If you do not come down, the Bear-cat shall eat you, If you do not appear, wild beasts shall devour you, If you perch upon a twig, you shall fall headlong (All over) the seven valleys and seven knolls of rising ground.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

There is another phaenomenon, which is parallel to this, viz, that acquaintance, without any kind of relation, gives rise to love and kindness.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

But however philosophers may have been bewildered in those speculations, poets have been guided more infallibly, by a certain taste or common instinct, which in most kinds of reasoning goes farther than any of that art and philosophy, with which we have been yet acquainted.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

The Indians, who always have a holyday on Sunday, were engaged at playing a kind of running game of ball, on a level piece of ground, near the houses.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

Now, seeing that there are these four arts, two attending on the body and two on the soul for their highest good; flattery knowing, or rather guessing their natures, has distributed herself into four shams or simulations of them; she puts on the likeness of some one or other of them, and pretends to be that which she simulates, and having no regard for men's highest interests, is ever making pleasure the bait of the unwary, and deceiving them into the belief that she is of the highest value to them.
— from Gorgias by Plato

THE BOAR ROASTED IN THE OVEN, IS MASKED WITH THIS SAUCE, WHICH YOU MAY USE FOR ANY KIND OF ROAST GAME
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

↑ 49 An alternative version runs:— Caller, bamboo caller, Caller of the wild doves, Over the seven valleys, seven knolls of rising ground, Re-echo the voice of my decoy.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Of that kind Our rustic garden's barren; and I care not To get slips of them.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The pulut or glutinous rice is the kind of rice generally used for sacrificial banquets, e.g. for banquets at “high places,” etc.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

One could tell that one was in a former luxurious district, which had lapsed into silence, solitude, and abandonment, instinct with a kind of religious gentleness and discretion.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete by Émile Zola

Politics were the chief topic, and a preference of kingly over republican government, was evidently the favorite sentiment.
— from Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Thomas Jefferson

They hung on in a kind of reminiscent grip, searching one another's face for changes.
— from The Stars and Stripes, Vol. 1, No. 1, February 8, 1918 The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 by United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces

Politics were the chief topic, and a preference of kingly over republican government was evidently the favorite sentiment.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 9 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

I seemed to be clothed but scantily, in some kind of ragged garments; and upon my knees I crawled toward the voice, through a place where there were other living things that crawled also—things with many legs and clammy bodies...."
— from Brood of the Witch-Queen by Sax Rohmer

IN— Rubber and Leather Belting, Hose —AND ALL KINDS OF— —RUBBER GOODS— MANUFACTURERS' AGENTS FOR GOODYEAR I. R. GLOVE CO. BOSTON BELTING CO. BOSTON WOVEN HOSE
— from A Parody on Iolanthe by D. (Davison) Dalziel

There are many, however, who, when they leave the factory in the evening, go with a kind of renovating glee to the reading of such books as opportunity brings within their reach, or to the systematic prosecution of some chosen study, such as music, botany, mechanics, or mathematics, which are favourite sciences among the working people of Lancashire.
— from Lancashire Sketches Third Edition by Edwin Waugh

Some of the negroes are black as “the ebon throne of night,” or the drear raven’s wing, others present a kind of “reddening gloom;” while many have that wan, spectral appearance, that you may fancy them suffering in the early stage of the black jaundice .
— from Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume 2 (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Mrs. Lanaghan

The old King, or rather Godoy, invoked anew the assistance of the Emperor against the treasonable, nay (for to such extremities went their mutual accusations), the parricidal plots of the heir-apparent.
— from The History of Napoleon Buonaparte by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

[L. andabata a kind of Roman gladiator, who fought hoodwinked.]
— from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1st 100 Pages) by Noah Webster