Children belong to the clan of the mother, and the law forbidding marriage between persons of the same clan is still enforced among the conservative [ 213 ] full-bloods.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

SYN: Peculiarity, constitution, temperament, specialty, characteristic, individuality, singularity, eccentricity.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

We Lacedaemonians thought of you as allies eager to have us, to whom we should come in spirit even before we were with you in body; and in this expectation undertook all the risks of a march of many days through a strange country, so far did our zeal carry us.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Perdite amavit mulierculam quandam, illius amplexibus acquiescens, summa cum indignatione suorum et dolore.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

They are many; but he sums up his experience by saying that whether he measured by inspirations that were divided by momentary pauses into six parts, or by inspirations that were continuous; whether with sensory tension during inspiration and relaxation during expiration, or by tension during both inspiration and expiration, separated by a sudden interpolated relaxation; whether with special notice taken of the cephalic tensions, or of those in the trunk and shoulders, in all cases alike and without exception he involuntarily endeavored, whenever he compared two times or tried to make one the same as the other, to get exactly the same respiratory conditions and conditions of tension, all the subjective conditions, in short, exactly the same during the second interval as they were during the first.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Considered in space, it exhibits certain coexisting elements so closely interdependent, so exclusively made for one another, that not one of them could, at the same time, belong to two different organisms: each living being is a closed system of phenomena, incapable of interfering with other systems.
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson

But in the intervals of the Byzantine dynasties, the succession is rapid and broken, and the name of a successful candidate is speedily erased by a more fortunate competitor.
— 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

The poor creature took refuge in one of the holes, but was soon converted into some exquisite soup for mutton and damper diggers.
— from Notes of a Gold Digger, and Gold Diggers' Guide by James Bonwick

So the ten war prahus of the Malay pulled quietly out of the little cove upon the east side of the island, and bending their way toward the south circled its southern extremity and bore away for Borneo.
— from The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Schilsky came in, somewhat embarrassed by the lull which had succeeded the hubbub heard in the passage, but wholly unconcerned at the lateness of the hour: except in matters of practical advancement, time did not exist for him.
— from Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson

'So can I,' said Eliza disdainfully; 'but, you see, it's too late for that.
— from Oswald Bastable and Others by E. (Edith) Nesbit

The 'and' in the second clause is substantially equivalent to 'for.'
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers by Alexander Maclaren

"I have no thought of turning aside the sword of justice, but shall court its sharpest edge, hoping by a full avowal of my offences, in some degree to atone for them.
— from The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth

"Who is it speaks?" cried I, searching every corner of the dark hall with narrowed eyes.
— from Idonia: A Romance of Old London by Arthur Frederick Wallis

The figure's shoes, carved in some Eastern style, had curved up-pointing toes.
— from Mr. Wicker's Window by Carley Dawson