Told as it was—as it had to be—all over the department, there seemed but one thing to say, and that referred to Buxton: "Well! isn't he a phenomenal ass?" XVI.
— from The Deserter by Charles King

You have also placed an “X” in your own handwriting, and I am writing now the following: “Position of Dr. Bieberdorf at the time of shooting.”
— from Warren Commission (13 of 26): Hearings Vol. XIII (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

31; banishment of, ix. 86; driven away at the New Year, x. 134 sq. ; kept off by fire, x. 282, 285 sq. ; St. John's herbs a protection against, xi. 49; kept off by flowers gathered at Midsummer, xi. 53 sq. ; creeping through cleft trees to escape the pursuit of, xi.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer

113; Midsummer herbs a protection against, xi. 45; detected by St. John's wort, xi. 55; detected by fern root, xi. 67. See also Magic , Magicians , Medicine-men —— or priests, order of effeminate, vi. 253 sqq.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer

See also Lightning —— and lightning, imitation of, in rain-making ceremonies, i. 248, 309 sq. ; sacrifices to, v. 157; the Syrian, Assyrian, Babylonian, and Hittite god of, v. 163 sq. ; the Yule log, a protection against, x. 248, 249, 250, 252, 253, 254, 258, 264; bonfires a protection against, x. 344; smoke of Midsummer herbs a protection against, xi. 48; vervain a protection against, xi. 62; name given to bull-roarers, xi. 231 sq. —— and oak, the Aryan god of the, ii. 356 sqq. , x. 265 Thunder-beings, among the Teton Indians, viii.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer