This same magic technique, instead of being used for private enmity can also be employed for pious purposes and can thus be used to aid the gods against evil demons.
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

There is a big insurrection going on in the province of Albay, which is the very richest province in the whole archipelago, a province as big as the State of [ 410 ] Delaware, 7 having a population of about a quarter of a million people, and he has, for police purposes, a crude outfit of native constabulary, officered mostly by ex-enlisted men of the mustered-out American volunteer regiments.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Of late I have been studying with diligence the four prose poems about Christ.
— from De Profundis by Oscar Wilde

The spirit of [Pg 708] conciliation, however, manifests itself frequently in its full peculiarity precisely after complete surrender to the struggle, after the conflicting energies have exercised themselves to the full in the conflict.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

[2] Tor. heads the following formula præparatio pulli anethi —chicken in dill sauce, which is the correct description of the above formula.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

While suffering from “hope deferred” as to its fate, Poe presented a copy of “Annabel Lee” to the editor of the “Southern Literary Messenger,” who published it in the November number of his periodical, a month after Poe’s death.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Among such have been found the most famous and by far the foremost philosophers [P] and certain other [Q] earnest, thoughtful men who could not endure the conduct of either the people or their leaders; some of them, too, lived in the country and found their pleasure in the management of their private estates.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The frightful 18th of June lives again; the false monumental hillock disappears, the lion vanishes in air, the battle-field resumes its reality, lines of infantry undulate over the plain, furious gallops traverse the horizon; the frightened dreamer beholds the flash of sabres, the gleam of bayonets, the flare of bombs, the tremendous interchange of thunders; he hears, as it were, the death rattle in the depths of a tomb, the vague clamor of the battle phantom; those shadows are grenadiers, those lights are cuirassiers; that skeleton Napoleon, that other skeleton is Wellington; all this no longer exists, and yet it clashes together and combats still; and the ravines are empurpled, and the trees quiver, and there is fury even in the clouds and in the shadows; all those terrible heights, Hougomont, Mont-Saint-Jean, Frischemont, Papelotte, Plancenoit, appear confusedly crowned with whirlwinds of spectres engaged in exterminating each other.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

[Pg xi] ILLUSTRATIONS The Return from the Grand Prix Frontispiece Page Playing at Country Life 20 Doeuillet passes Judgment 40 Beer and his Mannequins 52 The Day of the Drags 66 At Longchamps 72 The First Sportswoman of France 84 Fashion's Ferry 90 The Latest Plaything of the Duchesse d'Uzes 98 "Gossip Street" at Trouville 120 In the Club Grounds at Deauville 130 At a Rothschild Garden Party 154 Baronne Henri de Rothschild at the Meet 166 The Blessing of the Hounds at Bonnelles 178 The Palace of Folly—Monte Carlo 186 The Crowd at Monte Carlo 196
— from In Vanity Fair: A Tale of Frocks and Femininity by Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd

A wagon answering for pulpit, platform and choir-loft, the noble few, interested and willing-hearted, were organized for Christian work; and after a long, severe, self-sacrificing struggle, with help of friends here and there, a comfortable meeting house was completed, even to a bell in its tower.
— from Home Missions in Action by Edith H. (Edith Hedden) Allen

In serving grapes, the waitress, after supplying fruit plates, passes a compote containing the grapes and offers fruit shears, so that each guest may cut what he or she desire.
— from How to Prepare and Serve a Meal; and Interior Decoration by Lillian B. Lansdown

A French perry pear abundantly cultivated in the Haute-Savoie, Fr.
— from The Pears of New York by U. P. Hedrick

Floor patterns, parquets and carpets, for instance, naturally demand different treatment from wall patterns, as those orders of plants in nature which cling and spread on the flat ground differ from those which grow high and maintain themselves in the air, or climb upon trees.
— from Line and Form (1900) by Walter Crane

The cards in the other parcel are then sold by the dealer for a certain fixed price, perhaps a counter for each card, all payments being placed in different proportions on the prizes.
— from Cassell's Book of In-door Amusements, Card Games, and Fireside Fun by Various

Anecdotes of Henry Grattan, Flood, Parsons, Ponsonby, and Curran jostled in my mind with stories of their immediate successors, the Burkes and the Plunketts, whose fame has come down to the very day we live in.
— from Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Charles James Lever

Mr. Ferguson, Phœbe, Phil and Cousin Judith eyed one another by turns, and in every eye gleamed the certainty that Jonathan Eliot’s fortune was saved to the Darings.
— from The Daring Twins: A Story for Young Folk by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum