[ 245 ] I may add that every day, when the reapers start their reaping, they have to repeat the following charm:— “A swallow has fallen, striking the ground, Striking the ground in the middle of our house-yard; But ye, O Shadows and Spectral Reapers, See that ye mingle not with us.”
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Culture, aiming at the perfection of the man as the end, degrades everything else, as health and bodily life, into means.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

The instance may serve to point out the value to the teacher of a knowledge of the psychological methods and the empirical devices found useful in the past.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

And so saying, Morley and the elder Diggs entered the house.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

“If so,” said the man in white, “get upon this horse, behind me;” and that Einion did, and looking around he could not see any appearance of the Lady of the Wood, the goblin, excepting the track of hoofs of marvellous and monstrous size, as if journeying towards the north.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

They make bunches of flowers, from flakes and wires of silver, that counterfeit the delicate creations the frost weaves upon a windowpane; and we were shown a miniature silver temple whose fluted columns, whose Corinthian capitals and rich entablatures, whose spire, statues, bells, and ornate lavishness of sculpture were wrought in polished silver, and with such matchless art that every detail was a fascinating study and the finished edifice a wonder of beauty.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Independent of these boats, it must be mentioned that the Cornwall on Lake St. Louis makes a trip every day from Côteau du Lac to Cornwall; the Dalhousie runs between Prescott and Kingston twice a week and conveys the mail; the Charlotte and Toronto once a week from Prescott to the Head of the Bay of Quinté; thus affording to every part of the country the same advantages of convenient intercourse.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

The Nabob of the Carnatic threatened to attack Madras, and the English desisted.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Even those who most admire the elaborate diction of the Galatea are compelled to admit its monotony.
— from Chapters on Spanish Literature by James Fitzmaurice-Kelly

We met all the rest of the Mission at the Embassy door, and then there was a general détente, the men all calling for their servants to get them out of their uniforms, and to bring beer and cigars.
— from Letters of a Diplomat's Wife, 1883-1900 by Mary King Waddington

Sometimes they go to pursue the whale themselves, but when they do, it is in large numbers, and they attack him nearly in the same manner as the Europeans do, only, as they are Page 275 not so well supplied with cord, they fix the skins of seals, which they have inflated with air, to the end of the thongs which are tied to their harpoons, and this serves both to weary out the fish, who drags them with him under the water, and to discover him the instant he approaches to the surface.
— from The History of Sandford and Merton by Thomas Day

The blind and vulgar prejudice in favour of Shakspeare, Massinger, and the elder dramatic poets—the sickening adulation bestowed upon Sheridan Knowles and Talfourd, among the moderns—and the base, malignant, and selfish partiality of theatrical managers, who insist upon performing those plays only which are adapted to the stage—whose grovelling souls have no sympathy with genius—whose ideas are fixed upon gain, have hitherto smothered those blazing illuminati, George Stephens and his syn—Syncretcis; have hindered their literary effulgence from breaking through the mists hung before the eyes of the public, by a weak, infatuated adherence to paltry Nature, and a silly infatuation in favour of those who copy her.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 5, 1841 by Various

"To all this I pay so much attention that each day, in councils and out of them, I do nothing else.
— from The Story of Don John of Austria by Luis Coloma

The twenty-eighth canon of this council has been rejected and condemned by the Latins, yet Pelagius, Gregory, Pascal and Boniface acknowledged this council, thereby placing the seal of infallibility upon it as much as they ever did upon other councils.
— from The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 10. October, 1880 by Various

[102] in the night and had vanished no less mysteriously after this extraordinary deed of daring.
— from Dixmude: The epic of the French marines (October 17-November 10, 1914) by Charles Le Goffic

I am not insensible of the benefits of elegant luxury; yet I reflect with some pain, that if the importers of silk had introduced the art of printing, already practised by the Chinese, the comedies of Menander and the entire decads of Livy would have been perpetuated in the editions of the sixth century.
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 by Edward Gibbon

— “Babylon hath been a golden cup in the Lord's hand, that made all the earth drunken; the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad [intoxicated with her errors].
— from Studies in the Scriptures, Volume 7: The Finished Mystery by C. T. (Charles Taze) Russell

Saltren was, moreover, deeply impressed with the reality of his vision, which had grown in his mind and taken extraordinary dimensions, and had assumed distinct outline as his fancy brooded over it.
— from Arminell: A Social Romance, Vol. 2 by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould