Two observers have seen pouting with the children of Hindoos; three, with those of the Kafirs and Fingoes of South Africa, and with the Hottentots; and two, with the children of the wild Indians of North America.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

—The religion of the martial Rajput, and the rites of Hara, the god of battle, are little analogous to those of 82 the meek Hindus, the followers of the pastoral divinity, the worshippers of kine, and feeders on fruits, herbs, and water.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

when the romans transferred their camp to a certain spot from which they could get food more easily, philip decided that they had shifted position out of fear of him; therefore he attacked them unexpectedly while they were engaged in plundering and killed a few of them.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

Mullins and Alf Mason and many another ruffian long known and feared on the Spanish Main.
— from Peter Pan by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

Never affect a foolish reserve in a mixed company, keeping aloof from others as if in a state of mental abstraction.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

But when one told him that Ptolemy had a son just born, and that all the principal men of Syria, and the other countries subject to him, were to keep a festival, on account of the child's birthday, and went away in haste with great retinues to Alexandria, he was himself indeed hindered from going by old age; but he made trial of his sons, whether any of them would be willing to go to the king.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

For a man that was no saint, but, as we say, a gentleman, of civilian and ordinary manners, and of a moderate ambition, the richest life that I know, and full of the richest and most to be desired parts, all things considered, is, in my opinion, that of Alcibiades.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

But the holy angels, towards whose society and assembly we sigh while in this our toilsome pilgrimage, as they already abide in their eternal home, so do they enjoy perfect facility of knowledge and felicity of rest.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

The solitary stone, still called the King Stone, is the ambitious monarch; the circle is his army; and the Five Whispering Knights are five of his chieftains, who were hatching a plot against him when the magic spell was uttered.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

“You jest keep a few of them fancy trimmin’s against the next time you meet Hoss.
— from Lost Farm Camp by Henry Herbert Knibbs

On the whole, I have no doubt the plan you have laid down will answer, and I do not at present see the smallest occasion to accept your kind and friendly offer of coming here.
— from William Pitt and the Great War by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

Why, none, why, none- a slipper and subtle knave, a finder out of occasions, that has an eye can stamp and counterfeit advantages, though true advantage never present itself- a devilish knave!
— from The Tragedy of Othello, Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare

In the case of the spear-fish it is bony, being a prolongation of the skull; in the case of the swordfish it is horny, and horns, as you probably know, are formations of skin rather than bone.
— from The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries by Francis Rolt-Wheeler

Foxes, as you know, are fond of chicken and other fowl; so they served chicken soup and roasted turkey and stewed duck and fried grouse and broiled quail and goose pie, and as the cooking was excellent the King's guests enjoyed the meal and ate heartily of the various dishes.
— from The Road to Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

They afterwards dwelt in Kuban, and finally on the Danube, where they subdued (about the year 500) the Slavo-Servians established on the Lower Danube.
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 by Edward Gibbon

Kitty alone fought out the battle of that ride; her mistress was beyond all but keeping upon the faithful animal’s back.
— from The Hound From The North by Ridgwell Cullum

So the name might be a shortening of some such a combination as Gilla-min , ‘the attendant of Min or Men ,’ a name we have also in Mocu-Min , ‘Min’s Kin,’ a family or sept so called more than once by Adamnan.
— from Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx (Volume 2 of 2) by Rhys, John, Sir

It also indicates that the head and staff of the crozier were separable, and, when stored in the vestry, kept apart from one another: 'In primis a hede of one busshopes staffe of sylver and gylte wᵗ one knop and perles & other stones havyng a Image of owʳ savyowʳ of the one syde and a Image of sent John Baptiste of the other syde wanting xxj stones & perles wᵗ one bose [boss] and one sokett weyng xviij unces.
— from Ecclesiastical Vestments: Their development and history by Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister

Frequently he went down to the cooper's shop and kindled a fire out of the waste material lying about, and by the light it afforded read until far into the night.
— from Abraham Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Volume 1 (of 2) by William Henry Herndon