A small sum of money, called uramurai kattu (money paid to relations) and panda varisai (money paid in the pandal), is also paid by the bridegroom’s party for a feast of toddy to the relations.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

Maner , sb. manor, PP; manere , P, Voc.; manoir , PP; maners , pl. , farms, possessions, W; maneres , P.—AF.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Upon examination, this point of view turns out to be: "I am not worth much," simply a psychological valuation; more plainly still: it is the feeling of impotence, of the lack of the great self-asserting [Pg 297] impulses of power (in muscles, nerves, and ganglia).
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

130 Maro Virgil, whose full name was Publius Vergilius Maro, Pope here praises Virgil's well-known imitation of Homer.
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

Nuestro padre vendió muchas pieles de puma y de jaguar y levantó
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Greek Philosophy viewed men principally as constituent parts of a [Greek: polis], considering this function to be the real End of each, and this state as that in which the Individual attained his highest and most complete development.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

[In a pathetic voice.] Miss Prism, more is restored to you than this hand-bag.
— from The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People by Oscar Wilde

Besides the quæstors who by virtue of their office were to prosecute Volscius, many persons on their own account, and on their private responsibility, cited him into court, and challenged him to discuss the case before a judge.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

At this signal prioress, vocal mothers, professed nuns, lay-sisters, novices, postulants, interrupt what they are saying, what they are doing, or what they are thinking, and all say in unison if it is five o’clock, for instance, “At five o’clock and at all hours praised and adored be the most Holy Sacrament of the altar!”
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

But if one is unaffected by the mythical and anecdotal view of Swinburne—if what one chiefly wants is greater insight into the poet’s art and his ways of thinking and feeling, the present volume may prove unsatisfying.”
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

THE DEAD HERO AN ELECTION ECHO 1906 THE SONG OF THE WHEELS THE SECRET PEOPLE VI MISCELLANEOUS POEMS LOST BALLAD OF THE SUN TRANSLATION FROM DU BELLAY THE HIGHER UNITY THE EARTH'S VIGIL ON RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION
— from Poems by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

And you are pale, very much paler than usual."
— from Avarice--Anger: Two of the Seven Cardinal Sins by Eugène Sue

All the other MSS. of the Familiar Epistles flowed from this discovered by Petrarch, as we learn from a passage of Lagomarsinus, who speaks thus of the different codices of the Epistolæ Familiares : “Quibus tamen ego codicibus non tantum tribuo, quantum uni illi omnium quotquot ubique terrarum, idem epistolarum corpus continentes, extant, vetustissimo, (et ex quo cæteros omnes qui usquam sunt tanquam e fonte ac capite manâsse, et Angelus Politianus, et Petrus Victorius memoriæ prodiderunt,) qui Florentiæ in Mediceo-Laurentianæ Bibliothecæ XLIX.
— from History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Vol. II by John Colin Dunlop

Utah : junction Trout and Ashley Creeks, 9700 ft. (Durrant, 1952:35); Mirror Lake, 10,000 ft.; Mt. Baldy R. S. (Durrant, 1952:53); Wildcat R. S.; Pine Valley Mts.; Puffer Lake; Butterfield Canyon.
— from Speciation of the Wandering Shrew by James S. (James Smith) Findley

Luogo e` la` giu` da Belzebu` remoto tanto quanto la tomba si distende, che non per vista, ma per suono e` noto d'un ruscelletto che quivi discende per la buca d'un sasso, ch'elli ha roso, col corso ch'elli avvolge, e poco pende.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

This visit from so important a personage very much puzzled Nicholas, who stood the whole time the mandarin was closeted with his father, leaning against a gun, in deep thought.
— from The War Tiger Or, Adventures and Wonderful Fortunes of the Young Sea Chief and His Lad Chow: A Tale of the Conquest of China by William Dalton

And when he emerged from his retirement some time after the steamer was well under way, none of the officers even thought of throwing the poor goat overboard; for Little Hans became a great favorite with both crew and passengers, although he played various mischievous pranks, in his quiet, unostentatious way, and ate some shirts which had been hung out to dry.
— from The Modern Vikings: Stories of Life and Sport in the Norseland by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen