All things have their seasons, even good ones All think he has yet twenty good years to come All those who have authority to be angry in my family Almanacs
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Spinning among Cherokee 82 , 101 , 105 , 214 Spinning among East Cherokee 176 Spirit folk , Cherokee 475 – 477 Sports , discussion of lxiii–lxviii Sprague , Senator, speech by, on Georgia laws affecting Cherokee 118 Spray, H. W. , acknowledgments to 13 Spray, H. W. , East Cherokee teacher and agent 176 , 180 Spreading-adder , myths and lore concerning 252 , 253 , 297 , 436 , 438 Spring place , establishment of mission at 107 Springstone on Nancy Ward 204 Squash , myth concerning 471 Squier, E. G. , on Cherokee myths 436 , 440 , 442 Squier, E. G. on Cherokee New-fire ceremony 502 – 503 Squier, E. G. on the heavens in mythology 431 Squirrel , myths concerning 251 , 262 – 263 , 286 – 287 Stand Watie , burning of Ross’s house by 365 Stand Watie , myths told by 429 , 444 Stand Watie on Iroquois peace embassy 352 , 353 Stand Watie on Iroquois wars 352 Stand Watie , part taken by, in Civil war 148 , 149 Stand Watie , threat against Ross by 134 Stanley, J. M. , on Iroquois peace embassy 485 – 488 Stapler , Miss ——, marriage of John Ross to 224 Star feathers , legend of 399 – 400 Starr, James , flight of 134 Starr, Tom , legend concerning 286 Stars , myths and lore concerning 257 , 258 , 442 , 445 , 503 State rights , bearing of Removal struggle on 129 Stecoee , destruction of 49 Stedman on English attempts to enlist Indian aid during the Revolution 47 Stein, Robert , work of xviii Steiner , Rev. Abraham , Cherokee missionary 84 Steiner, Roland , collection by xx–xxi Stephen, A. M. , work of xli Stephen , Col. ——, expedition against Cherokee under 45 Stevens on defeat of Creek and Cherokee in Georgia (1781) 60 [ 572 ] Stevens on Picken’s expedition (1782) 60 Stevens on Priber’s work 37 Stevens on treaties of De Witt’s corners and Long island 54 Stevens on treaty of Augusta (1763) 45 Stevens on treaty of Hopewell 62 Stevenson , Mrs M. C., model of Zuñi altar by xlviii Stevenson , Mrs M. C., study of fraternities and cults by xlvii Stevenson , Mrs M. C., work of xxvii–xxviii Stevenson , ——, on petroglyphs at Track Rock gap 419 Stikâ′yĭ , see Stecoee .
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Sometimes each grain of ore appears to be considered as endowed with a separate entity or individuality.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

When one feels life within him—whether it be in the form of painful irritation or happy enthusiasm—he does not believe in death; so he becomes reassured and takes courage again, and subjectively, everything goes on as if the rite had really driven off the danger which was dreaded.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

However this might be, there he was; and as he was all alone, neither the powder, nor the wrinkles, nor the eyes, had the smallest effect, good or bad, upon anybody just then, and are consequently no business of ours just now.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

In short, since elders grow of a more pleasing sound, and fitter to make flutes, in such places where the crowing of cocks is not heard, as the ancient sages have writ and Theophrastus relates; as if the crowing of a cock dulled, flattened, and perverted the wood of the elder, as it is said to astonish and stupify with fear that strong and resolute animal, a lion.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Pale and shaken, Emma got out of the wagon to stand beside Joe.
— from The Lost Wagon by Jim Kjelgaard

As the time came to leave, my mother glanced about her with an emotion which she brokenly expressed when she said, "I don't suppose I shall ever get over here again.
— from A Daughter of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland

" The half-way measures of later British lexicographers are shown in their omission of the u from words which Dr. Johnson spelled emperour , governour , oratour , horrour , and dolour , while still retaining it in favour and honour and a few others.
— from Americanisms and Briticisms; with other essays on other isms by Brander Matthews

"Now you need not trouble yourself to hunt for fine words," she forestalled the somewhat embarrassed greeting of her young kinsman.
— from The Vinland Champions by Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina) Liljencrantz

Looking through it intently for a moment and handing the glass to me, said, "I can see everything going on over there, and you need have no uneasiness about your folks while gone," and I did not.
— from The Busy Life of Eighty-Five Years of Ezra Meeker Ventures and adventures; sixty-three years of pioneer life in the old Oregon country; an account of the author's trip across the plains with an ox team; return trip, 1906-7; his cruise on Puget Sound, 1853; trip through the Natchess pass, 1854; over the Chilcoot pass; flat-boating on the Yukon, 1898. The Oregon trail. by Ezra Meeker

Sir Edward Grey, on July 27, 1914, telegraphed to the British Ambassador at Petrograd:—"I have been told by the Russian Ambassador that in German and Austrian circles impression prevails that in any event we would stand aside."
— from The Great War and How It Arose by Anonymous

So Daphnis to his memory bids be done- And rear a tomb, and write thereon this verse: 'I, Daphnis in the woods, from hence in fame Am to the stars exalted, guardian once Of a fair flock, myself more fair than they.'"
— from The Bucolics and Eclogues by Virgil

Cassano e sacerdotibus ecclesiae Graecae, Oct. 20, 1732.” (Greg. 486.)
— from A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener

Sir, I should consider it the most auspicious event of my life if I could see every gentleman on this floor determined to take and maintain the true old American ground occupied by the patriots of '76.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress