The descent from this pass to Tásh Kurgán finishes with a difficult and narrow defile, which may well be overflowed at the great melting of snow, from the end of May till the middle of June, even to July.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

And now arose a sedition between the high priests and the principal men of the multitude of Jerusalem; each of which got them a company of the boldest sort of men, and of those that loved innovations about them, and became leaders to them; and when they struggled together, they did it by casting reproachful words against one another, and by throwing stones also.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

AN INDIANA CASE Almost equal to the ferocity of the mob which killed the three brothers, Julian and the unoffending, John Willis, because of the murder of Judge Estopinal, was the action of a mob near Vincennes, Ind.
— from The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

n. penally for miscarriage of justice , EC.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

As Dymov and she had very little money, only just enough, she and her dressmaker were often put to clever shifts to enable her to appear constantly in new dresses and make a sensation with them.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The types of paranoia are described according to their content as: megalomania, the mania of persecution, eroto mania, mania of jealousy, etc.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

No mark of joy escapes them; sorrowfully they cut a basketful of the new corn, and carrying it home place it in the loft to dry.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

In Memphis, Tenn., in the month of June, Ellerton L. Dorr, who is the husband of Russell Hancock's widow, was arrested for attempted rape on Mattie Cole, a neighbors cook; he was only prevented from accomplishing his purpose, by the appearance of Mattie's employer.
— from Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Turning to Arkady, he said in a self-conscious way: "Here is Madame Odintsov just entering."
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Coming to lay out a great deal of money in clothes for my wife Command of an army is not beholden to any body to make him King Commons, where there is nothing done but by passion, and faction Compliment from my aunt, which I take kindly as it is unusual Conceited, but that’s no matter to me Confidence, and vanity, and disparages everything Confusion of years in the case of the months of January (etc.)
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

All the places in Scott's novels—my first romances, read aloud to us little girls by our mother as we sat at our sewing tasks about her knee; all the castles in the English histories; the lakes and fells of the north, the soft hills and dales of Derbyshire, the moorlands of Jane Eyre and Katherine Earnshaw, the Devon of Lorna Doone and Amyas Leigh....
— from The Retrospect by Ada Cambridge

"...I acted upon my own judgment, Excellency.
— from The Secret Witness by George Gibbs

None if he would reach Montrevel or Julien ere the worst had fallen; if he would be in time to tell them that, amid those whom they sought to murder and burn in the caves they had surrounded, was the fairest woman in all Languedoc, the child of Baville's heart, Urbaine Ducaire.
— from The Scourge of God: A Romance of Religious Persecution by John Bloundelle-Burton

Irenæus, too, flatly contradicts the Gospels by declaring that the ministry of Jesus extended over ten years and that Jesus lived to be fifty years of age (“Against Heresies,” Book II, cap.
— from Theological Essays by Charles Bradlaugh

The Union of South Africa comes nearest with 143 white inhabitants per mile or just eleven times as many.
— from An African Adventure by Isaac Frederick Marcosson

Another case of "uttering forged Bank-of-England notes, knowing them to be forged," which came under our cognizance a few months afterward, revived the fading memory of Jane Eccles's early doom, and cleared up every obscurity connected with it.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XI.—April, 1851—Vol. II. by Various

ve listened so eagerly for praise—ye penny editors who have successfully tickled the popular ear—ye ruling deities of mammoth weeklies, what are all your feelings, concentrated into one great throb, in comparison to the mighty throes of talent waking from her sleep in the mind of John Earl.
— from The Swamp Doctor's Adventures in The South-West Containing the Whole of The Louisiana Swamp Doctor; Streaks of Squatter Life; and Far-Western Scenes; In a Series of Forty-Two Humorous Southern and Western Sketches, Descriptive of Incidents and Character by John S. Robb

The situation on and around the island of Luzon was much the same as it had been nearly all the month of June, except that the gunboat Leite , which ran up a river on May 1st, the day of the battle, came out and surrendered, having on board fifty-two army and navy officers and ninety-four men.
— from The Boys of '98 by James Otis