Cedar —For references to the sacred character of the cedar among the plains tribes, see the author’s Ghost-dance Religion, in the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, part 2, 1896.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

In the second century of the Christian Aera, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind.
— 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 idea is applied by Schiller in his Maria Stuart , where the captive Queen of Scots calls on the clouds as they fly southwards to greet the land of her youth (act iii.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

One day, without consulting Legree, she suddenly took it upon her, with some considerable ostentation, to change all the furniture and appurtenances of the room to one at some considerable distance.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The second crossing of the Channel, and the first by a 'heavier-than-air' machine, was effected by Louis Blériot in a machine of his own construction with an Anzani engine from Calais to Dover on 25th July, 1909.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

[70] See Frazer, On Some Ceremonies of the Central Australian Tribes in Australian Association for the Advancement of Science , 1901, pp. 313 ff.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Then arranging other small compresses on the canthi at their extremities we direct the assistant, who stands behind, to stretch the eyelid by means of them.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

The MS. reads: "And on the hunter hied his pace, To meet some comrades of the chase;" and the 1st ed.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

I believe that Lady Howard, from the beginning of the transaction, suspected some contrivance of the Captain; and this letter, I am sure, must confirm her suspicion: however, though she is not at all pleased with his frolic, yet she would not hazard the consequence of discovering his designs: her looks, her manner, and her character, made me draw this conclusion from her apparent perplexity; for not a word did she say that implied any doubt of the authenticity of the letter.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

From the same cause, I have other little private superstitions about the ostrich; there was no ostrich, so far as I can remember, in my Noah's ark, whence I derive my conviction that the species cannot have existed at the time of the Deluge, but has been evolved, in the succeeding centuries, by a gradual approach and assimilation of the several characteristics of the camel and the goose.
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 05, Issue 25, January 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

The author of the schism, in spite of all the positive elements he retained during the whole of this period of reaction and till the very end, had no settled conception of the Church, and the subjective element, and with it the negative, disintegrating tendency therefore necessarily predominated in his mind.
— from Luther, vol. 3 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

"It was in the spring of sixty-four, Just a little while ere the war was o'er, That 'twas mine the mail bags to transport From Stevenson Pass to Totten fort; [Pg 267] Through the rugged passes the route to take O'er the mountains that frown on Devils Lake; Those canyons alive with skulking crews Of the Chippewas and the savage Sioux; But my heart felt light and my arm felt strong
— from North Dakota: A Guide to the Northern Prairie State by Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of North Dakota

It drops into the southeast corner of this cyclone and there you are!
— from The Way of the Wind by Zoé Anderson Norris

To give the designed objects of the Saviour's atonement a greater extension than the covenant of grace, is to nullify its character as the stipulated condition of the covenant, and to render nugatory and unavailing the consolatory address by which the heart of many an awakened sinner has been soothed.
— from The Ordinance of Covenanting by John Cunningham

In the scenes engraved upon the stele of Sharru-Gi [85] the king's enemies are Semites, so that even in his time we have the picture of different Semitic clans or tribes contending among themselves for the possession of the countries they had overrun.
— from A History of Sumer and Akkad An account of the early races of Babylonia from prehistoric times to the foundation of the Babylonian monarchy by L. W. (Leonard William) King

The human stomach consists of three coats; and two of these, the outermost or peritoneal coat, and the middle or muscular coat, are so
— from The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by Hugh Miller

You have heard the silly cackle of the camp about the escape of Concha.
— from The Firebrand by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett