In old days, when the Aino went out hunting and killed a fox first, they took care to tie its mouth up tightly in order to prevent the ghost of the animal from sallying forth and warning its fellows against the approach of the hunter.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Thus, they spend their energies in getting up and out rather than in lamenting the inconveniences of the place where they are and trying to improve it.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

Getting information of the proximity of the enemy, I informed Meade, and without waiting to see Burnside, at once moved forward my headquarters to where Meade was.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

(All this is impossible with us, quoth Dr. Slop, turning to my father,—the case could not happen in our church.—It happens in ours, however, replied my father, but too often.—I own, quoth Dr. Slop, (struck a little with my father's frank acknowledgment)—that a man in the Romish church may live as badly;—but then he cannot easily die so.—'Tis little matter, replied my father, with an air of indifference,—how a rascal dies.—I mean, answered Dr. Slop, he would be denied the benefits of the last sacraments.—Pray how many have you in all, said my uncle Toby,—for I always forget?—Seven, answered Dr. Slop.—Humph!—said my uncle Toby; tho' not accented as a note of acquiescence,—but as an interjection of that particular species of surprize, when a man in looking into a drawer, finds more of a thing than he expected.—Humph! replied my uncle Toby.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

‘I was, sir,’ replied Job, heaving a deep sigh; ‘I was the idol of the place.’
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

For he asserts that they are necessary, in order to present our prayers to the gods, and yet their works are such as we must shun if we wish our prayers to reach the true God.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Different principles would be set up by different States for this purpose; and as they would affect the opposite interests of the parties, they might not easily be susceptible of a pacific adjustment.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

The fact that the material position of the theatrical undertaking was assured exercised a healthy influence on the performances.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

The mountaineers of Java use an infusion of the powdered root and the bark of the Cinnamomum Culilowan to treat puerperal eclampsia.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

I would never even have spoken to you of my misfortunes, had you not piqued me a little, and if it were not customary to tell stories on board a ship in order to pass away the time.
— from Candide by Voltaire

This manner of providing for the poor seems to have been continued to the beginning of the Civil war, and, in addition to looking after the steward and the inmates of the poor and work house, the inspectors (more frequently recorded overseers o
— from The History of the City of Fredericksburg, Virginia by S. J. (Silvanus Jackson) Quinn

But even Roger had no inkling of the possibility of Costigan's "Service Special" phones, detectors and spy-ray--instruments of minute size and of infinitesimal power, but yet instruments which, working as they were, below the level of the ether, were effective at great distances and caused no vibrations in the ether by which their use could be detected.
— from Triplanetary by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

Mr. B. said he did not know how the banking interest of the present day would relish a proposition to make them contribute to the support of the government.
— from Thirty Years' View (Vol. 2 of 2) or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850 by Thomas Hart Benton

PARFUMER un vaisseau , to smoke a ship, and sluice her with vinegar between decks, in order to purify her, and expel the putrified air.
— from An Universal Dictionary of the Marine Or, a Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Employed in the Construction, Equipment, Furniture, Machinery, Movements, and Military Operations of a Ship. Illustrated With Variety of Original Designs of Shipping, in Different Situations; Together With Separate Views of Their Masts, Sails, Yards, and Rigging. to Which Is Annexed, a Translation of the French Sea-terms and Phrases, Collected from the Works of Mess. Du Hamel, Aubin, Saverien, &c. by William Falconer

As one by one the Rajah's guests took their departure in order to prepare for the evening's festivities, he gave up his last hope.
— from The Native Born; or, the Rajah's People by I. A. R. (Ida Alexa Ross) Wylie

Once again the alarm of cholera woke up the Vestries, and some of the recorded results of such wakening are an illuminating exposure of the normal state of inaction on their part, and of the chronic insanitary condition of their parishes not revealed at other times.
— from The Sanitary Evolution of London by Henry (Henry Lorenzo) Jephson

43 “Yes, and he must have come out by a roundabout way in order to prevent our seeing him.
— from The Flying Machine Boys in the Wilds; Or, The Mystery of the Andes by Frank Walton

"And so you claim a verse of me, good friend, As from the inspiration of the place; Well then,—from pastoral trash may taste defend Your pleasant Leasowes, and the human race!
— from My Life as an Author by Martin Farquhar Tupper

He rose rapidly in the classes, and at the end of nine months his father took him away in order to place him as a pupil with a neighboring clergyman.
— from Daniel Webster by Henry Cabot Lodge

But as we were all both tired and hungry, we welcomed even these; and only begged to learn where we must address ourselves, in order to procure some food with as little delay as possible.
— from The City of the Sultan; and Domestic Manners of the Turks, in 1836, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Miss (Julia) Pardoe