The association between the jungle and cannibalism on the one hand, and between the sea and abstention from human flesh on the other, is the same as the one in the Kudayuri myth.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Sat Bhai has many members, and perhaps before they jolly-well-cut-your-throat they may give you just a chance of life.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

But my mind was full of our conversation, and as I went on pondering over the matter, I thought that Yusuf might be right in his opinion as to the essence of God, for it seemed evident that the Creator of all beings ought to be perfectly simple; but I thought at the same time how impossible it would be for me, because the Christian religion had made a mistake, to accept the Turkish creed, which might perhaps have just a conception of God, but which caused me to smile when I recollected that the man who had given birth to it had been an arrant imposter.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

And such judges and chiefs of judges will be worthy of receiving praise from the whole city.
— from Laws by Plato

She had indeed but too just a cause of indignation from what he had done, while her boldness proceeded from his affection to her; so she openly reproached him with what he had done to her grandfather Hyrcanus, and to her brother Aristobulus; for he had not spared this Aristobulus, though he were but a child; for when he had given him the high priesthood at the age of seventeen, he slew him quickly after he had conferred that dignity upon him; but when Aristobulus had put on the holy vestments, and had approached to the altar at a festival, the multitude, in great crowds, fell into tears; whereupon the child was sent by night to Jericho, and was there dipped by the Galls, at Herod's command, in a pool till he was drowned.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

Meru stands in the centre of Jambudwípa and consequently of the earth.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

So he came to the city Jezreel; and in a little time the air was all obscured, and covered with clouds, and a vehement storm of wind came upon the earth, and with it a great deal of rain; and the prophet was under a Divine fury, and ran along with the king's chariot unto Jezreel a city of Izar 35 [Issaachar].
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

The moment Ivan set eyes upon us he shrank away, half in earnest and half in jest, and called out,— “Hey, look at the mazuntchick !
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

Wonderfully clever of him: but the Indians are just as clever on their side.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

He gave him also Julias, a city of Perea, with fourteen villages that lay about it.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

The first volume appeared in 1792, with the title “The Holy Bible, or the Books accounted sacred by Jews and Christians; otherwise called the Books of the Old and New Covenants, faithfully translated from corrected texts of the Originals, with various readings, explanatory notes, and critical remarks.”
— from Lectures on Bible Revision by Samuel Newth

'Walk?' he seemed to say; and old Jolyon answered: “Come on, old chap!”
— from Five Tales by John Galsworthy

The general court impowered to erect judicatories and courts of record.
— from Novanglus, and Massachusettensis or, Political Essays, Published in the Years 1774 and 1775, on the Principal Points of Controversy, between Great Britain and Her Colonies by Daniel Leonard

I forget exactly the trend of talk at that particular moment, but as we talked 465 for just a couple of minutes, or at any rate as we talked, I told him I had met his wife at the Paine's over in Irving and that he had a beautiful little girl, he should be real proud of them.
— from Warren Commission (09 of 26): Hearings Vol. IX (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

If you do not immediately comply with my request, I will unfrock you, by God!—ELIZABETH R.'" "Our good neighbor," saith Polly, "must show a like patience with Job, and cry out touching his bishopric, 'The queen did give it; the queen doth take it away; the will of the queen be done.'" "He is like to be encroached upon yet further by yon cunning Sir Christopher," Mr. Wells said; "I'll warrant Ely Place will soon be Hatton Garden." "Well, for a neighbor," answered Polly, "I'd as soon have the queen's lids as her hedge-bishop, and her sheep as her shepherd.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

When life seems to get into such a snarl that we despair of disentangling it, a long journey and change of human surroundings enable us to take a distant view, which not uncommonly shows the tangle to be no tangle at all.
— from As a Matter of Course by Annie Payson Call

had just appointed (31st July) a commission of three Cardinals for the government of the Roman States, when General Oudinot arrived at Gaeta, and urged the Pope to return himself to his capital.
— from Pius IX. And His Time by Æneas MacDonell Dawson

Having thus provided security for his benefactor, he joined a corps of blacks, under the orders of General Biassou; but was soon raised to the principal command, Biassou being degraded on account of his cruelty and ferocity.
— from An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans by Lydia Maria Child

For the next few days every Spaniard one met had some startling news to tell, until, by the end of the week, a reaction set in, and amidst jokes and copitas of spirits, the idea that the Coloocan affair was the prelude to a rebellion was utterly ridiculed.
— from The Philippine Islands A Political, Geographical, Ethnographical, Social and Commercial History of the Philippine Archipelago, Embracing the Whole Period of Spanish Rule by Foreman, John, F.R.G.S.

I appreciate the justice and courtesy of your attitude toward me, and I thank you for it."
— from The Diamond Pin by Carolyn Wells