Male rats and female rats, I conjure you, by the great God, to go out of my house, out of all my habitations, and to betake yourselves to such and such a place, there to end your days.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

We stopped short at the second front row; I could hardly understand why, until I heard Miss Pole ask a stray waiter if any of the county families were expected; and when he shook his head, and believed not, Mrs Forrester and Miss Matty moved forwards, and our party represented a conversational square.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

I have seen great surprise expressed in horticultural works at the wonderful skill of gardeners in having produced such splendid results from such poor materials; but the art has been simple, and, as far as the final result is concerned, has been followed almost unconsciously.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

After the accession of Edward VI. to the throne of England, an order was directed to Sir Anthony Leger, the lord-deputy of Ireland, commanding that the liturgy in English be forthwith set up in Ireland, there to be observed within the several bishoprics, cathedrals, and parish churches; and it was first read in Christ-church, Dublin, on Easter day, 1551, before the said Sir Anthony, Archbishop Browne, and others.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

He is hungry to be rich, for he is human; but his preference has been for riches in cattle, not in fine clothes and fine houses and gold and diamonds.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

128 Ross, John , president of constitutional convention 112 Ross, John , proclamation by 120 Ross, John , proposition for removal by 132 Ross, John , protest against removal treaty by 120 Ross, John , refusal of President Jackson to communicate with 126 Ross, John , signer of act of union 135 Ross, John , suit against Georgia by 119 Ross, John , threat of arrest 135 Ross, W. P. , editor of Cherokee Advocate 111 Ross, W. P. on death of Sequoya 148 Ross , ——, on Indian warfare in 1776 52 Ross , —— on Williamson’s expedition 50 Royce, C. C. , on adoption of Cherokee constitution 113 , 135 Royce, C. C. on Arkansas Cherokee 137 , 138 , 140 , 141 , 142 Royce, C. C. on arrest of Ross 123 Royce, C. C. on attack on Buchanans station 73 Royce, C. C. on attempted establishment of iron works in Cherokee country (1807) 86 Royce, C. C. on attempted purchase by Tennessee (1807) 86 Royce, C. C. on attempt to annul treaty of 1817 104 Royce, C. C. on Blount’s proposal (1795) 80 Royce, C. C. on building of Unicoi turnpike 87 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee attitude regarding land cession (1830) 119 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee census (1835) 125 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee desire to go west (1817–19) 104 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee emigration, 1817–19 103 , 104 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee invitations to Delawares, Shawano, and Oneida 105 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee land cessions 34 , 45 , 54 , 60 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee loss in Civil war 149 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee memorial to Congress (1834) 121 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee memorials to President Monroe 115 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee part in French and Indian war 39 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee part in Civil war 148 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee population 34 [ 569 ] Royce, C. C. , on Cherokee project to remove to Columbia river 120 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee relations with Creeks 383 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee relations with Tuscarora 32 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee suffering through Civil war 150 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee territory in 1800 81 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee war of 1760–61 45 Royce, C. C. on clearing of East Cherokee title to Qualla reservation 174 Royce, C. C. on Col. R. J. Meigs 215 Royce, C. C. on council at New Echota 122 Royce, C. C. on Davis’s letter to Secretary of War 127 Royce, C. C. on death of Sequoya 148 Royce, C. C. on deaths during Removal 133 Royce, C. C. on delegation to Washington (1835) 122 Royce, C. C. on desire for Indian lands 85 Royce, C. C. on destruction of Chickamauga towns 79 Royce, C. C. on General Dunlap’s address 128 Royce, C. C. on East Cherokee censuses 167 , 168 Royce, C. C. on East Cherokee participation in Removal fund 167 Royce, C. C. on Everett’s letter to Secretary of War 128 Royce, C. C. on extension of Georgia laws 221 Royce, C. C. on first railroad in Cherokee country 151 Royce, C. C. on Georgia acts effecting Cherokee 116 , 117 Royce, C. C. on Governor Gilmer’s declaration 129 Royce, C. C. on imprisonment of missionaries 120 Royce, C. C. on incorporation of Delawares and Shawano 151 Royce, C. C. on Indian war path 206 , 207 Royce, C. C. on Jackson’s attitude toward Cherokee 117 Royce, C. C. on Jefferson’s removal project 101 Royce, C. C. on McMinn’s estimate of Cherokee emigration 106 Royce, C. C. on massacre of Scott party and Bowl migration 100 Royce, C. C. on opposition to allotment project (1820) 114 Royce, C. C. on origin of Chickamauga band 54 Royce, C. C. on party feeling over removal plans 129 Royce, C. C. on payment of East Cherokee share in Removal fund 168 Royce, C. C. on Ross’s attitude during civil war 149 Royce, C. C. on Ross’s last efforts against removal 130 Royce, C. C. on royal proclamation of 1763 46 Royce, C. C. on Rutherford’s route 205 Royce, C. C. on Schermerhorn’s proposals for securing acceptance of Ridge treaty 122 Royce, C. C. on Scott’s proclamation 130 Royce, C. C. on Sweatland’s census 172 Royce, C. C. on Tellico conference 79 Royce, C. C. on threat to arrest Ross 135 Royce, C. C. on treaties of New Echota 123 , 125 , 159 Royce, C. C. on treaties of Tellico (1798, 1804, 1805) 81 , 85 Royce, C. C. on treaties of Washington (1816, 1819, 1846) 98 , 106 , 148 Royce, C. C. on treaty of Augusta 61 Royce, C. C. on treaty of Cherokee agency (1834) 120 Royce, C. C. on treaty of Chickasaw Old Fields (1807) 86 Royce, C. C. on treaty of Fort Gibson 125 Royce, C. C. of treaty of Holston 69 Royce, C. C. on treaty of Hopewell 62 Royce, C. C. on treaty of Philadelphia (1794)
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

