One of the Tyrants, (who followed the steps of John Ampudia , a notorious Villain) gave way to a grat Slaughter of Sheep the chief Food and Support of the Spaniards as well as Indians , permitting them to kill Two or Three Hundred at a time, only for their Brains, Fat, or Suet, whose Flesh was then altogether useless, and not fit to be eaten; but many Indians , the Spaniards Friends and Confederates followed them, desiring they might have the hearts to feed upon, whereupon they butchered a great many of them, for this only Reason, because they would not eat the other parts of the Body.
— from A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them. by Bartolomé de las Casas

When in the Southern Fishery, a captured Sperm Whale, after long and weary toil, is brought alongside late at night, it is not, as a general thing at least, customary to proceed at once to the business of cutting him in.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

63 If one good book can be mentioned without prejudice to the many other good books in the same field, attention can be drawn to the excellent undergraduate text which explores the present U.S. position on the press, George I. Bird and Frederic E. Merwin, The Press and Society (New York, 1951).
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

Hard upon ether came the origins Of sun and moon, whose globes revolve in air Midway between the earth and mightiest ether,— For neither took them, since they weighed too little To sink and settle, but too much to glide Along the upmost shores; and yet they are In such a wise midway between the twain As ever to whirl their living bodies round, And ever to dure as parts of the wide Whole; In the same fashion as certain members may In us remain at rest, whilst others move.
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

The demonstrations of your affection are such, the beautiful mottoes of the letter so cordially expressed, that they oblige me for ever to honour, love, and serve you sincerely, beseeching you to continue in the same firm and constant purpose, assuring you that, on my part, I will surpass it rather than make it reciprocal, if loyalty of heart and a desire to please you can accomplish this.
— from The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn; With Notes by King of England Henry VIII

Now some low, confused, uncertain sounds, leave us in the same fearful anxiety concerning their causes, that no light, or an uncertain light, does concerning the objects that surround us.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Things remained in this state for a considerable time; but at length Madam de Luxembourg carried her goodness so far as to have a desire to take one of my children from the hospital.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

And so they passed on through the quadrangle and a small courtyard, upon which looked down a lot of little windows (belonging, as his guide informed him, to some of the School-house studies), into the matron's room, where East introduced Tom to that dignitary; made him give up the key of his trunk, that the matron might unpack his linen, and told the story of the hat and of his own presence of mind: upon the relation whereof the matron laughingly scolded him for the coolest new boy in the house; and East, indignant at the accusation of newness, marched Tom off into the quadrangle, and began showing him the schools, and examining him as to his literary attainments; the result of which was a prophecy that they would be in the same form, and could do their lessons together.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

The effect of this is to substitute fortuitous and casual relationship for the more intimate and permanent associations of the smaller community.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

In Italy the society found a certain following; and Mazzini boasted half-seriously to his friends that the republican flag would be flying on the Quirinal next year.
— from The Life of Mazzini by Bolton King

This is iron of the crudest kind, and though it is often referred to as “cast iron,” it is, as a matter of fact, not used in this state for any castings, except those of the very roughest and largest kind: a certain amount of purification is requisite in most cases.
— from Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge

One of them was instantly shot dead, and the other was badly wounded, as was evident from the blood upon his blanket, as well as that which filled his tracks in the snow for a considerable distance.
— from Life of Daniel Boone, the Great Western Hunter and Pioneer by Cecil B. Hartley

He said he could—and he drove down into the street, fetched around, came back, and actually did it again.
— from Chapters from My Autobiography by Mark Twain

One result of this, in connection with that impairing of sensibility already referred to, is the scope for a curious overriding of sense-impressions by the dominant illusory percept, a process that we have [Pg 188] seen illustrated in the active sense-illusions of waking life.
— from Illusions: A Psychological Study by James Sully

Magical things, objects or actions, in their simplest forms, are charms, spells and rites; and since the ends for which they can be used are either to protect oneself or to exert power over other persons or things, each of these kinds of magic-thing may be defensive or offensive.
— from The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions by Carveth Read

Backwards and forwards, this way and that, men wandered in the search for a comfortable resting place.
— from New Zealanders at Gallipoli by Fred Waite

"Well, now, do you know I did that, till I came very near being mobbed in the street for a curiosity?
— from The Life and Beauties of Fanny Fern by William U. Moulton

“Give me the glass, and I’ll judge for myself, though it’s impossible to say for a certainty what she may be at this distance.”
— from Peter the Whaler by William Henry Giles Kingston