This part of the u’ula has not been translated in the text, as its meaning is ‘magical’ and can be better grasped in connection with the native text.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

What I do owe is simply to foreign obligations and benefits; as to anything else, no man is more absolutely clear: “Nec sunt mihi nota potentum Munera.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Against reflexion, against discrimination, in his interest, all earth and air conspire; wherefore it is that, as I say, he must in many a case have schooled himself, from the first, to work but for a “living wage.”
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

I had not revealed myself in my altered character to Dora ye
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

“My father and Maria are coming to me in March,” added Charlotte, “and I hope you will consent to be of the party.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

" The reader will call to mind that this Simon Magus is mentioned and condemned in the Acts of the Apostles, for offering to pay Peter for a bestowment of the gift of the Holy Ghost.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

Mamúkung ta nímug sigarilyu, May I mooch a cigarette off of you?
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

But Mrs. Sim White would not hear to having the meeting put off; she said that a cyclone might come up any minute in Minnesota and cool the air, and then think of all those poor children with nothing to cover them.
— from The Jamesons by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

Hence the necessity for maintaining his credit rating, as well as competition, virtually forces the business man into making anticipatory cash payments and thus, more or less as a consequence, into the general practice of discounting his personal paper.
— from Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips

All the European fighting men in Manila and Cavite embarked—over 1,000 Spaniards—the flower of the Colony, together with a large force of natives, who were taught to believe that the Dutch were infidels.
— from The Philippine Islands A Political, Geographical, Ethnographical, Social and Commercial History of the Philippine Archipelago, Embracing the Whole Period of Spanish Rule by Foreman, John, F.R.G.S.

At that very hour an aged woman, muffled in many a covering, was led secretly to the apartment of the Lady Hildegardis.
— from Aslauga's Knight by La Motte-Fouqué, Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de

"For that," said Bowie, "you have to thank this boy here, a boy in years only, a man in action, and two men in mind and courage.
— from The Texan Star: The Story of a Great Fight for Liberty by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

Westray made a motion of assent, and the clergyman went on: “Let me introduce myself as Canon Parkyn.
— from The Nebuly Coat by John Meade Falkner

Marthe once brought me some material to repair a petticoat, but there was more than necessary, and with the extra material I made a cover for the drawing-room table; and Sister Léonide occasionally gave us some sheets of white or brown paper to lay on the "dining-room" table.
— from My Memoirs by Marguerite Steinheil

There is no ferocity in Othello; his mind is majestic and composed.
— from Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In many a mansion, in many a comfortable home, in many a peasant's cottage, the empty chair is eloquent of the absent father, brother, husband or son who shall be absent forever.
— from America's War for Humanity by Thomas Herbert Russell

So many influences modify atmospheric conditions that unfailing predictions are impossible, but the Weather Bureau predictions prove true in about eight cases out of ten.
— from General Science by Bertha May Clark