It is said 2 to be considered very efficacious if the Brāhmans take in procession round the village an image of Varuna (the god of rain) made of mud from the bed of a river or tank.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

The right of property in the [24] offending animal, which was the ancient ground of responsibility, might have been adopted safely enough as the test of a liability based on the fault of the owner.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

The soft breezes sweep across it, heavy with the fragrance of jasmine and gardenia, and through the swaying boughs of palm and mimosa there are glimpses of rugged mountains, their summits veiled in clouds, of purple sea with the white surf beating eternally against the reefs, whiter still in the yellow sunlight or the magical moonlight of the tropics.”
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Manifestly, too, a proof established on firm grounds of reason must be drawn not from signs and loose general arguments, but from suitable and necessary causes.
— from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

[Planks a five-copeck piece down on the counter] A glass of real Madeira!
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Wherefore stand by me, prevent judicial proceedings from going on regarding money.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

xxiv.): now he, that acts under the guidance of reason, must necessarily know that he so acts (II. xliii.).
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

And he who obeys this law will do a noble action; but he who will not obey, and gives or receives more than fifty drachmae as the price of the marriage garments if he be of the lowest, or more than a mina, or a mina-and-a-half, if he be of the third or second classes, or two minae if he be of the highest class, shall owe to the public treasury a similar sum, and that which is given or received shall be sacred to Here and Zeus; and let the treasurers of these Gods exact the money, as was said before about the unmarried—that the treasurers of Here were to exact the money, or pay the fine themselves.
— from Laws by Plato

Mr. Brocklehurst, who, from his wealth and family connections, could not be overlooked, still retained the post of treasurer; but he was aided in the discharge of his duties by gentlemen of rather more enlarged and sympathising minds: his office of inspector, too, was shared by those who knew how to combine reason with strictness, comfort with economy, compassion with uprightness.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

"Look at Rob's face, and you can tell that he's [Pg 295] feeling more or less satisfied with the way things are going on," replied Merritt.
— from The Boy Scouts on Belgian Battlefields by John Henry Goldfrap

But as a matter of fact we give our readers more live, entertaining, and respectful matter about society people than any other paper in New York.
— from No. 13 Washington Square by Leroy Scott

Not simply the gravity of responsible manhood, it was that, and something else.
— from The Doctor : A Tale of the Rockies by Ralph Connor

He would pick up on the march a few battalions from the garrison of Rahova, make for Plevna, and there join the division of Hassan Hairi Pasha, who would quit Nicopolis without waiting for the enemy's attack.
— from Under the Red Crescent Adventures of an English Surgeon with the Turkish Army at Plevna and Erzeroum 1877-1878 by John Sandes

The rest was question of gear; of running machinery; of economy; and involved no disputed principle.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Mrs. Mary Morrissy had been married for quite a time to a gentleman of respectable mentality, a sufficiency of money, and a surplus of leisure—Good things?
— from Here are Ladies by James Stephens

Till the storm of life is past, Safe into the haven guide, O receive my soul at last.
— from Tommy by Joseph Hocking

On the 21st of September, 1776, William Gordon of Roxbury, Mass., wrote,— The Virginians begin their Declaration of Rights with saying,'that all men are born equally free and independent, and have certain inherent natural rights, of which they cannot, by any compact, deprive themselves or their posterity; among which are the enjoyment of life and liberty .'
— from History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens by George Washington Williams