In particular Saning Sari is represented by certain stalks or grains called indoea padi, that is, literally, “Mother of Rice,” a name that is often given to the guardian spirit herself.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Their names were the Baroness Zouieff, and Mesdemoiselles Olga Romanenkoff and Nadjezda Tavascherne, the two latter being of the noblest families of Moscow, and all moving in the Court entourage.
— from Rasputin the Rascal Monk Disclosing the Secret Scandal of the Betrayal of Russia by the Mock-Monk Grichka and the Consequent Ruin of the Romanoffs. With official documents revealed and recorded for the first time. by William Le Queux

There was such [169] a maze of ropes and netting that it was hard to distinguish anything.
— from The Heroes of the School; or, The Darewell Chums Through Thick and Thin by Allen Chapman

Towards evening, when the tired cattle draw their creaking carts homewards, the streets are thronged with the labourers returning from their work, ready for the simple meal of rice and "ngapi" their wives have prepared for them.
— from Peeps at Many Lands: Burma by R. Talbot (Robert Talbot) Kelly

These are his words: "In the History of the Variations , an attack equally vigorous and well-directed," says he, "Bossuet shows, by a happy mixture of reasoning and narration, the errors, mistakes, uncertainties, and contradictions of our first reformers, whose variations, as he learnedly maintains, bear the marks of error; while the uninterrupted unity of the Catholic Church is a sign and testimony of infallible truth .
— from Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their effects on the civilization of Europe by Jaime Luciano Balmes

It is yours of right, as my name has been mine of right; and not to assert it, not to live up to it, not to be proud of it, would argue incredible baseness.
— from Lady Anna by Anthony Trollope

One drum is made of hubs to which cleats are fixed, and the other is made of rundles; and near the latter is a wheel two feet deep, measured on all sides around the axle, and one foot wide; and against this impinges a brake, [10] which holds the whim when occasion demands that it be stopped.
— from De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georg Agricola

Such moments of recoil are natural to such men—half saints, half organizers.
— from The Case of Richard Meynell by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Nearer and nearer he came, step by step, until at last he stood just on the other side of the mass of roots, and not ten feet from the boy.
— from The Daughter of the Chieftain : the Story of an Indian Girl by Edward Sylvester Ellis

For months we had been lying idle, encamped in the very midst of riches; and now these new comers, aliens and foreigners to the bank, had taken them, as it were, out of our hands.
— from Golden Dreams and Leaden Realities by George Payson

Of course it will be understood that reference is here made to doctrinal guidance, and not to moral guidance—to latitude or bigotry in matters of religion, and not to the social conduct of clergymen.
— from Clergymen of the Church of England by Anthony Trollope