We may say that, from the economic point of view, we were correct in classing all these gifts together, because they all represent a definite type of equivalence; also they correspond to the native idea that every service has to be paid for, an idea documented by the linguistic use of the word mapula .
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

The characteristic note in the earlier stages had been the domination of the governor-general's mind by a clear-cut theory—that of Lord John Russell.
— from British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government, 1839-1854 by J. L. (John Lyle) Morison

Murray's copy writers are unsparingly abused by Southey and Lockhart in the Quarterly; and it would be hard indeed if we might not in the Edinburgh strike hard at an assailant of Mackintosh.
— from Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay. Volume 1 by George Otto Trevelyan

No, in the excitement she had not, though both Ramsey and "California" had, there being to them an unfailing poetry in the casting of the lead, whether by day or, as now, by the glare of a torch basket let down close to the water under the starboard freight guards.
— from Gideon's Band: A Tale of the Mississippi by George Washington Cable

Several of the soldiers ran towards the stockade, in order to seize the bridle when he should come up; but Hercules, spying his old comrade—the horse of the “Doctor”—within the inclosure, first neighed loudly, and then, throwing all his nerve into the effort, sprang high over the picket fence.
— from The Rifle Rangers by Mayne Reid

Items noted in the Errata section have been repaired.
— from A Morning's Walk from London to Kew by Phillips, R. (Richard), Sir

One of Humphry's peculiarities is to be noticed in the elongated shape he gave to the eyes of his sitters, what has been well termed "a greyhound eye," affording a marked contrast to the exceedingly round, over-bold eye, which Plimer was so fond of accentuating.
— from Portrait Miniatures by George Charles Williamson

The belief of the Calabar negroes in the external soul has been described as follows by a missionary: “ Ukpong is the native word we have taken to translate our word soul .
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 11 of 12) by James George Frazer