Mujra is a salutation of respect used to a superior.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

The poison had left no marks upon her body: No one suspected the true cause of her death, and it remained unknown to all, save the Assassins and Myself.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

When dry let it be stretched even, clapped with the hands, and rolled up tight and smoothly, till wanted.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

This was repeated until the animal succumbed, becoming exhausted by the wounds he had received."
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

Perhaps I have gone too far towards the other extreme in relying upon the Anglo-Saxon side of the English language rather than upon the Latin, and in taking no liberties whatever with the text of 1568.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

B Reflecting upon these and similar evils, you held the tyrannical State to be the most miserable of States?
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

“One moment, one moment!” replied the adjutant, and riding up to a stout colonel who was standing in the meadow, he gave him some message and then addressed Pierre.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Lord Rosebery reminds us that at St. Helena the Emperor actually shot a cow!
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

In Locke, a distinction is already drawn between the legal and the actual Sovereign, which Locke calls "supreme power"; Rousseau unites the absolute Sovereignty of Hobbes and the "popular consent" of Locke into the philosophic doctrine of popular Sovereignty, which has since been the established form of the theory.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

As she spoke she was raising the torch till its light illuminated, so far as was possible, the extreme [295] angle of the cavern where it ran up to a sort of point.
— from The Mystery of the Sea by Bram Stoker

Many of them, perhaps the greater part of them, have even endeavoured to gain credit by refining upon this austere system, and by carrying it to some degree of folly and extravagance; and this excessive rigour has frequently recommended them, more than any thing else, to the respect and veneration of the common people.’
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 3 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

Ricardo understood this, and said,— "No! that color does not suit you.
— from The Marquis of Peñalta (Marta y María): A Realistic Social Novel by Armando Palacio Valdés

He is called so, first, because He restores us to a state of friendship with God; and, secondly, because a sense of that fills the whole soul with a peace which passeth understanding.
— from The Angels' Song by Thomas Guthrie

The order was carried out to the letter, each man as he got into the barrow being run up to and shot out on to the verandah, every one of them on recovering his feet touching his cap to the host, who stood beside the open door, and saluting him with the words: “Come on board, sir.”
— from Camp Fire Yarns of the Lost Legion by G. Hamilton-Browne

As yet the hut remained uninjured, though a semicircle of fire raged furiously close to it, and here and there, where a bush still stood, or some tufts of grass had not been closely cropped, the flames made advances, and, winding along the ground, rose up, flickered, and died.
— from The Gilpins and their Fortunes: A Story of Early Days in Australia by William Henry Giles Kingston