His wife was Selu, “Corn” —In Cherokee belief, as in the mythologies of nearly every eastern tribe, the corn spirit is a woman, and the plant itself has sprung originally from the blood drops or the dead body of the Corn Woman.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

This distinction befell scarcely any other man of note except Euripides, who died long after him, and was buried at Arethusa in Macedonia.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

“No, but it isn’t a good thing for a young man to engage too soon in that pleasure which makes one neglect everything else.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

There are, we say, many things about which we have not as yet instructed you—and first, as to reading and music: Shall the pupil be a perfect scholar and musician, or not even enter on these studies?
— from Laws by Plato

That is, all the cells of my body are made over new every eleven months.
— from The Silence: What It Is and How To Use It by David V. (David Van) Bush

The wealth of Golconda!" "Oh, young man of Nazareth!" exclaimed Eidiol.
— from The Iron Arrow Head or The Buckler Maiden: A Tale of the Northman Invasion by Eugène Sue

As there is nothing at all in this dull place to take the attention of the people, no trade, manufactures, or news, every event at all novel is interesting to them.
— from Henry Martyn, Saint and Scholar First Modern Missionary to the Mohammedans, 1781-1812 by George Smith

The trade of Malacca with India is said by the Portuguese chroniclers to have been largely in the hands of merchants from Gujarát, and when the Portuguese conquered the city it was inhabited by men of nearly every Eastern race, Hindus from both sides of India, Arabs, Chinese and Javanese.
— from Rulers of India: Albuquerque by H. Morse (Henry Morse) Stephens

Christian Lobenstine or William C. Lobenstine, as he called himself later on in this country, was born in Eisfeld, Dukedom of Meiningen, on November eighth, eighteen hundred and thirty-one.
— from Extracts from the Diary of William C. Lobenstine, December 31, 1851-1858 by William C. (William Christian) Lobenstine

The father was a middle-sized man of no education except what an undirected reading of many books had given him.
— from The Little Moment of Happiness by Clarence Budington Kelland