It is brought on by prolonged exposure to the sun or sleeping with wet hair.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Sometimes the group established for procreation endures throughout the seasons, and from year to year; sometimes the males herd together, as if normally they preferred their own society, until the time of rut comes, when war arises between them for the possession of what they have just discovered to be the fair.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

With so much of itself abandoned to darkness and vacancy; with so little change under the summer shining or the wintry lowering; so sombre and motionless always—no flag flying now by day, no rows of lights sparkling by night; with no family to come and go, no visitors to be the souls of pale cold shapes of rooms, no stir of life about it—passion and pride, even to the stranger's eye, have died away from the place in Lincolnshire and yielded it to dull repose.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Anne was obliged to turn away, to rise, to walk to a distant table, and, leaning there in pretended employment, try to subdue the feelings this picture excited.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

Thus the meanest British subject is proportionately equal to the Sovereign, that is to say, is as fully secured in his rights as the Sovereign in hers.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

The public expected that the successor of Carus would pursue his father's footsteps, and, without allowing the Persians to recover from their consternation, would advance sword in hand to the palaces of Susa and Ecbatana.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Whilst Eteoneus portions out the shares Atrides' son the purple draught prepares, And now (each sated with the genial feast, And the short rage of thirst and hunger ceased) Ulysses' son, with his illustrious friend, The horses join, the polish'd car ascend, Along the court the fiery steeds rebound, And the wide portal echoes to the sound.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

The reason given for it was of general application, and the principle expanded to the scope of the reason.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Mathematics fulfils this requirement by the construction of the figure, which is a phenomenon evident to the senses.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Even the main proposition expounded throughout this section—that universal laws of nature can be distinctly cognised a priori —leads naturally to the proposition: that the highest legislation of nature must lie in ourselves, i.e., in our understanding, and that we must not seek the universal laws of nature in nature by means of experience, but conversely must seek nature, as to its universal conformity to law, in the conditions of the possibility of experience, which lie in our sensibility and in our understanding.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

It was not his purpose either to take some single abstract notion, and by detailed elucidation to make it clear and obvious, nor to set up some rigorously limited system of notions, with its definitions and arbitrary terminology, whose great merit should be made to consist in such regularity of plan and faithful execution, as should every where command the notice and the wonder of the reader.
— from The philosophy of life, and philosophy of language, in a course of lectures by Friedrich von Schlegel

Now the prophet Elijah, through the Spirit, saw all this.
— from Elijah the Tishbite. Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, vol. V by Charles Henry Mackintosh

Please examine these two slates, wash them clean with this damp cloth, and dry them.”
— from Hours with the Ghosts or, Nineteenth Century Witchcraft Illustrated Investigations into the Phenomena of Spiritualism and Theosophy by Henry Ridgely Evans

There is due from the judge to the advocate some commendation and gracing, where causes are well handled and fair pleaded, especially towards the side which obtaineth not; 567 for that upholds in the client the reputation of his counsel, and beats down in him the conceit 568 of his cause.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

When she had passed out beyond the pylons enclosing the temple she turned round, shaking her head in a puzzled way as she gazed at it; for she knew that not a stone had been changed within the last hour, and yet it looked as strange in her eyes as some landscape with which we have become familiar in all the beauty of spring, and see once more in winter with its trees bare of leaves; or like the face of a woman which we thought beautiful under the veil which hid it, and which, when the veil is raised, we see to be wrinkled and devoid of charm.
— from The Sisters — Volume 1 by Georg Ebers

3 Their different properties enable them to serve different purposes in the body.
— from Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Francis M. (Francis Marion) Walters

On the larger estates artificial drying is slowly superseding the natural method, Page 42 for though the sun at its best is all that is needed, a showery day will seriously interfere with the process, even though the sliding roof is promptly pulled across to keep the rain from the trays.
— from The Food of the Gods A Popular Account of Cocoa by Brandon Head

At noon I was on the summit of a lofty mountain, at the base of which, still and quiet as if it had never resounded with the shock of war, the great battle-ground of the Greeks and Persians extended to the sea.
— from Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. 1 (of 2) by John L. Stephens

The objections, in my opinion, ought to be proposed, either to the several principles as they are distinctly considered, or to the justness of the conclusion which is drawn from them.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke