Funeral Rites Not understanding the real nature of death, the Chinese believed it was merely a state of suspended animation, in which the soul had failed to return to the body, though Page 40 it might yet do so, even after long intervals.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

Italian-like, she was naturally superstitious, while, at the same time, her mind was filled with wild romances dealing with beautiful and unfortunate heroines shut up in gloomy castles, or beset in strange inns and out-of-the-way places at night and hidden in dungeons, or thrown into torrents and rivers not unlike the rapid swirling river now rushing beneath, or almost beneath, her windows.
— from Traitor and True: A Romance by John Bloundelle-Burton

As it went off, he was surprised at a singular noise which it made in running, not unlike the rattling of two pieces of loose bone knocked sharply together; in fact, a pair of castanets.
— from The Plant Hunters: Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains by Mayne Reid

They rested not until they reached the temple of Sakara in the valley of the Nile.
— from The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ The Philosophic and Practical Basis of the Religion of the Aquarian Age of the World and of The Church Universal by Levi

[54] In the old days, when the Royal Navy used the red, white, and blue ensigns, the red ensign was of the highest dignity; and it was this from 1821 to 1829 that the Royal Yacht Squadron flew, but, as the red ensign was also used by merchant vessels, they adopted in 1829 the white ensign as being more distinctive.
— from The Flags of the World: Their History, Blazonry, and Associations by F. Edward (Frederick Edward) Hulme

"Readers of 'Soldiers of the Saddle,' 'Capture, Prison-Pen and Escape,' and other writings of Captain Glazier will require no urging to read the entertaining volume 'Down the Great River.'
— from Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier by John Algernon Owens

“And do you read nothing upon the right side?”
— from The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1 by Fanny Burney

The reader himself must remember, in the annals of the curious and learned societies, whole fruit-basketfuls of cherries, whose red pencilling was only faint on children, and heightened in redness not until the ripening of the prototypes on the twigs.
— from Hesperus; or, Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography. Vol. I. by Jean Paul

A governor of the State is elected for one year only, but it is customary or at any rate not uncustomary to re-elect him for a second year.
— from North America — Volume 1 by Anthony Trollope

He had made the journey to New York more than once, and as he rode north up the road to Bristol in a heavy downfall of rain he reflected that Carteaux would cross the Delaware by the ferry at that town, or farther on at Trenton.
— from The Red City: A Novel of the Second Administration of President Washington by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell