The profession and practice of exorcism and magic in general is greatly more prominent in Lamaism or Tibetan Buddhism than in any other known form of that religion.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Were we all of one way of thinking, our religious dispositions would want matter for probation; and on this liberal principle, I look on the various denominations among us, to be like children of the same family, differing only, in what is called, their Christian names.
— from Common Sense by Thomas Paine

This plausibility and confidence are faculties really inherited from nature, and effectually serve the possessor, in lieu of that learning which is not to be obtained without infinite toil and perseverance.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

There was something so repugnant to her just pride, in laying open the secret of her heart to such a man as Morano, and in suing to him for compassion, that she impatiently rejected this design and wondered, that she could have paused upon it for a moment.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

When taken from the water the patient is laid on the ground face downward, arms extended above the head, face a little to one side, so as not to prevent the free passage of air.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

The doctor said give him the tea at pleasure; it lay on the table by his side, and he used it every day.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

They have been brought up to think that wives have very little purpose in life other than to be the slaves and playthings of their lords and masters, to bear and bring up children, and to keep meekly in the background.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Long a fixture on the bleedingly trendy Queen Street West strip, Pages is located over the road from CityTV and just a few doors down from the old Bakka store where I worked.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

In this connection it is interesting to observe that the Archbishops of York anciently used the pallium in lieu of the official arms now regularly employed.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Only once, at dusk, while we were passing the Burlings, off Portugal, I looked over the rail of the bridge-deck and saw young Siddons leaning on the bulwarks below, his head turned toward someone I could not see.
— from Captain Macedoine's Daughter by William McFee

You yourself occupy such a high place in Letters oversea that such a recommendation of my verse cannot but result to my weal.
— from William Sharp (Fiona Macleod): A Memoir Compiled by His Wife Elizabeth A. Sharp by Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Amelia) Sharp

An' here, when I do teäke my road, At breakfast-time, agwaïn abrode, Why, I can zee if any plot O' groun' do want a hand or not; An' bid my childern, when there's need, To draw a reäke or pull a weed, [page 310] Or heal young beäns or peas in line, Or tie em up wi' rods an' twine, Or peel a kindly withy white To hold a droopèn flow'r upright.
— from Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by William Barnes

Time, whether future or past, is a great consoler, and a misfortune postponed, like a misfortune long past, is lost on the vague and distant horizon behind which lies the wide realm of forgetfulness.
— from Leon Roch: A Romance, vol. 1 (of 2) by Benito Pérez Galdós

M. de Laveleye,[463] the political economist, who is a Belgian and a Protestant, and whose testimony, therefore, we may the more readily take about France, says that France, being the country of Europe where the soil is more divided than anywhere except in Switzerland and Norway, is at the same time the country where material well-being is most widely spread, where wealth has of late years increased most, and where population is least outrunning the limits, which, for the comfort and progress of the working classes themselves, seem necessary.
— from Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold by Matthew Arnold

Whether George Sand is still alive as a novelist, apart from her place as an historic personality, I leave others to decide; but I am very sure that she would be read a great deal more than she is if she had not so confidently left her novels—to write themselves.
— from Vanishing Roads and Other Essays by Richard Le Gallienne

Much space is occupied by criticisms of the author’s own practice in living on the proceeds of Bank Stock, and his very cogent replies thereto.
— from The Harvest of Ruskin by John W. (John William) Graham

All evidence was of equal weight in his scales, provided it lay on the affirmative side of the balance.
— from The Beginners of a Nation A History of the Source and Rise of the Earliest English Settlements in America, with Special Reference to the Life and Character of the People by Edward Eggleston

[Pg iii] LIFE OF THE AUTHOR BY HIMSELF.
— from Philosophical Works, v. 1 (of 4) Including All the Essays, and Exhibiting the More Important Alterations and Corrections in the Successive Editions Published by the Author by David Hume

We cruised to the Eastward, near the coast of Portuigale: In longitude of twenty-seven we saw a lofty sail.
— from A Study of Hawthorne by George Parsons Lathrop