All nations almost have been besotted in this kind; amongst our Britons and old Gauls the Druids; magi in Persia; philosophers in Greece; Chaldeans amongst the Oriental; Brachmanni in India; Gymnosophists in Ethiopia; the Turditanes in Spain; Augurs in Rome, have insulted; Apollo's priests in Greece, Phaebades and Pythonissae, by their oracles and phantasms; Amphiaraus and his companions; now Mahometan and pagan priests, what can they not effect?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The sloth and inactivity which overcame the other orders place in greater contrast the ambition and the activities, both secular and spiritual, of the Jesuits.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

On the Purāṇas in general, consult introd.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

We were disputing a nice point in grammar; contradictions raged hotly--''Tis so!'
— from Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

Whatsoever brings about the preservation of the proportion of motion and rest, which the parts of the human body mutually possess, is good; contrariwise, whatsoever causes a change in such proportion is bad.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

prior in generation, Col. 1.15; a firstborn head of a spiritual family, Ro. 8.29.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

An effigy called Caramantran, whimsically attired, is drawn in a chariot or borne on a litter, accompanied by the populace in grotesque costumes, who carry gourds full of wine and drain them with all the marks, real or affected, of intoxication.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

[A13; a12] make into, put in glazed clay jars.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The railroad from Columbus to Corinth was at once put in good condition and held by us.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

CHAUMETTE, notice of, signs petition, in governing committee, at King's trial, demands constitution, arrest and death of.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Toward noon the heavy train pulled into Glen City and they bundled out on to the platform.
— from The Story of Wool by Sara Ware Bassett

It can be no matter of surprise that this language, as spoken among this people, is generally corrupted, when we consider, that, for many centuries, they have known nothing of elementary science, and have been strangers to books and letters.
— from The Gipsies' Advocate Or, Observations on the Origin, Character, Manners, and Habits of the English Gipsies by James Crabb

My mother's father, William Kenworthy, born January 22, 1780 (presumably in Guilford County, North Carolina), lived about a mile and a half from our place, and died at Thorntown, August 31, 1854.
— from My Story by Anson Mills

Thence rose from table before dinner ended, and homewards met my wife, and so away by coach towards Lovett's (in the way wondering at what a good pretty wench our Barker makes, being now put into good clothes, and fashionable, at my charge; but it becomes her, so that I do not now think much of it, and is an example of the power of good clothes and dress), where I stood godfather.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1666 N.S. by Samuel Pepys

The play is generally considered to be the earliest of the supreme plays.
— from William Shakespeare by John Masefield

The latter is preferred in Granville county, North Carolina, that produces the finest yellow tobacco grown on this continent, or, perhaps, in the world.
— from Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by E. R. Billings

That recently-deceased nobleman was one of Mr. Croker’s most attached friends, and opposite his Lordship’s pew in Grimston church, Yorkshire, a neat marble tablet was erected bearing the following inscription: “In memory of Thomas Crofton Croker, Esq., the amiable and accomplished author of the ‘Fairy Legends of Ireland,’ and other works, Literary and Antiquarian.
— from A Walk from London to Fulham by Thomas Crofton Croker

This form of glove has, however, rather gone out of use of late years, most archers preferring independent guards, called tips, for each finger, generally fastening by means of an India-rubber ring round the finger, about the best of this kind being those invented by Mr. Buchanan, of Piccadilly.
— from Archery Rules by Charles F. A. Hinrichs

We are like the princesses in the fairy tales, shut up in the moated tower; only then there were always fairy godmothers to come to the rescue, and beautiful princes in golden chariots.
— from Sisters Three by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

The afternoon was spent very pleasantly in general conversation.
— from The Eclipse of Faith; Or, A Visit to a Religious Sceptic by Henry Rogers