So says Sigvat:— "They who on viking cruises drove With gifts of red gold often strove To buy their safety—but our chief Had no compassion for the thief.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Then, placing water in a vessel near the cup, the sorcerer or sorceress throws into it a grain of rice, giving out at the same time the name of some god or goddess.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

As they turned in towards headquarters, some one recognized the horses, and a shout of welcome greeted our ranger guests of over two weeks before.
— from A Texas Matchmaker by Andy Adams

Indeed Folk-lore superstitions may be said to be the débris of ancient mythologies; it may be of Egypt or India, Greece or Rome, Germany or Scandinavia.
— from Lancashire Folk-lore Illustrative of the Superstitious Beliefs and Practices, Local Customs and Usages of the People of the County Palatine by John Harland

The air was so rarefied, the drive so exciting, that I shouted with all my might, "Go on, reindeer, go on.
— from The Land of the Long Night by Paul B. (Paul Belloni) Du Chaillu

Estimates placed them at from one to five thousand souls—runaway negroes included—and even the best informed frontiersmen could give only rude guesses on this point.
— from Osceola the Seminole; or, The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Mayne Reid

The reason for this astonishing change of route was, perhaps, that on some of the charts of the period, as on Michael Lock's planisphere, this river, the Rio de Gamas or Rio Grande of the Spaniards, was made to communicate with what seems to be intended for Lake Ontario, and this with the other lakes to the westward was widened out into the waterway to the South Sea.
— from Round About the North Pole by W. J. (William John) Gordon

Gregory of Rimini, General of the Augustinians, with a few others followed St. Augustine in opposition to the accepted opinion of the Schools of his time, and for that reason he was called the torturer of children, tortor infantum .
— from Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von

he asked very graciously of Robin Gregg, one of the porters whom he knew.
— from The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown