In a word, knowledge of the opposing religion, and especially of alien language, literature and ways of feeling and thinking, lengthens missionary life.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

The young girl glanced over the front of her dress and smoothed out a knot or two of ribbon.
— from Daisy Miller: A Study by Henry James

All preparations will also be complete to place the railroad-stock back of Kinston on the one road, and below the Northeast Branch on the other.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Our gods and goddesses and heroes were consigned to oblivion, and all knowledge of the Odinic religion and of the Niblung-story would have been well nigh totally obliterated had not a more lucky star hovered over the destinies of Iceland.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

2 n a keepsake or token of relationship between lovers.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

He has to expiate the deed by treating them to brandy; and, like the man who cuts the last corn, he is known as “the killer of the Old Rye-woman.”
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

The Garter itself encircling the shields of knights of that order remained the only mark of knighthood used armorially in this country for a considerable period, though we find that the example was copied in Scotland soon afterwards with regard to the Order of the Thistle.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Other Hindu princes, before they can succeed to the throne of their fathers, must receive the khushka, or tilak of regality and investiture, from them.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Now, skilled leader of men though he was, he had little knowledge of the orthodox remedies for a fainting woman.
— from The Day of Wrath: A Story of 1914 by Louis Tracy

1 They could not even protect the soil which they had conquered, and often wanted the courage to choose a king of their own race.
— from Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli

The sculptures are for the most part monuments erected by kings; and when these have a religious character, they represent the performance by the kings of their own religious duties, from which little can be concluded as to the religious observances of the people.
— from The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2: Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. by George Rawlinson

You will find crosses, inscriptions, some kind of token of remembrance on all the Indian graves.
— from Plain Tales of the North by Thierry Mallet

“I’ve kept on the outer rim so far.”
— from The Longest Journey by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

"I made it my first business to get to know our type of reader.
— from The Knack of Managing by Lewis K. Urquhart

[3] which is very common, attaching itself to all kinds of trees, often reaching to the height of from sixty to one hundred feet, and then falling down in the most beautiful festoons.
— from Travels in the Interior of Brazil Principally through the northern provinces, and the gold and diamond districts, during the years 1836-1841 by George Gardner

Wasn't that kind of that old rabbit?
— from Billy Bunny and Uncle Bull Frog by David Cory