For the fact that a man considers himself an animal of a certain species does not explain why he attributes marvellous powers to this species, and especially why he renders a cult to the images symbolizing it.—To this question Lang gives the same response as Frazer: he denies that totemism is a religion.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

The next evening we had a meeting in Radcliffe, at which an unpleasant spirit was displayed by some.
— from Life of a Pioneer: Being the Autobiography of James S. Brown by James S. (James Stephens) Brown

And the cunning Madame always came lightly attired, showing samples of her beauty, which would have made a patriarch neigh, even were he as much battered by time as must have been Mr. Methusaleh, with his nine hundred and sixty years.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Nobody else would have any motive for destroying them; in fact, no one else would dare mutilate a book he prized so highly."
— from The Gloved Hand by Burton Egbert Stevenson

She had not even wished her a Merry Christmas.
— from Marjorie Dean at Hamilton Arms by Josephine Chase

Here are found the mammoth bones of animals of the marsupial species, now extinct, which have afforded much interest to scientists.
— from Under the Southern Cross Or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands by Maturin Murray Ballou