M Y readers may perhaps be disappointed that so far we have but few records of noble deeds or great wars, and that instead of individual heroes we have been chiefly interested in large movements of races and religions.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

The family in a barbarous age remains sacrosanct and traditional; nothing in its law, manners, or ritual is open to amendment.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

In particular Saning Sari is represented by certain stalks or grains called indoea padi, that is, literally, “Mother of Rice,” a name that is often given to the guardian spirit herself.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

The suffix -so- is also found with some roots in -l- , -m- , or -r- and a few others: as, pulsus ( 159 ).
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

I liked my own room, and I didn’t like the Cutters’ house under any circumstances; but Tony looked so troubled that I consented to try this arrangement.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

But the great defect of the time was that this newly liberated spirit of free inquiry was not kept in check by any sufficient previous discipline in logical methods of reasoning.
— from Elizabethan Demonology An Essay in Illustration of the Belief in the Existence of Devils, and the Powers Possessed By Them, as It Was Generally Held during the Period of the Reformation, and the Times Immediately Succeeding; with Special Reference to Shakspere and His Works by Thomas Alfred Spalding

Describing the Aurora of February 4, 1872, at Frant, Dr. Allnatt says:—“At a later hour of the night the canopy of cirro-stratus had separated, and was transformed into luminous masses of radiant cumulus.
— from Auroræ: Their Characters and Spectra by J. Rand Capron

He enters Exeter Conversation of the King with the Bishops Disturbances in London Men of Rank begin to repair to the Prince Lovelace Colchester; Abingdon Desertion of Cornbury Petition of the Lords for a Parliament The King goes to Salisbury Seymour; Court of William at Exeter Northern Insurrection Skirmish at Wincanton Desertion of Churchill and Grafton Retreat of the Royal Army from Salisbury Desertion of Prince George and Ormond Flight of the Princess Anne Council of Lords held by James
— from The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Many were the expeditions to points of interest; to Neckarsteinach and the Robbers' Nest, to the village of Dilsberg, perched upon the peak which even the bold Tilly had found unconquerable in peasant hands; to Handschuhsheim, where sleeps the last of his race, the boy-lord slain in duel with the fierce Baron of Hirschhorn, who himself awaits the judgment in the crypt of St. Kilian, at Heilbronn, holding in his skeleton hand a scroll, telling how the Mother's Curse pursued him to where he lies; to the Black Forest, now so smiling, but which Cæsar found dark, cold and gloomy, with its later memories of ruthless knights whose monuments are the grim ruins that crown the vineclad hills, and with present lore of gnomes and brownies.
— from Mr. Claghorn's Daughter by Hilary Trent

" Thus, in its last moments of resistance, the German Army, now but the ghost of itself, was scattered by the ghost of a Tank!
— from Fields of Victory by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

In like manner of reasoning, everything we behold carries in itself the internal evidence that it did not make itself.
— from The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine

In Latin, Mater or Rotula .
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 (of 7) — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer