His literary taste was the cause of his being a chained prisoner, as, rambling one day into a hut near, he drank a bottle of ink, ate a box of wafers, and was found by the owner studying the watch-making practised by “Dent, London.”
— from Sporting Scenes amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa by Alfred W. (Alfred Wilks) Drayson

"Terminations, Coxon Fund," perhaps best of this lot, a disquisition, but entertaining, perhaps the germ of Galsworthy to be found in it (to no glory of either author) as perhaps a residuum of Dickens in Maisie's Mrs. Wix.
— from Instigations Together with An Essay on the Chinese Written Character by Ezra Pound

In the light of the whole investigation into these fundamental verities, it determines the principles and rules of duty in the various relations of life.
— from Theoretical Ethics by M. (Milton) Valentine

Rev. Peter Alley (Rector of Donamow, Ireland, 73 years), [died] in the 111th year of his age.
— from Things to be Remembered in Daily Life With Personal Experiences and Recollections by John Timbs

Each man of the group lent his voice to the clamor and there was at once precipitated a riot of discord in which the original air was lost in a brazen yell.
— from Ann Arbor Tales by Karl Edwin Harriman

; exchange of dress between men and women at, 260 sqq. ——, sacred, of priest and priestess as representatives of deities, i. 46 sqq.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 06 of 12) by James George Frazer

It was supposed that the presiding judges of the circuit courts, proceeding from the same body, would tend to identify the principles and rules of decision in the several districts.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 2 (of 16) by United States. Congress

Here they intended to establish the head-quarters of their insurrection, without having the slightest notion that at that very instant M.M. Thiers, Miguet, and other members of the Government were dining together at the Rocher de Cancale, fifty yards only from the camp wherein the Republicans were fortifying themselves with the firm resolution of proclaiming a Republic or dying in the attempt.
— from Old and New Paris: Its History, Its People, and Its Places, v. 1 by H. Sutherland (Henry Sutherland) Edwards

She took a little pin from a jewel-case under the sofa pillows, and reaching over, dropped it in her brother's hand.
— from Two Little Knights of Kentucky by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

In origin the Nāyars were probably a race of Dravidian immigrants, who were amongst the first invaders of Malabar, and as conquerors assumed the position of the governing and [ 285 ] land-owning class.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 5 of 7 by Edgar Thurston