First I taught them that they could not unseat me, and even rapped them sharply between the ears to impress upon them my authority and mastery.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

I inquired of two females whom I met whether they had seen my guide; but they either did not or would not understand me, and exchanging a few words with each other, in one of the hundred dialects of the Gallegan, passed on.
— from The Bible in Spain Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman, in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula by George Borrow

The Dravidian aborigines of the hills of 326 Central India, who never use milk, are expressly said to regard it as an excrement.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

The FRUIT should be preferably gathered in fine weather, and not until mature, as evinced by its flavour; for if it be employed whilst unripe, the resulting wine will be harsh, disagreeable, and unwholesome, and a larger quantity of sugar and spirit will be required to render it palatable.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

When Bruno and Buffalmaco had taken their leave, the Physitian, so soone as night drew neere, used many apt excuses to his wife, stealing forth his Scarlet Gowne and Hood unseene of any, wherewith being clothed: at the time appointed, he got upon one of the Marble Tombes, staying there (quaking with cold) awaiting when the Beast should come.
— from The Decameron (Day 6 to Day 10) Containing an hundred pleasant Novels by Giovanni Boccaccio

We were to dine at seven that day, and, as I did not usually make an elaborate toilette, I knew I had plenty of time.
— from The Weapons of Mystery by Joseph Hocking

Under nature, unfavorable modifications are ever arising, and those animals and plants which possess them in a marked degree are carried off by natural extinction.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870 by Various

The manner in which this should be done is no unimportant matter, and especially important is it that it should be done by a Norseman and be Norse in spirit.
— from Ole Bull: A Memoir by Sara Chapman Thorp Bull

There are many such in Australia, who “have sat at good men’s feasts,” but are now, unfortunately, more at ease in the men’s hut.’
— from Babes in the Bush by Rolf Boldrewood