Take black cloth, five cubits long, fumigate it, and wave it thrice round the head with the right hand from left to right, repeating the following invocation ( sĕrapah ):— “O Grandfather ‘Batin’ 266 the Elder, In whose charge are caverns and hill-locked basins,
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

But at this point another almost incredible scene of grotesque buffoonery gave the finishing touch to the episode.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The old remark, "As the schoolmaster is, so will be the school," is as true of the indirect schooling of grown people by public business as of the schooling of youth in academies and colleges.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

A mine is she of gems and sheen, The darling home of Fortune's Queen.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

However passionately I love a woman, if she only gives me to feel that I have to marry her—then farewell, love!
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

I have no hope of ever being settled; and if I was to part with Rebecca, I should only get something worse.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

At last, to relieve him, the professors, and myself, I stammered out: "Gentlemen, you had better let me go; you will get no good of me; as you say, I am an idiot."
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Arthur May Knapp very truly says: "In Hebrew literature it is often difficult to tell whether the writer is speaking of God or of the Commonwealth; of heaven or of Jerusalem; of the Messiah or of the nation itself."
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

I speak of Gi-ri , literally the Right Reason, but which came in time to mean a vague sense of duty which public opinion expected an incumbent to fulfil.
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

Myself, and all the angelick host, that stand In sight of God, enthroned, our happy state Hold, as you yours, while our obedience holds; On other surety none: Freely we serve, Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall:
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

It seemed of great weight, but they raised it and put it to one side.
— from Abbé Aubain and Mosaics by Prosper Mérimée

The sun was sinking in shrouds of gray when we passed the portcullis at Roche-Mauprat.
— from Mauprat by George Sand

There is an inn where one is sure of getting a passable breakfast of fish and eggs; a “Grande Place” which, paradoxically, is not grand at all; and a humble little church which is not bad in its way.
— from Rambles on the Riviera by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

No, no, Wolfstrom; I am no believer in spirits, or ghosts, or phantasms, or necromancers, or any sort of portents, except the wonders to be effected by strong wits and strong arms."
— from One in a Thousand; or, The Days of Henri Quatre by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

But in spite of good luck, discipline and desperation, we were far from having the battle all our own way.
— from The Apple of Discord by Earle Ashley Walcott

Edward I. favoured early marriages, and his ninth daughter, Eleanor, was only four days old, it is stated on good authority, “when her father [Pg 204] arranged to espouse her to the son and heir of Otho, late Earl of Burgundy and Artois, a child in custody of his mother, the Duchess of Burgundy.”
— from Old Church Lore by William Andrews

In the second room, human passion, power, and tyranny were illustrated in scenes of Greek heroic life from the Iliad .
— from The History of Modern Painting, Volume 1 (of 4) Revised edition continued by the author to the end of the XIX century by Richard Muther

to most a plain In which men roam in search of gain; They build, they plant, they heap up store, They work, they toil, they strive for more, Nor joys nor comforts will desire: Their wish, they say, is to retire,
— from The Anglican Friar, and the Fish which he Took by Hook and by Crook A Comic Legend by active 19th century Novice

Since, my pistol on the table beside me, I sat on guard at the window, and Smith, also armed, watched the outer door, it was not apparent by what agency the shadowy enemy could hope to come at us.
— from The Hand of Fu-Manchu Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor by Sax Rohmer

Sir John, hearing of their coming to his house of Killin, he caused his servants put on a great fyre of ffresh arn wood newly cutt, which when they came in (sitting on great jests of wood which he caused sett there a purpose) made such a reek that they were almost blinded, and were it not the night was so ill they would rather goe than byde it.
— from History of the Mackenzies, with genealogies of the principal families of the name by Alexander Mackenzie