Another method is described as follows:— “Make the wax figure in the usual way and with the usual ingredients.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

"I shall never forget," she says, "Napoleon's expression of countenance at this moment; it displayed a rapid succession of emotions, none of them evil.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

Something must be said more in detail about the spells of the subsequent magical performances.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

From whose most cruel and most impious dominion a man is liberated when he believes on Him who has afforded an example of humility, following which men may rise as great as was that pride by which they fell.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

—The only thing which consoles us for our miseries is diversion, and yet this it the greatest of our miseries.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

Thou didst to me in dreams appear, Unseen thou wast already dear.
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

For forty years together it will remember its injury down to the smallest, most ignominious details, and every time will add, of itself, details still more ignominious, spitefully teasing and tormenting itself with its own imagination.
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

When one marries, monsieur, it is not in order to parade one's generosity; it is in order to live every day, every hour, every minute, every second beside a man; and if this man is disfigured, as I am, it is a death sentence to marry him!
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

But, for the moment, I do acknowledge it, out of pity for yourselves to a large extent.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

Annual of Scientific Discovery; or Year-Book of Facts in Science and Art for 1859, exhibiting the most Important Discoveries and Improvements in Mechanics, etc., etc., etc.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

The insect, at this moment, is digging a tilled and absolutely bare spot.
— from Insect Adventures by Louise Hasbrouck Zimm

Them I marshalled in dread array, a host invincible!
— from The Adventures of Hugh Trevor by Thomas Holcroft

Persons of scarcely any education or talents, while under biological influence, have been made to imitate the voice of Webster, Everett, Fillmore, and others, delivering off-hand speeches of most impassioned diction and eloquence; while, in their normal state, they could scarcely frame a paragraph in the king's English, much more deliver a formal address, embellished with a profusion of metaphors, tropes, and figures, accompanied with the finished attitudes and movements of a Choate, a Sumner, or a Banks!
— from The Spirit Land by Samuel B. (Samuel Bulfinch) Emmons

So soon as it finds itself obliged to walk alone, it undergoes a sort of vertigo, which makes it dread an abyss at every step.
— from The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville by Alexis de Tocqueville

His eyes were cold and hard, the lines on his face grim and set and his closely cropped whitish moustache revealed a mouth indicating determination and strength of character.
— from Don Hale with the Flying Squadron by W. Crispin (William Crispin) Sheppard

I say again, Mrs. Stapleton is not the person I should let my innocent daughter associate with.”
— from A Study In Shadows by William John Locke

The pit and stage are thrown into a brilliant hall, with the orchestra in the centre; the music is divine, and the etiquette perfect liberty.
— from Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Nathaniel Parker Willis

It consisted [292] merely in the pronunciation of a name, too sacred to be set down in an idle tale; but he pronounced it with an emphasis that made it doubly affecting.
— from The Three Perils of Man; or, War, Women, and Witchcraft, Vol. 1 (of 3) by James Hogg