The curious and inquiring are most apt to migrate; the enterprising will not submit to be shut away behind rocks and mountains; by their departure there would be instituted, behind the barriers of rock and hill, a survival of the stupidest.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

The account of the divisions and sub-divisions of the Vellālas recorded above may be supplemented from various sources:— 1.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

At home he is looked upon as still a child, and I had little difficulty in arranging for him to sleep in a little dressing room adjoining my bedroom, with which there is a door of communication.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

The revision of Treaties is entrusted primarily, not to the Council, which meets frequently, but to the Assembly, which will meet more rarely and must become, as any one with an experience of large Inter-Ally Conferences must know, an unwieldy polyglot debating society in which the greatest resolution and the best management may fail altogether to bring issues to a head against an opposition in favor of the status quo .
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

It happened that Montoni and his companions were assembled in the room, and Montoni began to relate the extraordinary history of the lady, his predecessor, in the castle.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

At first there was some idea of renting a house for Robertson and myself, but finally the Colonel decided to give us rooms at one end of the rambling two-storied building that was then occupied as a Legation.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

There is a rumpus among my bowels, i.e. I have the colic.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

Richard and Moncharmin, by little Meg herself (the worthy Madame Giry, I am sorry to say, is no more) and by Sorelli, who is now living in retirement at Louveciennes: all the documents relating to the existence of the ghost, which I propose to deposit in the archives of the Opera, have been checked and confirmed by a number of important discoveries of which I am justly proud.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

He had a great many good friends who lived in furnished rooms, Falzfein, Galyashkin, Nechaiev, Yechkin ... not a few among them were honest and self-sacrificing, and some of them had attempted to save these women.... All these few attempts, thought Vassiliev, rare attempts, may be divided into three groups.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The shops were remodeled, and many believe that he did more for the prosperity of the place than any other superintendent.
— from The Strange Story of Harper's Ferry, with Legends of the Surrounding Country by Joseph Barry

Mrs. Henry Rhodes and Miss Blossom were to take them to town for a whole joyous Monday.
— from Girls of Highland Hall: Further Adventures of the Dandelion Cottagers by Carroll Watson Rankin

"He was to go to church with Ruth and me, but say to him, please, that we are not going this morning."
— from The Hills of Refuge: A Novel by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

I have heard him at reel and march, but these were not his fancy: for him the piobaireachds that scholarly ones play!” “My gallant boy!” said Baldi Crom, rubbing soft on the shoe with the palm of a hand.
— from The Lost Pibroch, and other Sheiling Stories by Neil Munro

The Board of Health , appointed annually by the council, looks after the health of the town, with authority to carry out such sanitary regulations as may be deemed wise and expedient.
— from A Virginia Village by Charles Alexander Stewart

General A. Jackson's army subdued the revolt, after many bloody victories, in the battle of the Horse-Shoe Bend, and by taking Pensacola, the seaport from which the Spaniards had supplied the insurrection with arms.
— from A Migration Legend of the Creek Indians, vol. 1 With a Linguistic, Historic and Ethnographic Introduction by Albert S. (Albert Samuel) Gatschet

The situation is entirely worthy of being a royal residence, a more beautiful being scarce to be found; for, from the brow of a gentle rising, it enjoys the prospect of an even and green country; its front commands a valley extended every way, and chequered with arable lands and pasturage, clothed up and down with groves, and watered by that gentlest of rivers, the Thames; behind rise several hills, but neither steep nor very high, crowned with woods, and seeming designed by Nature herself for the purpose of hunting.
— from Travels in England During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, and Fragmenta Regalia; Or, Observations on Queen Elizabeth, Her Times and Favourites by Paul Hentzner

"I'll give up my rooms at Mrs. Benn's, thankfully, and we can take some others, somewhere near Fleet Street, until we can get on our feet," he went on.
— from People of Position by Stanley Portal Hyatt

But the Materialists decried this pessimistic faith and held forth a great hope that if they adhered to all the platitudes they would have the pleasure of shuffling off the immortal coil and being reborn as material beings.
— from The Book of Gud by Harold Hersey

The worst of it is that robbery and murder become just that: a trade, like servicing robots or selling groceries."
— from Space Viking by H. Beam Piper