These are the souls of the mythical personages whom popular imagination has placed at the beginning of time, the Altjirangamitjina or the men of the Alcheringa among the Arunta; the Mura-mura among the tribes of Lake Eyre; the Muk-Kurnai among the Kurnai, etc.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Nay, they might appeal to their own literature, even to their law-books, to teach us at least one lesson of truthfulness, truthfulness to ourselves, or, in other words, humility.
— from India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

On the 3rd of September 1560, two months after the Treaty of Leith, Elizabeth told De Quadra that she had made up her mind to marry the Archduke Charles.
— from Queen Elizabeth by Edward Spencer Beesly

sissippi Valley, south to Arkansas and Mississippi, and the tributaries of Lakes Erie and Michigan.
— from Bass, Pike, Perch, and Others by James A. (James Alexander) Henshall

An expression derived from the Royal Menagerie at the Tower of London ere the metropolis rejoiced in a Zoological Gardens, and when travelling menageries were unheard of.
— from Phrases and Names, Their Origins and Meanings by Trench H. Johnson

He looks at the very flowers beneath his feet, and the buds in the woodland, and all the crowd of living things about him, animal, vegetable and mineral: and they too obey law; each after their kind.
— from Westminster Sermons with a Preface by Charles Kingsley

Voules looked very melancholy at the thought of leaving Elverston.
— from The Rival Crusoes by William Henry Giles Kingston