He rolled over with a groan of protest and looked at his tormentor.
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

A betel-vine cultivator objects to entering his garden or plucking a leaf after the lighting of the lamps; but, if some leaves are urgently required, he will, before plucking them, pour water from a pot at the foot of the tree on which the vine is growing.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

The expulsion of the partisans of Athens from the government of Phocis and Locris, and the revolt of Euboea and Megara, were announced in quick succession.
— from A Smaller History of Greece: from the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest by William Smith

[The lamp goes out] Put a little amber in your back batten.
— from Six Short Plays by John Galsworthy

The Tibetan wife, far from spending these gifts on personal adornment, looks ahead, contemplating possible contingencies, and immediately hires a field, the produce of which is her own, and which accumulates year after year in a separate granary, so that she may not be portionless in case she leaves her husband!
— from Among the Tibetans by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

The Tibetan wife, far from spending these gifts on personal adornment, looks ahead, contemplating possible contingencies, and immediately hires a field, the produce of which is her own, and accumulates from year to year, so that she may not be portionless should she desire a divorce."
— from The Evolution of Fashion by Florence Mary Gardiner

[9] a month, for as I had paid at first, I shall be obliged to go on paying as long as I live, and later on, she will believe that I am her father.
— from The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 4 by Guy de Maupassant

If he did not raise dead bodies, did not many, who were immured in the graves of pride, and lust, and worldliness, hear his voice, and come forth to the life—which is life indeed?
— from John the Baptist by F. B. (Frederick Brotherton) Meyer

Hither came statesmen and philosophers, merchants and traders, poets and priests, and people of every degree; streaming up through gorge and defile, up through groves of pine and laurel and cypress, up to the broad, bright plain, Around the spot where trod Apollo’s foot.
— from The World's Earliest Music Traced to Its Beginnings in Ancient Lands by Collected Evidence of Relics, Records, History, and Musical Instruments from Greece, Etruria, Egypt, China, Through Asyria and Babylonia, to the Primitive Home, the Land of Akkad and Sumer by Hermann Smith

The hard, gray, leafless trees stood up sternly around these first daughters of spring, arrayed in their garments of pomp, and looked, as well as inanimate things can look, jealous and uneasy.
— from The Puddleford Papers; Or, Humors of the West by Henry Hiram Riley