To this exchange of compliments succeeded a feast resembling in character what has already been described but far surpassing it in magnificence and the number of courses.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

This contingency of its form in all empirical natural laws in reference to Reason affords a ground for regarding its causality as possible only through Reason.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

When the count came to see her she turned anxiously round at the sound of a man’s footstep, and then her face resumed its cold and malevolent expression.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Happy indeed might the cities of Italy have been had they not forgotten, in their prosperity, that union alone could give them the possibility of maintaining that liberty which they so freely risked in continual quarrels amongst one another!
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

Philosophy is a later development from this basis (just as Greek philosophy itself is later than Greek religion), and in fact reaches its completion by catching and comprehending in all its definite essentiality that principle of spirit which first manifests itself in religion.
— from Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The coal-dust flew round in copious whirlpool.
— from The Bonadventure: A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Edmund Blunden

Property of some thousands of pounds, that might have been his had he been willing to make oath in the form required in chancery, he renounced to his scruples.
— from The Beginners of a Nation A History of the Source and Rise of the Earliest English Settlements in America, with Special Reference to the Life and Character of the People by Edward Eggleston

Then the Frenchman resumed, in conversational tones: "I have but one unmarried sister,—already nineteen, beautiful as an angel (in the eyes, at least, of fraternal affection), and undoubtedly as headstrong as any devil at present stoking the eternal fires below.
— from Gallantry: Dizain des Fetes Galantes by James Branch Cabell

[14] "I would add," says Dr. Johnson, in his Life of Parnell, "that the description of barrenness in his verses to Pope was borrowed from Secundus, but lately searching for the passage, which I had formerly read, I could not find it."
— from The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 Poetry - Volume 1 by Alexander Pope

Yet whence has the progress of cities and nations arisen, if not from remarkable individuals, coming into the world we know not how, and from causes over which we have no control?
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

One important branch of science, metaphysics, has been left with very few representatives, in consequence of the highly controversial nature of the subject.
— from The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 7 (of 7) by Arthur Thomas Malkin

About midday the French sat down to cook, and the smoke from their fires rose in clouds, indicated their position, but hid them from view; at the same time, although the sun was shining, the culinary haze concealed the workmen engaged in throwing up shelter for the heavy guns drawn from the forts; and the German leaders arrived at the conclusion that the onslaught would be deferred until the next day; their soldiers also fell to cooking, and some fractions recrossed the Moselle to join their main body; but
— from The Campaign of Sedan: The Downfall of the Second Empire, August-September 1870 by George Hooper