On glittering gates, on ramparts raised By giant hands, the chieftains gazed.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

7 The first reference is to the celebrated mounds on the Ohio near Moundsville, below Wheeling, West Virginia; the other is doubtless to a noted burial mound described by Jefferson in 1781 as then existing near his home, on the low grounds of Rivanna river opposite the site of an ancient Indian town.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

CONVENTION, National, in what case to be summoned, demanded by some, determined on, Deputies elected, constituted, motions in, work to be done, hated, politeness, effervescence of, on September Massacres, guard for, try the King, debate on trial, invite to revolt, condemn Louis, armed Girondins in, power of, removes to Tuileries, besieged, June 2nd, 1793, extinction of Girondins, Jacobins and, on forfeited property, Carmagnole, Goddess of Reason, Representatives, at Feast of Etre Supreme, end of Robespierre, retrospect of, Feraud, Germinal, Prairial, termination, its successor.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

It was the custom for all the young women, when they arrived towards maturity, to sit in the avenue of the temple, with a girdle, or rope, round their middle; and whatever passenger laid hold of it was entitled to lead them away.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

-lo- , N. -lu-s : aureo-lo- , N. aureo-lu-s , all gold , of precious gold , of red red gold , good as gold ( aureo- ); ebrio-lu-s , tipsy ( ebrio- ); parvo-lu-s , or parvu-lu-s , smallish ( parvo- ); frīgidu-lu-s , chilly ( frigido- ); vet-ulus , little old ( vet- ); tenellu-lu-s , soft and sweet ( tenello- , tenero- ); pulchel-lus , sweet pretty ( pulchro- ); bel-lu-s , bonny ( bono- ); novel-lu-s , newborn ( *novolo- , novo- ).
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

From this point of view, it is readily seen how that group of regularly repeated acts which form the cult get their importance.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Theology itself had filled the world with other devils by diabolising all the gods and goddesses of rival religions, and the compassionate heart was thus left free to select such forms or fair names as preserved some remnant of ancient majesty around them, or some ray from their once divine halo, and pray or hope for their pardon and salvation.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

But Balin answered him 'Old fabler, these be fancies of the churl, Look to thy woodcraft,' and so leaving him, Now with slack rein and careless of himself, Now with dug spur and raving at himself, Now with droopt brow down the long glades he rode; So marked not on his right a cavern-chasm Yawn over darkness, where, nor far within, The whole day died, but, dying, gleamed on rocks Roof-pendent, sharp; and others from the floor, Tusklike, arising, made that mouth of night Whereout the Demon issued up from Hell.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

"They were talking very loud," replied Rebecca evasively, yet with an answering gleam of ready response to the other's curiosity in the quick lift of her soft blue eyes.
— from The Wind in the Rose-Bush, and Other Stories of the Supernatural by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

Now the Alban dynasty bore the name of Silvii or Wood, and it can hardly be without significance that in the vision of the historic glories of Rome revealed to Aeneas in the underworld, Virgil, an antiquary as well as a poet, should represent all the line of Silvii as crowned with oak.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Soon others appeared here and there, and sang it mattered not how or where,—soaring or beating the wings, on a grass stem, the top of a tree, hidden in the grass, or rudely rocked by the wind, they "sang and sang and sang."
— from Little Brothers of the Air by Olive Thorne Miller

Through the counties of Bedford and Somerset, the road, being generally on ridges, runs through a poor country, to which the market afforded by the wagons, is essential.
— from The Rural Magazine, and Literary Evening Fire-Side, Vol. 1 No. 03 (1820) by Various

Undoubtedly it is France's prime offence in German eyes; and her colonial policy has only been attacked as a pretext for picking a quarrel and forcing on a decisive trial of strength before the growth of Russian resources should have made her ally impregnable.
— from Why We Are at War (2nd Edition, revised) by University of Oxford. Faculty of Modern History

Next year Dámáji, at the request of Tárábái, guardian of Rám Rája, ascended the Salpi ghát with a strong force, defeated the Peshwa’s army, and advanced as far as Sátára.
— from History of Gujarát Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Volume I, Part I. by James M. Campbell

THE PRIESTS.—The priests are the guardians of religious rites.
— from Outlines of Universal History, Designed as a Text-book and for Private Reading by George Park Fisher

Harold and Robert and Richard accompanied him as pages, each wearing a beautiful suit of velvet and gold, and each riding on a fine little white pony, the gift of Red Rex.
— from Kisington Town by Abbie Farwell Brown

Here, then, is a righteousness that Christ, as God, as man, as God-man, has no need of, with reference to Himself, and therefore He can spare it; a justifying righteousness, that He for Himself wanteth not, and therefore He giveth it away; hence it is called 'the gift of righteousness' (Rom. 5:17).
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan

Cold, passionless, more given to deep concentrated thought than expression, holding silence as a golden gift—even as a gift of rare rubies—nothing drew from him an unguarded word, no sudden turmoil quivered his nerve.
— from Thoroughbreds by William Alexander Fraser