Dâtsi′yĭ : “Dâtsĭ place,” just above Eagle creek, on Little Tennessee river, between Graham and Swain counties.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Suddenly, with much jarring and jolting, an electric car came to a standstill just in front of a heavy truck that was headed in an opposite direction.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

After giving a lively description of this passion, the author discusses a variety of questions concerning it: he argues strongly against its utility, in contradiction to the peripatetics, and recommends its restraint, by many just and excellent considerations.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

J. A. Ernesti; cum eiusdem notis, et clave Ciceroniana.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

As for Cleon's idea that in punishment the claims of justice and expediency can both be satisfied, facts do not confirm the possibility of such a combination.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

He wrote afterwards: "Reasons for Renouncing Judaism and Embracing Christianity," Norwich, 1830.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

“Hurrah—ah!—ah!” rang a long-drawn shout from our ranks, and passing Bagratión and racing one another they rushed in an irregular but joyous and eager crowd down the hill at their disordered foe.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

But I could read between the lines that they were grieved at home in that I had [370] left Judaism and embraced Christianity, and thus, according to their notion, had become 'a Meshumed.'
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

Most governments are in truth private societies pitted against one another in the international arena and giving meantime at home exhibitions of eloquence and more rarely of enterprise; but the people's passions are easily enlisted in such a game, of course on the side of their own government, just as each college or region backs its own athletes, even to the extent of paying their bills.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

And he beheld and saw the souls departing after judgment at either chasm; some who came from earth, were worn and travel-stained; others, who came from heaven, were clean and bright.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

An eyelet at the termination and just above each crescent will add materially to its effectiveness.
— from Guide to Hotel Housekeeping by Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth) Palmer

“It was a just and enlightened conclusion of the affair,” said Ling, in spite of a deep feeling of no enthusiasm, “and one which surprisingly bore out your own prophecy in the matter.”
— from The Wallet of Kai Lung by Ernest Bramah

It was a sort of primary jury, and each could point with pride to the vast collection he had made of things he did not know, and had not formed or expressed an opinion about.
— from Comic History of England by Bill Nye

—Good judgment and extreme care are essential in removing centers.
— from Concrete Construction: Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette

I. Origin of kissing; the Scandinavian tradition; an old poet’s idea—Kissing in ancient Rome, and among the Jews and early Christians—Biblical kissing—Religious significance—Kissing in early England—Ancient kissing customs as described by Erasmus—The puritanical views of John Bunyan—How Adam kissed Eve—A kiss defined: By the dictionary, Shakespeare, Robert Herrick, Sidney, Coleridge—Comical and short descriptions—A grammar of kissing—The scientific reason why kisses are pleasant.
— from The Art of Kissing: Curiously, Historically, Humorously, Poetically Considered by Will Rossiter

Jane and Frances were at the davits, letting down the dinghy as Jack and Ellen came up from below, looking as Frances said rather “pale and pellucid.”
— from The Camp Fire Girls on a Yacht by Margaret Love Sanderson

After the first landing, a strong detachment of regulars and Rough Riders was thrown out, and then followed the battles of La Guasima, San Juan, and El Caney, described in detail in the previous volume of this series.
— from Fighting in Cuban Waters; Or, Under Schley on the Brooklyn by Edward Stratemeyer

Two years after he was elevated to a seat in the supreme judiciary and executive council, in consequence of the high opinion entertained of his talents by the King.
— from A Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, and of Washington and Patrick Henry With an appendix, containing the Constitution of the United States, and other documents by L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) Judson

The lady took them, as they sometimes do in French courts of justice, as "extenuating circumstances," and consented to receive the dreaded Charley.
— from Bits of Blarney by R. Shelton (Robert Shelton) Mackenzie

The celebrated Dr. Franklin, who had long warmly espoused the cause of the injured Africans, was appointed president; James Pemberton and Jonathan Penrose were appointed vice-presidents; Dr. Benjamin Rush and Tench Coxe, secretaries; James Star, treasurer; William Lewis, John D. Coxe, Miers Fisher, and William Rawle, counsellors; Thomas Harrison, Nathan Boys, James Whiteall, James Reed, John Todd, Thomas Armatt, Norris Jones, Samuel Richards, Francis Bayley, Andrew Carson, John Warner, and Jacob Shoemaker, junior, an electing commitee; and Thomas Shields, Thomas Parker, John Oldden, William Zane, John Warner, and William McElhenny, an acting commitee for carrying on the purposes of the institution.
— from The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808), Volume I by Thomas Clarkson