In the western tribes everyone coming thus to procure paint makes a prayer beside the rock and hangs a small sacrifice upon a convenient bush or stick before beginning operations.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

He is an ordinary party politician; a party politician means a politician who might have belonged to either party.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

[ L. pecten] pīl m. a pointed object, spike, nail, shaft, stake , Æ : arrow, dart, javelin : pl. hairs of plants , Lcd 1·304.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

If therefore all mathematics affords us an exhaustive knowledge of that which in the phenomena is quantity, position, number, in a word, spatial and temporal relations; if all etiology gives us a complete account of the regular conditions under which phenomena, with all their determinations, appear in time and space, but, with it all, teaches us nothing more than why in each case this particular phenomenon must appear [pg 158] just at this time here, and at this place now; it is clear that with their assistance we can never penetrate to the inner nature of things.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

"I have all the passions pretty mildly, and pretty well under control.
— from Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims by François duc de La Rochefoucauld

et and -que concilium, conci´lî , n., council, assembly Helvêtiî, -ôrum , m., the Helvetii , a Gallic tribe passus, passûs , m., a pace , five Roman feet; mîlle passuum , a thousand (of) paces , a Roman mile quâ dê causâ , for this reason, for what reason vâllum, -î , n., earth-works, rampart cadô, cadere, cecidî, câsûrus , fall (decadence) dêdô, dêdere, dêdidî, dêditus , surrender, give up ; with a reflexive pronoun, surrender one's self, submit , with the dative of the indirect object premô, premere, pressî, pressus , press hard, harass vexô, vexâre, vexâvî, vexâtus , annoy, ravage (vex)
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

et and -que concilium, conci´lī , n., council, assembly Helvētiī, -ōrum , m., the Helvetii , a Gallic tribe passus, passūs , m., a pace , five Roman feet; mīlle passuum , a thousand (of) paces , a Roman mile quā dē causā , for this reason, for what reason vāllum, -ī , n., earth-works, rampart cadō, cadere, cecidī, cāsūrus , fall (decadence) dēdō, dēdere, dēdidī, dēditus , surrender, give up ; with a reflexive pronoun, surrender one’s self, submit , with the dative of the indirect object premō, premere, pressī, pressus , press hard, harass vexō, vexāre, vexāvī, vexātus , annoy, ravage (vex)
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

6. Multōrum proeliōrum, praedae magnae, ad proelia dūra.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Printed books, pamphlets, and newspapers, bound or unbound, maps, photographs, printed music, and paper for music. 40.
— from A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 9, part 1: Benjamin Harrison by Benjamin Harrison

Respected Friends:—Humanity to an injured people prompts me at present to address you thus: You were aware of the treatment (to some extent before you left home) received by that unfortunate race of beings called the Mormons, from Daviess, in the form of human beings inhabiting Daviess, Livingston, and part of Ray counties; not being satisfied with the relinquishment of all their rights as citizens and human beings, in the treaty forced upon them by General Lucas, by giving up their arms, and throwing themselves upon the mercy of the state, and their fellow citizens generally, hoping thereby protection of their lives and property, they are now receiving treatment from those demons, that makes humanity shudder, and the cold chills run over any man, not entirely destitute of the feelings of humanity.
— from History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Volume 3 by Smith, Joseph, Jr.

Blackstone, Nottoway Co., Va. WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.: Gentlemen —Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and "Pleasant Pellets" made a perfect cure of me.
— from The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand by Ray Vaughn Pierce

Hot Wires, Priming Powder, Matches, and Portfires.
— from Gunpowder and Ammunition, Their Origin and Progress by H. W. L. (Henry William Lovett) Hime

These instances, of course, are taken from the dark ages of education, but even to-day I believe that a false idea of the value of a printed page merely as print—not as the record of a mind, ready to make contact with the mind of a reader—has impressed itself too deeply on the brains of many children at an age when such impressions are apt to be durable.
— from A Librarian's Open Shelf: Essays on Various Subjects by Arthur E. (Arthur Elmore) Bostwick

"MINIATURE & PORTRAIT PAINTING Mr. Alfred Praga, R.B.A. , President of the Society of Manicurists." Advt.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 147, August 12, 1914 by Various

After he left the White House, he and Mrs. Grant made a trip around the world and became the guests of kings, queens, princes, prime ministers, and peoples.
— from Hero Tales from History by Smith Burnham

In addition to the works above enumerated, he also published some extremely valuable tracts, several editions of a work which ought to be read by all young Christians—A Treatise on the Covenants of the Law and of Grace; several editions of Sighs from Hell; A Map of Salvation and Damnation; The Four Last Things, a poem; Mount Ebal and Gerizim, or, Redemption from the Curse, a poem; Prison Meditations, a poem: the four last are single sheets, probably sold by his children or friends to assist him in obtaining his livelihood:
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan