At one time the new birth was combined with circumcision, and so the ceremony admitted to the privileges and religious rites of the tribe.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 11 of 12) by James George Frazer

To such as place any real reliance on this theory, these mounds are full of interest.
— from The Prehistoric World; Or, Vanished Races by Emory Adams Allen

At once I put my paper in my pocket and ran right over to the northwest corner of Randolph and Desplaines.
— from Anarchy and Anarchists A History of the Red Terror and the Social Revolution in America and Europe; Communism, Socialism, and Nihilism in Doctrine and in Deed; The Chicago Haymarket Conspiracy and the Detection and Trial of the Conspirators by Michael J. Schaack

The great caution, advisable at all times, of limiting appropriations to the wants of the public service is rendered necessary at present by the prospective and rapid reduction of the tariff, while the vigilant jealousy evidently excited among the people by the occurrences of the last few years assures us that they expect from their representatives, and will sustain them in the exercise of, the most rigid economy.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

to him,—he'd forgotten he owned them!—laundered them, and hung the trio, tied in tissue paper and red ribbon, on the tree.
— from An American Idyll The Life of Carleton H. Parker by Cornelia Stratton Parker

Pushing a rickety raft out through the muck and water-reeds of the stagnant water, my friend showed me, on a clump of pickerel weed on a sunken stick, a nest of twigs on which was sitting a strange bird.
— from Everyday Adventures by Samuel Scoville