A string of other accusations about some clay pots given by Tovasana to the same chief, and some pigs promised and never given, were also made by the angry headman.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

[15] without a cloak, with half a hat, without a band, a doublet with three buttons, without a girdle, a hose with one point, and no garter, with a cudgel under thine arm, borrowing and begging threepence.
— from The Works of John Marston. Volume 3 by John Marston

I built up again the five-story houses of the priests and nobles, glistening white, and fantastically painted in many colours: I laid out lawns and flower beds, and set fountains playing.
— from It Happened in Egypt by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

As soon as the Jewish people, who, up to that time, had been altogether insignificant in a political point of view, rose against [Pg 473] the Syrian empire, at first for their religious peculiarities, then, for their political independence, and, finally, even for the recovery of the ideal possession of their country—an idea which had been kept alive by tradition,—it could not but be that those who were naturally the supports and centres of the Syrian operations, became the objects of the hostile Jewish operations; and that the whole national portion of the population, although not Greeks, were anew inflamed by their old hatred of, and opposition to, Judaism; so that they considered that Hellenic struggle as also a national one.
— from Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg

Are the South American Peoples a New Group, with a New "Racial Type"?
— from South America: Observations and Impressions New edition corrected and revised by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

He had gone into the store to see his sister when the young farmer came in, looked awkwardly about and pushed a new gold watch across the counter to Kate.
— from Windy McPherson's Son by Sherwood Anderson

N. septicus was recorded by the same author from the water moccasin ( Agkistrodon piscivorus ) and N. georgianum was also recorded from the king snake ( Lampropeltis getulus ).
— from Natural History of the Racer Coluber constrictor by Henry S. (Henry Sheldon) Fitch

Wedding presents are not given without an arrière pensée , and at Christmas our object is mostly to please the parents.
— from The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

In their places a new generation will arise who will know their duty better.
— from Red Eagle and the Wars With the Creek Indians of Alabama. by George Cary Eggleston