Only a synthesis from various fields of research can decide what relative importance in the genesis of religion is to be assigned to the mechanism which we are to discuss; but such a task exceeds the means as well as the intentions of the psychoanalyst.
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

The endless floods of rain came down tin the slates of the great gabled roof, rising like a knife blade toward the sky.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Loud roared the clouds, as on he sped, The sky grew blacker overhead; Till, as he reached the royal town, A mighty flood of rain came down.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Angus is always at the point of danger, and whether in battle or in hazardous expeditions shows how much a brave youth, full of resources, can do, even with so treacherous a foe.
— from A Roving Commission; Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Having hazarded some free opinions respecting Catholic doctrines, he was condemned to be burnt, but was saved by Alphonsus, King of Naples.
— from A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations by J. M. (Joseph Mazzini) Wheeler

Yet each of them performs the functions of respiration, circulation, digestion, and locomotion.
— from Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work by Henry White Warren

This affection, known also as Hay Catarrh, Hay Fever, or Rose Cold differs but little in its manifestations, from coryza, or cold in the head, save in its inciting cause , and in its element of periodicity.
— from The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand by Ray Vaughn Pierce

The Masters stopped in their tracks, frozen at the sight of this figure of retribution charging down on them.
— from Rebels of the Red Planet by Charles L. Fontenay

The sudden flood was due to a cloud-burst, which is a great fall of rain coming down without warning over a very small area of land, the contents of the whole cloud being discharged at once.
— from The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 27, May 13, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls by Various

——, ——, ——, of William IV., 142 ——, ——, ——, of Victoria, 142 ——, ——, increase of size of various rates in 1788.. 129 ——, ——, of the middle of the eighteenth century, defects of, 123 F Falmouth , East Indiaman of 1752, 124 , 125 Fleet of Richard Cœur de Lion for invasion of Palestine, 67 164 Fleet of Edward III.
— from Ancient and Modern Ships, Part 1: Wooden Sailing Ships by Holmes, George Charles Vincent, Sir

King Edward landed at Jaffa on 31st March, and both on his entrance into the Holy Land and during his approach to Jerusalem he followed in the footsteps of Richard Cœur de Lion and Edward I.
— from His Most Gracious Majesty King Edward VII by Marie Belloc Lowndes