THE “MANANG,” OR WITCH-DOCTOR Manangs supposed to possess mysterious powers over evil spirits—Dyak theory of disease—Treatment of disease— Lupong , or box of charms— Batu Ilau — Manang performances— Pagar Api —Catching the soul—Sixteen different manang ceremonies—Killing the demon Buyu — Saut —Salampandai—Deceit of manangs —Story of a schoolboy—Smallpox and cholera—Three ceremonies of initiation—Different ranks of manangs 163-181 CHAPTER XIV NATIVE REMEDIES AND DYAK CHARMS Native remedies—Cupping—Charms—A Dyak medicine chest—Smallpox and cholera—My experience at Temudok 182-193 CHAPTER XV DYAK RELIGION Certain religious observances— Petara , or gods—Singalang Burong, the god of war—Pulang Gana, the god of the soil—Salampandai, the maker of men— Mali , or taboo—Spirits—Girgasi, the chief of evil spirits—The dogs of the spirits—Stories—Customs connected with the belief in spirits—Sacrifices— Piring and ginselan —The victim of the sacrifice generally eaten, but not always—Material benefits expected by the Dyaks by their religious ceremonies—
— from Seventeen Years Among the Sea Dyaks of Borneo A Record of Intimate Association with the Natives of the Bornean Jungles by Edwin Herbert Gomes

[163] CHAPTER XIII THE “MANANG,” OR WITCH-DOCTOR Manangs supposed to possess mysterious powers over evil spirits—Dyak theory of disease—Treatment of disease— Lupong , or box of charms— Batu Ilau — Manang performances— Pagar Api —Catching the soul—Sixteen different manang ceremonies—Killing the demon Buyu — Saut —Salampandai—Deceit of manangs —Story of a schoolboy—Smallpox and cholera—Three ceremonies of initiation—Different ranks of manangs .
— from Seventeen Years Among the Sea Dyaks of Borneo A Record of Intimate Association with the Natives of the Bornean Jungles by Edwin Herbert Gomes

In many places, pedestrians are compelled to step into the doorways of dwellings to permit the cars to pass them.
— from Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America by Maturin Murray Ballou

But I feel uneasiness in my present position, and conceive the possibility of not being constrained; or I think of some needful work which remains unexecuted as long as I sit here, and that work undone I perceive will leave my life less satisfactory than it might be.
— from The Nature of Goodness by George Herbert Palmer

Mr. Trevor’s elder son in most points presented a contrast to Vibert; as regarded ripeness of judgment, the fifteen months that separated their ages might have been as many years.
— from The Haunted Room: A Tale by A. L. O. E.