The Kurumba is the necromancer of the hills, [ 233 ] and believed to be possessed of the power of outraging women, removing their livers, and so causing their death, while the wound heals by magic, so that no trace of the operation is left.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

Neither would I have built my small hospital nor bought land nor invited my family to live with me.
— from The Philippines a Century Hence by José Rizal

Joe soon arrived in his uniform and a state of violent excitement, accompanied by his best man, Sergeant Malcolm Crawford.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Curiosity having been my prevailing Passion, and indeed the sole Entertainment of my Life, I have sometimes made it my business to examine the Course of Intreagues as well as the Manners and Accomplishments of such as have been most successful that Way.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

One of the priests set the woman at the gates that are turned towards the temple, and took the veil from her head, and wrote the name of God on parchment, and enjoined her to swear that she had not at all injured her husband; and to wish that, if she had violated her chastity, her right thigh might be put out of joint; that her belly might swell; and that she might die thus: but that if her husband, by the violence of his affection, and of the jealousy which arose from it, had been rashly moved to this suspicion, that she might bear a male child in the tenth month.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

“There was others at her before me,” said Corley philosophically.
— from Dubliners by James Joyce

Thus, in the past six centuries there have been many Spanish poets of real worth; and yet in the list of the world's supreme poets no Spanish name appears.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

This was no new arrangement, but a thing that had befallen many scores of times.
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

has any harm befallen my son?"
— from Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

"As the present Appearance of Things is not joyous, I have been much shut up from outward Cheerfulness, remembering that Promise, 'Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord:'—As this, from Day to Day, has been revived in my Memory, I have considered that his internal Presence on our Minds is a Delight, of all others, the most pure; and that the Honest-hearted not only delight in this, but in the Effect of it upon them.
— from The Journal, with Other Writings of John Woolman by John Woolman

The piece could not consistently have been more strongly guarded, however, than it was, for every available man was needed in the assault on the camp.
— from The Battle of the Big Hole A History of General Gibbon's Engagement with Nez Percés Indians in the Big Hole Valley, Montana, August 9th, 1877. by G. O. (George O.) Shields

Moses ben Hanoch lived long as president of the schools, and his son, Hanoch ben Moses, succeeded him.
— from Outlines of Jewish History from B.C. 586 to C.E. 1885 by Magnus, Katie, Lady

There is a handsome black marble slab, bordered with white, and fine palings around.’
— from A Lady of England: The Life and Letters of Charlotte Maria Tucker by Agnes Giberne

But when, in the autumn, Joseph evacuated all the western provinces, Grouchy, whose health had been much shaken by the Polish campaign, was granted leave of absence and took care not to be sent back, for he had seen enough of the Spanish to foresee the terrible difficulties of guerilla warfare; moreover, the annexation of the country was contrary to his ideas of political justice.
— from Napoleon's Marshals by R. P. Dunn-Pattison

You will find that, after you have been married some years, and told each other everything you did and saw before you met, there isn't really anything to talk about at meals except food.
— from Second Plays by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne

41 This rule has been modified so as to specify the questions entitled to preference.
— from The Legislative Manual, of the State of Colorado Comprising the History of Colorado, Annals of the Legislature, Manual of Customs, Precedents and Forms, Rules of Parliamentary Parliamentary Practice, and the Constitutions of the United States and the History of Colorado, Annals of the Legislature, Manual of Customs, Precedents and Forms, Rules of Parliamentary Practice, and the Constitutions of the United States and the State of Colorado. Also, Chronological Table of American History, Lists and Tables for Reference, Biographies, Etc. by Thomas B. Corbett

These, however are all errors in the direction of sublimity of effect; and though greater balance would have been more satisfactory, the chapel is internally so beautiful that it is impossible not to overlook them.
— from A History of Architecture in All Countries, Volume 2, 3rd ed. From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by James Fergusson