Yet about his pilgrimage thither, declares Mr. Robertson, there is no more uncertainty than about the embassies [ 47 ] sent by Porus to Augustus, and by the king of “Taprobane” to Claudius.
— from The Historical Christ; Or, An investigation of the views of Mr. J. M. Robertson, Dr. A. Drews, and Prof. W. B. Smith by F. C. (Frederick Cornwallis) Conybeare

And as they were superstitious in observing unlucky signs , so likewise in the means used to avert the evil portended: the means were either words or deeds .
— from Moses and Aaron: Civil and Ecclesiastical Rites, Used by the Ancient Hebrews by Thomas Goodwin

I suppose they look with wonder at the young American girls who march up to anything that ever was created, with undismayed front.
— from Saunterings by Charles Dudley Warner

In a recent case at Allahâbâd a man stated that the cholera monster used to attempt to enter his house nightly, that his head resembled a large earthen pot, and that he and his brother were obliged to bar his entrance with their clubs.
— from The Popular Religion and Folk-Lore of Northern India, Vol. 1 (of 2) by William Crooke

He feared nothing, however, more unpleasant than a temporary embarrassment.
— from What's Mine's Mine — Complete by George MacDonald

There are his fantastic banquets, his fantastic amours: the repas de deuil, Miss Urania the acrobat, the episode of the ventriloquist-woman and the reincarnation of the Sphinx and the Chimæra of Flaubert, the episode of the boy chez Madame Laure.
— from The Symbolist Movement in Literature by Arthur Symons

He evidently perceives the intention to entrap him, and is, moreover, unwilling to allow the expression, which he has been using in a general way, to bear this bald, personal application, with its intended insinuation of irreverence.
— from The Rogerenes: some hitherto unpublished annals belonging to the colonial history of Connecticut by John R. (John Rogers) Bolles

All mingle unreservedly together and treat each other with the most affectionate cordiality, the men often kissing one another when they meet and part, as if they were brothers.
— from Tent Life in Siberia A New Account of an Old Undertaking; Adventures among the Koraks and Other Tribes In Kamchatka and Northern Asia by George Kennan