But, if the gods their sure success foretell; If those of heav’n consent with those of hell, To promise Italy; who dare debate The pow’r of Jove, or fix another fate?
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

I tried to make out to myself that I warn’t to blame, because I didn’t run Jim off from his rightful owner; but it warn’t no use, conscience up and says, every time, “But you knowed he was running for his freedom, and you could a paddled ashore and told somebody.”
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The plant does not grow in their country, and has to be fetched every year by men who make a journey of forty-three days for the purpose.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Jutaculla rock : See Jutaculla old fields.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

After we had jogged on for some little time, I asked the carrier if he was going all the way.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

A similar despair, when it is arrived at by a diseased character or an impure soul, may issue in the most disastrous consequences though with the most superb manifestations; and [Pg xvi] thus we get Gulliver's Travels ; but in Pascal we find no such distortion; his despair is in itself more terrible than Swift's, because our heart tells us that it corresponds exactly to the facts and cannot be dismissed as mental disease; but it was also a despair which was a necessary prelude to, and element in, the joy of faith.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

Sidonius of Auvergne was not a subject of Theodoric; but he might be compelled to solicit either justice or favor at the court of Thoulouse.]
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Margry on Cherokee relations with Choctaw 390 Marion , aid given to, by Sevier 211 Marriage , acculturation through xxiii–xxiv Marriage , Cherokee customs relating to 481 – 482 Marshall, John , decision of, in Worcester v. State of Georgia 119 – 120 Martin, Joseph , on Cherokee temper in 1786 63 Martin, Joseph on encroachments of Tennesseeans 64 Martin, Joseph on French and Spanish encouragement of Cherokee hostility 62 Martin, Joseph on Sevier’s expedition (1781) 59 [ 563 ] Martin, Joseph , treaty signed by 61 Martin , Gen. ——, expedition against Cherokee under 65 Martin , ——, on expedition from Virginia through Cherokee country 30 Martin , myths concerning 287 , 454 Maryland , production of gold in 220 Maryville , attack on 65 Mason, J. M. , on Cherokee opposition to removal project 128 Matthews , Dr Washington , on Navaho myths 229 , 443 , 447 – 448 , 468 , 501 Matthews , Dr Washington , study of fraternities and cults by xlvii Maumee rapids , effect of battle of 81 Maumee rapids , participation of Cherokee in battle of 79 Mauvila , battle of 96 , 191 Maya , myths of 451 Maya , memoir on calendar system of xlii–xliii May apple in Cherokee lore 420 Mayes , Chief J. B., proposition for land cession made to 153 Meadow lark , Cherokee name for 281 Meadow lark , myth concerning 467 Mechanic arts among Cherokee 104 , 112 Mechanic arts among East Cherokee 166 – 167 Medicine , myths concerning 250 – 252 , 435 – 436 “ Medicine ,” tribal, of Cherokee 396 – 397 , 503 “ Medicine ”, war, Indian beliefs concerning 393 – 394 , 501 Medill , W., on Catawba among East Cherokee 165 Medill , W. on East Cherokee censuses 167 Meek on De Soto’s route 192 , 193 , 197 , 198 Meherrin , habitat and migrations of 17 Meigs , Gen. R. J., aid given to missionary work by 84 Meigs , Gen. R. J., delegation brought to Washington by (1898) 106 Meigs , Gen. R. J., instructions to, to cause removal of Cherokee to the West 101 Meigs , Gen. R. J., life of 214 – 215 Meigs , Gen. R. J. on Cherokee attitude in war of 1812 89 Meigs , Gen. R. J. on Cherokee services in Creek war 97 Meigs , Gen. R. J. on secret article of treaty of 1807 86 Meigs , Gen. R. J., recommendation for Cherokee citizenship by 114 Meigs , Gen. R. J., treaties brought about by 84 – 85 Melody , development of lxxi Memphis , surrender of Spanish post at 81 Menendez , establishment of fort by 27 Menendez on Pardo’s expedition 28 , 29 Menstruation in Cherokee myth and belief 319 – 320 , 469 Meredith on adoption of Cherokee constitution 113 Meredith on John Ross 114 , 224 Meriwether , Gen. David , treaty signed by 103 Mesa Encantada , exploration of xiii “ Mescal ,” see Peyote .
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Again the divines, at Olivares' bidding, began wrangling over the form and substance of James' oath; for Hinojosa, the Spanish ambassador in England, had reported unfavourably upon the real intentions of James towards the Catholics, and three weeks more passed before the whole marriage treaty was embodied in a formal document, which Charles, on the 28th August (7th September), swore solemnly on the Gospels in the hands of the Patriarch of the Indies to fulfil, whilst Philip simply promised that the marriage should take place when the Pope's consent arrived , in which case the Infanta should be sent to England in the following spring.
— from The Court of Philip IV.: Spain in Decadence by Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp) Hume

For ever so little space—in gaps of the reading—between the vulgar wit of Nym, and the Welsh jargon of Fluellen, you hear the crack of artillery, and see shivered spears and tossing plumes.
— from English Lands, Letters and Kings, vol. 1: From Celt to Tudor by Donald Grant Mitchell

On the night of the 13th, McPherson was ordered to march at early dawn upon Jackson, only fifteen miles away.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

Hence true statesmen who judge our Federal or State constitutions from the viewing-point of reason alone agree with Catholics in opposition to the so-called “Evangelicals,” the chief of whom believe in “total depravity,” the loss of free will, and unmerited damnation.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 19, April 1874‐September 1874 by Various

Climbing with light quick steps a knoll from which there was a broader prospect, Phil came unawares upon a great thick adder, which lay sunning its tawny flanks and black-marked back but which slipped away into a thicket at the jar of footsteps.
— from The Dark Frigate by Charles Boardman Hawes

Rage and anger, and their physical expression, become by habit a sort of joy, similar to the joy in intoxication, but if only the habit can be formed the other way there is an equal joy obtainable from self-restraint.
— from To-morrow? by Victoria Cross

Again, in his 'Introduction to the Skill of Musick,' John Playford complains: "Our late and solemn musick, both vocal and instrumental, is now justl'd out of esteem by the new Corants and Jigs of foreigners, to the grief of all sober and judic
— from Musical Myths and Facts, Volume 1 (of 2) by Carl Engel

He had reason to be confident, and his scientific Junto of four, Martin Behaim of Nuremburg among them, to whom Columbus was referred, were too much elated with their new improvements in the astrolabe, and the now assured confidence that the Southern Cape would soon be passed.
— from Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work. by C. Raymond (Charles Raymond) Beazley

EDWARD RECEIVING KING JOHN OF FRANCE.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 1 (of 8) From the Roman Invasion to the Wars of the Roses by Anonymous

The next instant the great beast's legs were jerked out from under him and with a roar of rage he turned a complete somersault and crashed to the ground, every bit of his wrath jarred out of him by the stunning impact.
— from The Boy Scout Fire Fighters by Irving Crump