It would be very rash to affirm that this was the way in which the myth of Demeter and Persephone actually took shape; but it seems a legitimate conjecture that the reduplication of deities, of which Demeter and Persephone furnish an example, may sometimes have arisen in the way indicated.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Although any man who had proved his unfitness for any other occupation in life, was free, without examination or qualification, to open a school anywhere; although preparation for the functions he undertook, was required in the surgeon who assisted to bring a boy into the world, or might one day assist, perhaps, to send him out of it; in the chemist, the attorney, the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker; the whole round of crafts and trades, the schoolmaster excepted; and although schoolmasters, as a race, were the blockheads and impostors who might naturally be expected to spring from such a state of things, and to flourish in it; these Yorkshire schoolmasters were the lowest and most rotten round in the whole ladder.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Under such circumstances they have to think more, they learn more than the others to train their wits, largely as means of defense against physical attack.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Except, perhaps, of the Arcadians and Athenians, who, I presume, dreading that this great act of retribution might one day arrive, pretend that they were sprung from the earth, like so many field-mice.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Supposing all the means of defence and protection, by means of which an ideal survives, are discovered, is it thereby refuted ?
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

It is ill-bred to send invitations either by the dispatch, or through the post-office; and besides being discourteous, you risk offending your friends, as these modes of delivery are proverbially uncertain.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

That bell that you carry is not, believe me, any order of merit, but on the contrary a mark of disgrace, a public notice to all men to avoid you as an ill mannered dog.”
— from Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend by Aesop

This battle was notable for the presence of the Saxon forces, who were incited to help Swipdag, not so much by love of him, as by desire to avenge Henry. GUTHORM and HADDING, the son of Gram (Groa being the mother of the first and Signe of the second), were sent over to Sweden in a ship by their foster-father, Brage (Swipdag being now master of Denmark), and put in charge of the giants Wagnhofde and Hafle, for guard as well as rearing.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

The Eleusinian Mysteries of Demeter and Persephone; the Lesser were celebrated in February, the greater in September.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

Food over, it was necessary once more to face the maze of De Aar platform.
— from On the Heels of De Wet by Lionel James

An herb to be boiled in simple milk, as the figs for Hezekiah's boils, has been proposed, O let this prove the appointed means, or direct and point out that which thou wilt bless, and let our hearts and tongues give the glory to thee.
— from The Power of Faith Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham. by Isabella Graham

“Among the ancient Egyptians the umbrella carried with it a mark of distinction, and persons of quality alone could use it.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 2 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

Once he turned round, as if to come back and speak to us; then whirled with a violent movement of decision and plunged on into the rain.
— from Under Sail by Lincoln Colcord

10 When he heard [ 92 ] that, the king dismissed the merchant from the temple of the Yaksha, as it were from the mouth of death, and punished the chief magistrate.
— from The Kathá Sarit Ságara; or, Ocean of the Streams of Story by active 11th century Somadeva Bhatta

Happily I think little and rarely about all that; but whenever this happens to me I pass through moments of discouragement and positive despair, which if the influence of 237 them became habitual would make me renounce all my labors, all my philosophical projects, to end my days like an ass .”
— from The Intellectual Life by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

This mixture of defiance and prostration, my squalid figure, my inquisitorial habit, and my bursting on this secret and solemn interview, struck the Jew with a horror he vainly gasped to express, till, rising from my knees, on which I had fallen from my weakness, I added, “Yes, I will betray you to the Inquisition, unless you instantly promise to shelter me from it.”
— from Melmoth the Wanderer, Vol. 3 (of 4) by Charles Robert Maturin