[105] The Bretons [Pg 220] take great care not to counterfeit the dead nor to speak slightingly of them, [106] for, like fairies, they know all that is done by mortals, and can hear all that is said about them, and can take revenge.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Then, if you will elect by my advice, Crown him, and say 'Long live our Emperor!' MARCUS.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

we made Some enquireys of this young man and Cautioned him against prosueing the Steps of his brother in attempting to degrade the American Charector in the eyes of the Indians.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

And when the outer court of the temple and the lower city were taken, the Jews fled into the inner court of the temple, and into the upper city; but now fearing lest the Romans should hinder them from offering their daily sacrifices to God, they sent an embassage, and desired that they would only permit them to bring in beasts for sacrifices, which Herod granted, hoping they were going to yield; but when he saw that they did nothing of what he supposed, but bitterly opposed him, in order to preserve the kingdom to Antigonus, he made an assault upon the city, and took it by storm; and now all parts were full of those that were slain, by the rage of the Romans at the long duration of the siege, and by the zeal of the Jews that were on Herod's side, who were not willing to leave one of their adversaries alive; so they were murdered continually in the narrow streets and in the houses by crowds, and as they were flying to the temple for shelter, and there was no pity taken of either infants or the aged, nor did they spare so much as the weaker sex; nay, although the king sent about, and besought them to spare the people, yet nobody restrained their hand from slaughter, but, as if they were a company of madmen, they fell upon persons of all ages, without distinction; and then Antigonus, without regard to either his past or present circumstances, came down from the citadel, and fell down at the feet of Sosius, who took no pity of him, in the change of his fortune, but insulted him beyond measure, and called him Antigone [i.e. a woman, and not a man;] yet did he not treat him as if he were a woman, by letting him go at liberty, but put him into bonds, and kept him in close custody.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

As a musician and composer he associated with Mendelssohn.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

In the reformation of religion, his first steps were moderate and cautious: he assembled a great council of senators and bishops, and enacted, with their consent, that all the images should be removed from the sanctuary and altar to a proper height in the churches where they might be visible to the eyes, and inaccessible to the superstition, of the people.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

They choose the prettiest of their number, envelop her in a mass of foliage taken from the birch-trees and maples, and carry her about through the village.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

"As a whaler I have followed many a cetacean, harpooned a great number, and killed several; but, however strong or well-armed they may have been, neither their tails nor their weapons would have been able even to scratch the iron plates of a steamer.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

Yet, excommunicated though he was, and suspected of being at heart as much Mohammedan as Christian, he, as well as his great rival, is found by Dante in Purgatory.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

He must write as the interpreter of nature, and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being superior to time and place.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 03, April 1883 by Chautauqua Institution

"Isn't he tall and thin, with a light moustache and curly hair, and doesn't he wear a glass in one eye?" "With a string to it; yes!
— from Mary Louise in the Country by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

God, in the nature of man, alone could have afforded a manifestation of the Covenant adequate to its character.
— from The Ordinance of Covenanting by John Cunningham

THE GREAT EXCURSION ROUTE BETWEEN THE NORTH AND SOUTH —AND TO AND FROM— KANSAS LANDS, AND COLORADO, NEW MEXICO AND CALIFORNIA HEALTH AND PLEASURE RESORTS AND THE MINING DISTRICTS OF THE GREAT WEST.
— from A Parody on Iolanthe by D. (Davison) Dalziel

The maiden answered, "Come here again to-morrow evening about sunset, and if I meet you in my snake-form, and wind myself round your body like a girdle, and kiss you three times, do not start or shrink back, or I shall again be overwhelmed by [Pg 318] the waters of enchantment, and who knows for how many centuries?"
— from The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country by W. F. (William Forsell) Kirby

There he beheld masons and carpenters hard at work hacking and hewing, and building a fine new house.
— from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle

She could take her from me, and carry her away.
— from French and Oriental Love in a Harem by Mario Uchard

Ther's monny a chap has a race wi' his hat, an' it luks a sheepish sooart ov a trick, an' iverybody can affooard to laff at him just becoss it isn't them.
— from Yorkshire Ditties, First Series To Which Is Added The Cream Of Wit And Humour From His Popular Writings by John Hartley

“I am even willing,” he concluded; “to embrace my anonymous challenger himself; and if my readers knew, as his Eminence and I know, what that implies and why he remains anonymous, they would believe in the sincerity of my conversion.”
— from The Gadfly by E. L. (Ethel Lillian) Voynich

He saw the little patio, and his mother cooking and moiling at crude housekeeping and finding time to caress and love him.
— from The Night-Born by Jack London