Assume, O King, a mortal birth, And strike the demon to the earth.”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Each day when thou comest to us thou givest Glow Stone ten kisses and me but a single one.’
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

Doomed to hide his bright talons In smelly kegs of kerosene An' molasses brown an' sticky.
— from Dawn by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

The hill above, known as "Mont Bédat," and surmounted with a statue of the Virgin, is a favourite walk from the town, the ascent for a moderate walker taking about forty-five minutes.
— from 'Twixt France and Spain Or, A Spring in the Pyrenees by E. Ernest Bilbrough

One may know a man better after six months with him beyond the Arctic circle than after a lifetime of acquaintance in cities.
— from The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club by Robert E. (Robert Edwin) Peary

garments; and they had boots reaching up to the knee, and Median bows and spears: of these the commander was Pherendates the son of Megabazos.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 2 by Herodotus

The spontaneous production of ketonic aldehydes from amino-acids and from hydroxy-acids in aqueous solution, which has been demonstrated by Dakin and Dudley [ 1913 ], points however to the possibility that the ketonic acid may be a secondary product derived from the corresponding ketonic aldehyde [see also Dakin, 1908 ; Neuberg, 1908 , 1909 ].
— from Alcoholic Fermentation Second Edition, 1914 by Arthur Harden

Indeed, Pelagianists, who believe that conversion is a mere outward moral improvement, effected by man's own free will; Romanists, who teach that man can and must by his own efforts and works earn the grace of God; Arminians and Synergists, who believe in man's ability to cooperate in his own conversion and salvation; Calvinists, who, denying universal grace, base their insurance on special marks of grace in their own hearts and lives; Reformedists and enthusiasts, who deny that Word and Sacraments are the only means of grace, collative as well as operative; Pietists, who insist that the terrors of conscience must be of a peculiar nature and degree, and that faith must be accompanied by a happiness and a sanctification of a special kind and measure before a sinner may fully be assured of his pardon and conversion,—they all may be, and, in fact, naturally are, in sympathy with one or the other form of New-measurism and revivalism; but Lutherans, who believe in a Gospel of real pardon and power—never.
— from American Lutheranism Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General Council, United Synod in the South) by F. (Friedrich) Bente

I. To purchase all right, title, and interest in one first class Alp known as Mount Blank, a snow-clad peak located at Switzerville, Europe.
— from Mollie and the Unwiseman Abroad by John Kendrick Bangs

She herself was imprisoned for two years for doing so; and when finally released, retired for the rest of her life to a convent at Moulins, where she was known and much beloved as “Sister Marie.”
— from Chantilly in History and Art by Luise Richter

“I want to know about my brothers and sisters: where are they, why don't they come here?”
— from Poor White: A Novel by Sherwood Anderson