[ The curious reader may consult the learned and accurate treatise of Hadrian Reland, de Spoliis Templi Hierosolymitani in Arcu Titiano Romae conspicuis, in 12mo.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

xii.;) and the reader may compare his narrative with the Histoires des Allemands (tom. iii. iv.) by Schmidt, who has deserved the esteem of his countrymen.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Mrs Western was acquainted with all this matter by Betty, who, after receiving many commendations and some rewards for her fidelity, was ordered, that, if the woman who brought the letter came again, she should introduce her to Mrs Western herself.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

R Rabbit , character of, in various mythologies 231 – 233 [ 567 ] Rabbit , myths concerning 262 , 263 , 266 – 277 , 407 , 431 , 447 – 452 , 463 , 467 Rabbit and bear, distribution of myth of 234 Rabbit and Flint, origin of myth of 234 Racing among Indians 494 Racing in Seneca myth 369 Raccoon , myths concerning 289 – 290 , 449 Rafinesque, C. S. , on first appearance of whites 191 Rafinesque, C. S. , on name Tallige′wi 184 Rafinesque, C. S. , translation of Walam Olum by 190 Rafts , Cherokee use of 496 Railroads in Cherokee country 151 Rainbow , myths concerning 442 Ramsey, J. G. M. , on agitation for cession (1796) 80 Ramsey, J. G. M. on appointment of Governor Blount 69 Ramsey, J. G. M. on appointment of Cherokee agent by North Carolina 61 Ramsey, J. G. M. on attack on Buchanan’s station 73 Ramsey, J. G. M. on battle of Kings mountain 57 Ramsey, J. G. M. on border conditions in 1777 55 Ramsey, J. G. M. on bounties for American scalps 47 Ramsey, J. G. M. on burning of Cowee 61 Ramsey, J. G. M. on capture and release of Joseph Brown 66 Ramsey, J. G. M. on capture and release of Samuel Handley 74 Ramsey, J. G. M. on Cherokee attitude at beginning of the Revolution 47 Ramsey, J. G. M. on Cherokee desire for peace (1792) 72 Ramsey, J. G. M. on Cherokee land cessions 46 Ramsey, J. G. M. on Cherokee part in French and Indian war 39 Ramsey, J. G. M. on Cherokee peace town 207 Ramsey, J. G. M. on Cherokee war of 1760–61 45 Ramsey, J. G. M. on Chickasaw surrender of lands between Cumberland and Duck rivers 66 Ramsey, J. G. M. on Christian’s expedition 51 Ramsey, J. G. M. on destruction of Chickamauga towns 55 , 79 Ramsey, J. G. M. on Doherty-McFarland expedition 75 Ramsey, J. G. M. on expedition from Virginia through Cherokee country 30 Ramsey, J. G. M. on French and Spanish encouragement of Cherokee hostility 62 , 67 Ramsey, J. G. M. on Indian war path 206 Ramsey, J. G. M. on Indian fighting in 1793 76 Ramsey, J. G. M. on Jack’s expedition 50 Ramsey, J. G. M. on killing of Indians by John Beard 74 Ramsey, J. G. M. on minor Cherokee-American conflicts (1776–1795) 48 , 63 , 64 , 65 , 66 , 69 , 70 , 75 , 76 Ramsey, J. G. M. on Nancy Ward 204 Ramsey, J. G. M. on Old Tassel’s talk 60 Ramsey, J. G. M. on origin of Chickamauga band 54 Ramsey, J. G. M. on Gen. James Robertson 205 , 62 Ramsey, J. G. M. on Rutherford’s expedition 49 , 205 Ramsey, J. G. M. on Sevier and Campbell’s expedition (1780) 58 Ramsey, J. G. M. on Sevier’s expeditions (1781–82) 59 , 60 Ramsey, J. G. M. on Sevier’s last expedition (1792) 75 Ramsey, J. G. M. on Tellico conference 79 Ramsey, J. G. M. on The Suck 464 Ramsey, J. G. M. on threatened burning of Chilhowee 73 Ramsey, J. G. M. on Tory-Indian raid in South Carolina 47 Ramsey, J. G. M. on treaties of DeWitt’s corners and Long island 54 Ramsey, J. G. M. on treaty of Holston 69 Ramsey, J. G. M. on treaty of Hopewell 62 Ramsey, J. G. M. on treaty of Nashville (1783) 63 Ramsey, J. G. M. , on treaty of Tellico (1798) 81 Ramsey, J. G. M. on westward emigration 45 Ramsey, J. G. M. on Williamson’s expedition 50 Ramsey, J. G. M. on Yuchi among Cherokee 386 Ranjel , —— , on De Soto’s expedition 25 , 26 , 191 – 201 Rasles , mutilation of body of 209 Rattlesnake , myths and lore concerning 253 , 295 – 296 , 305 – 306 , 313 , 436 , 438 , 456 , 463 Rattling-gourd on Natchez among Cherokee 387 Rattling-gourd on Yuchi among Cherokee 385 Raven , myths concerning 241 , 283 Raven Mocker , myths concerning 283 , 401 – 403 ,504 Raven place , purchase of 161 Raven, The , pursuit of Shawano by 374 – 375 Reading , myth concerning 351 Rebellion , see Civil war .
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

