The woman added, that the Jews having pierced these hosts with sticks and knives, such a quantity of blood poured from them that the culprits were struck with terror, and concealed themselves in their quarter.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

The principle of a gas trap between, say, a kitchen sink and the drain to carry [Pg 375] off the water is given in Fig.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

She has no name—that is, she’s a Karenina,” said Anna, dropping her eyelids till nothing could be seen but the eyelashes meeting.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

manere , 143 maner , manoir ; Late Lat. manerium (Ducange). Manere , sb. a kind, sort, also manner, custom, S, S2, C, P; maneir , S2; maner , S3, C, P; measure, moderation, W; maners , pl. , S2. Phr. : of manere , in his behaviour, C2; maner doctrine , kind of doctrine, C2; maner thing, maner sergeant, maner wyse, maner wyght , C2.—AF. manere ; Late Lat.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

the words Koka Shastra and Kama Shastra are used indiscriminately.
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Vatsyayana

These lords in council bore their part With ready brain and faithful heart, With skill and knowledge, sense and tact, Good to advise and bold to act.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Cats cover up their excrements of both kinds with earth; and my grandfather [116] {sic} saw a kitten scraping ashes over a spoonful of pure water spilt on the hearth; so that here an habitual or instinctive action was falsely excited, not by a previous act or by odour, but by eyesight.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

`But nathelees, this warne I yow,' quod she, `A kinges sone al-though ye be, y-wis, 170 Ye shal na-more have soverainetee Of me in love, than right in that cas is; Ne
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

He put his satchel over his shoulder, and kissed Samoylenko and the deacon.
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

"'How is it, Jake?' inquired one sportsman, who, although a good shot, and knew something about hunting, was often unfortunate, 'that you never come home without a lot of birds?' "Jake grinned, half closed his eyes, and replied: 'Oh, I don't know that there's anything queer about it.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

I say, par, did you ever see a checkered adder a charmin a bird, with his head stuck up in the sun, and kinder slanted a one side,—his mouth wide open, and that are leetle forked tongue a tremblin in the middle on it, as if it was sot to dancin by that lazy hum, hum, hum, that comes etarnally a bilin up from the pison critter's throat?
— from High Life in New York A series of letters to Mr. Zephariah Slick, Justice of the Peace, and Deacon of the church over to Weathersfield in the state of Connecticut by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

These need reform in the matter of buildings, equipment, and teachers’ salaries; if good teachers are to be secured, and kept steadily at work to earn their salaries, they must be promptly paid—prompt payment of any employees is a difficult matter in Liberia.
— from Liberia: Description, History, Problems by Frederick Starr

Larsen’s hotel on the corner of Second and King streets, and such a shinning of swallow-tailed coats up blue ladders was never seen.
— from Peck's Compendium of Fun Comprising the Choicest Gems of Wit, Humor, Sarcasm and Pathos of America's Favorite Humorist by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck

When the hotel was reached, and she and Katrine sat alone for a few minutes waiting the arrival of drinks, she looked at the girl with a kindly twinkle and said abruptly: “No need to take it to heart, my dear.
— from An Unknown Lover by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

Clyffurde, silent and keeping somewhat aloof from the brilliant throng, saw that de Marmont did not enter into any of these conversations.
— from The Bronze Eagle: A Story of the Hundred Days by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

The Swedish archæologists, Knut Stjerna and O. Almgren, agree with Engelhardt, dating the finds between about 250 and 450 A.D. (Stjerna's Essays , trans.
— from Beowulf: An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by R. W. (Raymond Wilson) Chambers