It was too hot this way, and Tsiska′gĭlĭ′, the Red Crawfish, had his shell scorched a bright red, so that his meat was spoiled; and the Cherokee do not eat it.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Feasts, balls, masquerades and tiltings delight such as but rarely see, and desire to see, them; but having been frequently at such entertainments, the relish of them grows flat and insipid.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Why cats should show affection by rubbing so much more than do dogs, though the latter delight in contact with their masters, and why cats only occasionally lick the hands of their friends, whilst dogs always do so, I cannot say.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

Perhaps you have only seen a ballet rustic, smiling like a merry countryman in crockery, with graceful turns of the haunch and insinuating movements of the head.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

‘Stop a bit,’ replied Sam, suddenly recollecting himself.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

2 The flashing and golden pageant of California, The sudden and gorgeous drama, the sunny and ample lands, The long and varied stretch from Puget sound to Colorado south, Lands bathed in sweeter, rarer, healthier air, valleys and mountain cliffs, The fields of Nature long prepared and fallow, the silent, cyclic chemistry, The slow and steady ages plodding, the unoccupied surface ripening, the rich ores forming beneath; At last the New arriving, assuming, taking possession, A swarming and busy race settling and organizing everywhere, Ships coming in from the whole round world, and going out to the whole world, To India and China and Australia and the thousand island paradises of the Pacific, Populous cities, the latest inventions, the steamers on the rivers, the railroads, with many a thrifty farm, with machinery, And wool and wheat and the grape, and diggings of yellow gold.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

But Joachim said the Second Apocalyptic Beast represented some great prelate who will be like Simon Magus, and, as it were, universal Pontiff, and that very Antichrist of whom St. Paul speaks.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

And because the body works upon the mind, they shall have grosser understandings, dull, foggy, melancholy spirits, and be really subject to all manner of infirmities.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The Hebrew term that gives another letter to the word God and makes it good , unites Science and Christianity, whereby we learn that God, good, is universal, and the divine Principle,—Life, Truth, Love; and this Principle is learned through goodness, and of Mind instead of matter, of Soul instead of the senses, and by revelation supporting reason.
— from The People's Idea of God: Its Effect On Health And Christianity by Mary Baker Eddy

Thus, we have Dandy Birk, or Danes Hill; Stirzacre, and Barnacre, respectively Stirs land and Biorn's land.
— from The Danes in Lancashire and Yorkshire by S. W. Partington

Ye haue heard before, how the lord of Rauenstein, by the aid of Bruges & Gant, had taken the towne and two castels of Sluis, which he kept against his souereigne lord Maximilian, and getting into the hauen certeine ships and barks, robbed, spoiled, & tooke prisoners the ships and vessels of all nations that passed alongest by that coast, towards the mart at Antwerpe, or into anie part of Brabant, Zeland, or Friseland, and was euer sufficientlie vittelled out of France and Picardie.
— from Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (3 of 6): England (7 of 9) Henrie the Seauenth, Sonne to Edmund Earle of Richmond, Which Edmund was Brother by the Moothers Side to Henrie the Sixt by Raphael Holinshed

If the owls or porcupines (and I think I heard one of the latter in the middle of the night) reconnoitred our camp, they saw a buffalo robe spread upon a rock, with three old felt hats arranged on one side, and three pairs of sorry-looking cowhide boots protruding from the other.
— from A Year in the Fields by John Burroughs

And, as a matter of course, all the signs of turbulence in the country ceased; the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act being repealed soon after the next meeting of Parliament.
— from William Cobbett: A Biography in Two Volumes, Vol. 2 by Edward Smith

[Pg 814] As we may geif a symylitude, wail lyke Quhen that the hyrd hes fund the beys byke, Closit vnder a dern cavern of stanys, And fillit hes full sone that litill wanys With smoik of sowr and byttir rekis stew; 5 The beys within, affrayt all of new, Ourthwort thar hyvis and walxy tentis rynnys, With mekill dyn and bemyng in thar innys, Scharpand thar stangis for ire, as thai wald fycht: Swa heir, the laithly odor rais on hycht 10 From the fyre blesis, dyrk as ony roik, That to the ruffis toppys went the smoik; The stanys warpit in fast dyd rebund, Within the wallis rays gret bruyt and sound, And vp the reik all void went in the air, 15 Quhar as na tenementis stud nor howsis war.
— from The Æneid of Virgil Translated Into Scottish Verse. Volumes 1 & 2 by Virgil