, a native of the district, who lives in the country just beyond Marazion:—‘Jimmy Thomas, of Wendron parish, who died within the last twenty-five years, was the last witch-doctor I know about in West Cornwall.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

I have friends at Leghorn, and no one shall find out that we have made acquaintance.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Weak though I am of limb, and short of sight, Far from a lynx, and not a giant quite; I’ll do what Mead and Cheselden advise, To keep these limbs, and to preserve these eyes.
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

Such for instance are the concentration of the national force to one object; the abandonment of the subsidizing policy, so far at least as neither to goad nor bribe the continental courts into war, till the convictions of their subjects had rendered it a war of their own seeking; and above all, in their manly and generous reliance on the good sense of the English people, and on that loyalty which is linked to the very [40] heart of the nation by the system of credit and the interdependence of property.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It appeared to him that he saw all this in Rachael’s face, and looked at nothing besides.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

There was a sale of the furniture and lease, at Norwood; and Tiffey told me, little thinking how interested I was in the story, that, paying all the just debts of the deceased, and deducting his share of outstanding bad and doubtful debts due to the firm, he wouldn’t give a thousand pounds for all the assets remaining.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Men may retire who long have shown Their faith and love, and now alone Retire because they cannot save— This is no treachery in the brave.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

His body was carried to Fors, and lay all night under the hill at the south side of the church.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

It's fine to be you, Charlotte East, setting yourself up for a lady, and never putting your foot inside the pawn-shop, with your clean hands and your clean kitchen on a Saturday night, sitting down to a hot supper, while the rest of us is a-scrubbing!"
— from Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles by Wood, Henry, Mrs.

The beginning of this true spiritual life, in which the individual loses his separate self to find a larger and nobler self in a common good in which each individual shares, and which none may monopolize;—the birthplace of the soul as of the body is in the family.
— from Practical Ethics by William De Witt Hyde

At the very top he found a long and narrow corridor, along which he groped in darkness.
— from Fenwick's Career by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

All my senses reeled at these words; I had hardly dared to hope for a letter and now this!--
— from L'Arrabiata and Other Tales by Paul Heyse

You could do business with Chicago for a lifetime and not find this out, unless you looked up the meridian of Chicago and found that it was 17.50 o'clock.
— from Time and Its Measurement by James Arthur

It furnished a lux a non lucendo .
— from The Evil Eye, Thanatology, and Other Essays by Roswell Park

If he ever got his mitten on the ball he clung to it, but he didn’t seem to be able to judge the direction of flies, and like as not would be four or five yards out of the way when the ball came down.
— from The Spirit of the School by Ralph Henry Barbour

Like many others of his class, he believed that California was completely “petered out,” now that the placer diggings had failed, and he had taken to farming, not because he liked it or it was a profitable business, but because he had to do something for a living, and nothing else offered.
— from Guy Harris, the Runaway by Harry Castlemon

As a result of the revival, five persons have been added to our church, and these five are live and not dead Christians.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 35, No. 11, November, 1881 by Various