It is said, too, that the woman would occasionally carve a chain, consisting of three or four links, out of a single areca-nut, in which case the prospective bridegroom was supposed to redeem it by the payment of as many dollars as there were links.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

And the worst of it was, and the root of it all, that it was all in accord with the normal fundamental laws of over-acute consciousness, and with the inertia that was the direct result of those laws, and that consequently one was not only unable to change but could do absolutely nothing.
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

túrins n Torrens Title, a document attesting full legal ownership of a piece of land. titulu — = túrins .
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The Mind cannot fix long on one invariable Idea.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

The sweetness and serenity of Nature and the quiet watchfulness of the sport gradually bring on pleasant fits of musing, which are now and then agreeably interrupted by the song of a bird, the distant whistle of the peasant, or perhaps the vagary of some fish leaping out of the still water and skimming transiently about its glassy surface.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

A terrible thing it is, containing days without bread, nights without sleep, evenings without a candle, a hearth without a fire, weeks without work, a future without hope, a coat out at the elbows, an old hat which evokes the laughter of young girls, a door which one finds locked on one at night because one’s rent is not paid, the insolence of the porter and the cook-shop man, the sneers of neighbors, humiliations, dignity trampled on, work of whatever nature accepted, disgusts, bitterness, despondency.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

12 shows a method for laying out, on your cloth, the location of all the rings to make the tents and shelters.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

The knocking down of a friend for love or out of sheer gaiety and volatility of soul no longer ranks among the Irishman’s accomplishments.
— from The Wild Irishman by T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson) Crosland

Her confessor, who commanded Teresa to throw her Commentary on the Song of Solomon into the fire, was a sensible man and a true page 36 p. 36 friend to her reputation, and the nun who snatched a few leaves out of the fire did Teresa’s fame no service.
— from Santa Teresa: An Appreciation With Some of the Best Passages of the Saint's Writings by Alexander Whyte

Cannonade of Questions which opened along full length of Opposition Benches was concerned with the Plot.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 29, 1914 by Various

To prevent the pin from lifting out of its hole a small screw enters the top of the cross-arm and bears on the top end of the shank.
— from Electric Transmission of Water Power by Alton D. Adams

It is dangerous to generalise on such a topic, but since people resist temptation far less often than moralists suppose, it is perhaps safe to state that when men are faithful, it is principally from lack of opportunity, or disinclination to be otherwise.
— from Modern marriage and how to bear it by Maud Churton Braby

No sharper commentary upon the sad reversion of modern Germany to the customs and practices of savagery can be afforded than the fact that the rules promulgated by Lincoln for the guidance of the Union armies were drafted by Francis Lieber, one of the most notable men ever driven from reactionary Prussia to seek refuge in the United States.
— from The Wisconsin Magazine of History, Volume 1, 1917-1918 by Various

Desertions were not uncommon, for the sanguine men of the equator endure with less philosophy than others that sickness of the heart which comes from love of one's native land when absent from it.
— from Tropic Days by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield

She is also expelled for looking out of her window when the Chicago and Alton train was passing.
— from A Parody on Princess Ida by D. (Davison) Dalziel

The repeated endeavors of the Tennessee Synod to draw the false Lutherans out of their holes failed.
— from American Lutheranism Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod by F. (Friedrich) Bente