At the same time, he restored the priests to life, and inflicted the following four curses on the Vīramushtis:—(1) they were not to build or use houses, and are consequently found living under trees outside villages; (2) they were not to sleep on a cot; (3) they were not to use the wild broom-stick; (4) they were not to set up permanent ovens for cooking purposes, but to make impromptu stoves out of three stones.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

And now, my dear Franz, let us talk of something else.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

And even now for thine assurance, that thou think not this the idle fashioning of sleep, a great sow shall be found lying under the oaks on the shore, with her new-born litter of thirty head: white she couches on the ground, and the brood about her teats is white.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

Come, friends: let us to our covers, for no man can tell when or where a Maqua* will strike his blow.”
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

"Just as she finished her illustrious toil, Ill fortune led Ulysses to our isle.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

From that time the Sidetans used to speak a foreign language unlike that of the neighbouring nations.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

Every moment would it not be a torment to me, that each woe I drew down upon my head would fall likewise upon that of a guiltless and innocent being with a hundredfold weight.
— from The Strange Story of Rab Ráby by Mór Jókai

And now, Sir, enough of me and my fortunes, let us talk of the road.
— from Luttrell Of Arran by Charles James Lever

Continued excavation will no doubt throw fuller light upon the old sacred places, their varying types, and their development; even the recent discovery of a small pottery model of the façade of a shrine is suggestive.
— from The Religion of Ancient Palestine in the Second Millenium B.C. by Stanley Arthur Cook

Rome, as metropolitan, was supreme judge in causes, from the Cimbrian Chersonesus to Gascony; and a thousand feudal lords, uniting their own peculiar usages with the canon law, produced in the result that monstrous jurisprudence of which there at present exist so many remains.
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 07 by Voltaire

It has been my privilege to see something of the daily life of a good many families living under their own roof-tree, and in every case without exception I have been struck with the beauty and intimacy of the relation between parents and children.
— from America To-day, Observations and Reflections by William Archer

It differs materially from that prevalent in Scotland, and further labours under the objection of being a voluntary charity similar to that of the Industrial schools.
— from Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 707, July 14, 1877 by Various

One had his arm thrown around a comrade's neck, and his head falling limply upon the other's shoulder.
— from The Dispatch-Riders: The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman