These various elements of their folklore are, however, now so thoroughly mixed up together that it is often almost impossible to disentangle them.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

I assert most unhesitatingly that there are not now and never have been any unalterable laws as to what these marks should be, and the colloquialism which insists upon the "bar sinister" is a curiously amusing example of an utter misnomer.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

I wrote to him: I enclosed our judgments and our decrees in the letter, and the Representative Montaigu undertook to take them to him.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

Now if I feel anything stirring, do not fancy that I trouble myself to consult my pulse or my urine, thereby to put myself upon some annoying prevention; I shall soon enough feel the pain, without making it more and longer by the disease of fear.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

His Highness Prince William, in a showy military uniform (the “true prince,” this—scion of the house over-thrown by the present dynasty—he was formerly betrothed to the Princess but was not allowed to marry her), stood guard and paced back and forth within the door.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

it had so happened, that the serous part of the blood had got betwixt the two skins, in the nethermost part of my uncle Toby ——the first shootings of which (as my uncle Toby had no experience of love) he had taken for a part of the passion—till the blister breaking in the one case—and the other remaining—my uncle *
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

And we grant all this, accompanying the permission with strict orders to prevent any embryo which may come into being from seeing the light; and if any force a way to the birth, the parents must understand that the offspring of such an union cannot be maintained, and arrange accordingly.
— from The Republic by Plato

There was no true religion in the country at that date, neither among pa'sons, clerks, nor people, and to keep the men up to their work the vicar had to let 'em have plenty of drink during the afternoon.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

That dedicated to the second division, where I was to figure, was considerably the largest, and accommodated an assemblage more numerous, more turbulent, and infinitely more unmanageable than the other two.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

On the day of his marriage (from early in the morning until the time when the ceremony took place) he employed himself in writing to his mother; a wonderful, a solemn letter in the sight of the All-Knowing,—the cry of a tortured soul in utmost peril.
— from Absalom's Hair by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

The children went to their work in the garden, and Mr. Davis led me up to the house.
— from Forgotten Tales of Long Ago by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas

“He said it would,” said Mr. Sharp, indicating his host with his spoon, “and he ought—to know— Who's that kicking me under the table?”
— from Ship's Company, the Entire Collection by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

IT is an unfavorable step toward “educating a man up to the importance of being buried with his Lord and Master in baptism,” to set the law of God requiring it aside, and receive him without it.
— from A Book of Gems, or, Choice selections from the writings of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

The sediment at the bottom of the cup is decidedly thicker whenever I am reduced to swallow a spoonful; but still, I am more used to the taste of it, and as Dickens says of orange peel and water, if you make believe very much, it is not so very nasty.
— from Miss Eden's Letters by Emily Eden

[295] If we follow the course of the Chayenne for a couple of hundred miles up to the Black Hills, we come to the dwellings of the Chayenne Indians, who are hostile to most of the tribes of the Missouri.
— from Maximilian, Prince of Wied's, Travels in the Interior of North America, 1832-1834, part 1 by Wied, Maximilian, Prinz von

I amused myself until the train started for Utica, which was to be in a few hours, in walking about the engine-house, and examining the locomotives; and having satisfied myself, set out for a solitary walk in the country.
— from Diary in America, Series One by Frederick Marryat

You must understand that the great change brought about by the conquest was at first only a change of landlords, and involved no alteration in the laws and customs by which property was held.
— from Lowestoft in olden times by Francis Davy Longe

Nothing could be more unfortunate than the loss of Theodore’s letter by Mr. Flad’s servant.
— from The March to Magdala by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

My mind ain't made up to this proposition.
— from Money Magic: A Novel by Hamlin Garland