M. Odilon Barrot exclaimed, "What a fatality, that we should have been condemned to employ this man!"
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

The unfortunate one whom she had clasped is condemned to wander for ever in the trough of the waters, his eyes wide open, the mark of baptism effaced from his forehead.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

He also made an expedition against the Ammonites, and overcame them in battle, and ordered them to pay tribute, a hundred talents, and ten thousand cori of wheat, and as many of barley, every year, and so augmented his kingdom, that his enemies could not despise it, and his own people lived happily.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Taboos on Eating and Drinking IN THE OPINION of savages the acts of eating and drinking are attended with special danger; for at these times the soul may escape from the mouth, or be extracted by the magic arts of an enemy present.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Bo = King Alfred’s translation of Boethius, with the Metres of Boethius, ed.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

As their dislike of iron is supposed to be so great that they will not approach persons and things protected by the obnoxious metal, iron may obviously be employed as a charm for banning ghosts and other dangerous spirits.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Then he remembered the neighbourhood and turned over to look at the mass of buildings erected.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

So if I reflect upon two modes of bodily exercise that I may have taken: if one has been in a marked degree agreeable or tedious, I take note of it naturally; but it is not natural to me to go further than this in judging of their pleasurableness or painfulness, and the attempt to do so does not seem to lead to any clear affirmation.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

I have seen in my travels almost all the famous baths of Christendom, and for some years past have begun to make use of them myself: for I look upon bathing as generally wholesome, and believe that we suffer no little inconveniences in our health by having left off the custom that was generally observed, in former times, almost by all nations, and is yet in many, of bathing every day; and I cannot imagine but that we are much the worse by, having our limbs crusted and our pores stopped with dirt.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

The ministers of both Elfdale and Mohra were the chief inciters of this investigation, and both testified that they had suffered many tortures in the night from the witches.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Day in, day out, the men of Belsaye eyed it askance 'neath scowling brows and, by night, many a clenched hand was shaken and many a whispered malediction sped, toward that thing of doom that menaced them from the dark.
— from Beltane the Smith by Jeffery Farnol

Two hundred little cucumbers, fifty large cucumbers, three tablespoonfuls black mustard seed, three tablespoonfuls white mustard seed, three tablespoonfuls celery seed, one dozen red peppers, two pounds sugar, one quart French mustard, one bottle English chow-chow, one quart little onions, vinegar to cover.
— from Recipes Tried and True by Ohio). Ladies' Aid Society First Presbyterian Church (Marion

The whole country that is to be invaded has been surveyed and mapped out before entry; every position reconnoitred; the chain of communications complete.
— from Coningsby; Or, The New Generation by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

The shrubs are trimmed round, so as not to touch each other, the earth carefully cleared about them every day, and the edges of the turf cut into stiff lines, so that you see more of black earth than of green foliage, and the free beauty of nature is quite checked.
— from Tour in England, Ireland, and France, in the years 1826, 1827, 1828 and 1829. with remarks on the manners and customs of the inhabitants, and anecdotes of distiguished public characters. In a series of letters by a German Prince. by Pückler-Muskau, Hermann, Fürst von

It was a holograph will, and therefore needed no witness; Gowan was man of business enough to realize that.
— from Up in Ardmuirland by Michael Barrett

If he had the misfortune of bandaged eyes, she could at least rejoice in her own vision, which grew intenser with her having to speak for it.
— from The Two Magics: The Turn of the Screw, Covering End by Henry James

During the nineteenth century there were at least a dozen different methods, all of which had a number of reported successes, of treating stuttering by means of breathing exercises.
— from Psychotherapy Including the History of the Use of Mental Influence, Directly and Indirectly, in Healing and the Principles for the Application of Energies Derived from the Mind to the Treatment of Disease by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

Therefore, the density of vapours and gases has ceased to be an empirical magnitude obtained by experiment only, and has acquired a rational meaning.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume I by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev