The reason why women are so prominent is obvious: since most families and tribes claimed to be descended from a god, the only safe clue to their origin was through a mortal woman beloved by that god; and it has also been pointed out that 'mutterrecht' still left its traces in northern Greece in historical times.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

[376] Another circumstance which has maintained the independence, and therefore increased the value, of our literature, is, that in no great country have literary men been so little connected with the government, or rewarded by it.
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 1 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

These till the fields of their lords in the immediate neighborhood, grow grain, or herd the cattle.”
— from The State: Its History and Development Viewed Sociologically by Franz Oppenheimer

But he is not contented to leave it to its natural growth.
— from Odd People: Being a Popular Description of Singular Races of Man by Mayne Reid

[C] “The Horicon,” meaning tail lake, is the Indian name given by Cooper to Lake George.
— from The Flag, and Other Poems, 1918 by Amy Redpath Roddick