"We are now waiting," replied Mrs. Chou, "for my lady's orders."
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

“Well,” replied Monte Cristo “suppose, then, that this poison was brucine, and you were to take a milligramme the first day, two milligrammes the second day, and so on.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Whoever conducts himself in this manner will be free from grief, and from every other perturbation; and a mind free from these feelings renders men completely happy; whereas 143 a mind disordered and drawn off from right and unerring reason loses at once, not only its resolution, but its health.—Therefore the thoughts and declarations of the Peripatetics are soft and effeminate, for they say that the mind must necessarily be agitated, but at the same time they lay down certain bounds beyond which that agitation is not to proceed.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Unhappy man!” cried Grimaud, whose face was covered with sweat at the bare idea of the evil results such a revelation might cause; “unhappy man, you named no one, I hope?”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

She should ever remember Mr. Crawley's kindness to her in early days when she was a friendless orphan, the instructress of his little sisters, in whose welfare she still took the tenderest interest.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

refrigerante , cooling, refrigerative; m. ( Chem. ), refrigerator.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

It is only fair to ask that the republic make clear what it expects that servant to do.
— from A History of Sea Power by William Oliver Stevens

"That is too long a story to tell," rejoined Mexton coolly; "but I got the clue on the day you found the Rainbow Feather on this very spot.
— from The Rainbow Feather by Fergus Hume

"It's quite right, Mrs. Crayfield," she said with reassuring inflection.
— from Star of India by Alice Perrin

The raw material consists of the children of succeeding generations, helpless and inefficient because of ignorance and immaturity.
— from New Ideals in Rural Schools by George Herbert Betts

L'accueil que vous me faites comme chef du gouvernement fédéral et comme représentant sa majesté la reine, me convainc que le jour de la St. Jean Baptiste
— from Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses by Argyll, John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Duke of

The sailor's delight in hyperbole led one of our comrades to relate most charmingly the story of the baker's first appearance in Stromboli.
— from The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century by Runciman, Walter Runciman, Baron

On the 10th my army, resuming its retrograde movement, crossed to the north side of Cedar Creek.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

First, on the extreme south-west, Monte Viso, then Mont Cenis, between them the less lofty Superja; near Turin, Mont Blanc, the great St. Bernard, Monte Rosa most conspicuous of all; to the left of these last, the Matterhorn, then the Cima de Jazi, Streckhorn near the Mischabel, Monte Leone near the Simplon; away to the north the summits of the St. Gothard and Splügen, and in the distant east the peak of the Ortler.
— from Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta by W. Cope Devereux