Rate each prisoner or captured civilian according to your best judgment.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

Then there follows before the entrance to the baptismal font a regular exorcism pronounced over the child: the priest taking some of his own saliva on the thumb of his right hand, touches the child’s
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

It was built in a manner common at the South; a wide verandah of two stories running round every part of the house, into which every outer door opened, the lower tier being supported by brick pillars.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Then he holds his candle before a richly engraved picture of the Saviour, done on a messy slab of gold, and wonderfully rayed and starred with diamonds, which hangs above the hole within the altar, and his solemnity changes to lively admiration.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

To coach is to instruct as regards either physical or mental acquirements.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

At present the governors, induced by the motives which I have named, treat their subjects badly; while they and their adherents, especially the young men of the governing class, are habituated to lead a life of luxury and idleness C both of body and mind; they do nothing, and are incapable of resisting either pleasure or pain.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

ANT: Encouraging, promising, reassuring, enticing, passed, overpast, withdrawn.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Take parings of nails, hair, eyebrows, spittle, and so forth of your intended victim, enough to represent every part of his person, and then make them up into his likeness with wax from a deserted bees’ comb.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

And I will inform you of the result, either personally or by letter, before the last train leaves for London tonight.” With that, she stepped into the chaise, and, taking the reins herself, drove off to Frizinghall.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

F.S.A. Return Emblematic print of the South-Sea Scheme.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

The detached stanza of French poetry you send me is a rather exaggerated piece of enthusiasm as it stands thus alone; though, incorporated in the poem to which it belongs, the effect of it may be striking.
— from Records of Later Life by Fanny Kemble

When a grave, able, and authoritative philosopher explains a mother’s love of her newborn babe, as Professor Bain has done, in a really eloquent passage of his book on the “Emotions and the Will” (Second Edition, pp. 78, 79), then the end of that philosophy is very near; and an older, simpler, more human, and, as I hold, more philosophic explanation of that natural phenomenon, and of all others, may get a hearing.
— from Scientific Essays and Lectures by Charles Kingsley

Why, she rode en pillion on Manuel's mule, behind him, holding on by his sash, across to the corral yesterday; and you should have seen Manuel absolutely scrape the ground before her with his sombrero when he let her down.”
— from The Bell-Ringer of Angel's, and Other Stories by Bret Harte

The editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer, having been one of a recent excursion party on the opening of a new section of railroad, remarks on the occasion, 'It is really amusing to see the sensation a train of railroad cars produces on all animate beings, human and brute, for the first few times it passes over a section of road.
— from Scientific American magazine Vol 2. No. 3 Oct 10 1846 The Advocate of Industry and Journal of Scientific, Mechanical and Other Improvements by Various

In the centre of these wild countries, where there will long be no other road than the rivers, every project of civilization should be founded on an intimate knowledge of the hydraulic features of the country, and the relative importance of the tributary streams.
— from Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Alexander von Humboldt

"Certainly I do," he replied; "every particular of it."
— from Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume I by M. Y. Halidom

Also, in reading each provision of the fundamental rights, one can guess which party has furnished the first part of a phrase and which the second.
— from The New German Constitution by René Brunet

The red they either dig up from the earth, fit for use, in the form of red earthy pebbles, or they find it in the form of a brilliant yellow clay, which they beat, clean, and dry, leaving it exposed to the air for several days, when they bake it in a bark basket, and then, if the clay is good and it has been well prepared and burnt, it is nearly as bright as vermilion.
— from Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1 by Grey, George, Sir

The remark, 'His son shall be the youngest Earl of England but one,' remains equally puzzling on either construction.
— from Sir Walter Ralegh: A Biography by W. (William) Stebbing