She was already ordering, haranguing, rebuking, and, it must be said, cursing her servants for delays. 'Get her her pipe.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

They were conveyed to the cavern, and the opening closed upon them, leaving them to find security from dishonour in the devouring element.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

For example, I see a ship float down the stream of a river.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

In the sixteenth century the palm is given to the cuisse dame , or madame ; the bon chrétien , brought, it is said, by St. François de Paule to Louis XI.; the bergamote , which came from Bergamo, in Lombardy; the tant-bonne , so named from its aroma; and the caillou rosat , our rosewater pear.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

Entrando el uno en la otra, parecía que la momia recibía por arte 25 maravillosa el don de la vida, y bulliciosa saltaba fuera del húmedo sarcófago para bailar en torno de él.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Danneil is of the opinion that the head and its feathers were to be saved for decorative purposes, in style during the middle ages when game bird patties were decorated with the fowl’s plumage, a custom which survived to Danneil’s time (ca. 1900).
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

How true it is that the same social institution can successively fulfil different functions without changing its nature!
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

2, but without sagittal feet.) Dimensions.
— from Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, Second Part: Subclass Osculosa; Index Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-76, Vol. XVIII by Ernst Haeckel

She finally determined to push the matter from her mind, when a sudden smile leaped to her eyes.
— from The Liberty Girl by Rena I. Halsey

I told him he was my dad, and that he was a walking delegate of the Amalgamated Association of Negro Lynchers, and when a negro did anything that he ought to be punished for they sent for dad, and he took charge of the proceedings and saw that the negro was hanged, and shot, and burned up plenty.
— from Peck's Bad Boy Abroad Being a Humorous Description of the Bad Boy and His Dad in Their Journeys Through Foreign Lands - 1904 by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck

"The old reeve or bailiff was supplanted by mayor and aldermen, and the practice of sending the reeve and four men as the representatives of the township to the shire-moot widened into the practice of sending four discreet men as representatives of the county to confer with the king in his great council touching the affairs of the kingdom."
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 11: American Founders by John Lord

"During spring, the young crops must be protected from frost, and in summer from drought by copious manure-waterings and frequent stirring of the ground between the plants.
— from The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. by Fearing Burr

Another writer says: "Three miles above Forestburgh village, the stream falls into a chasm seventy feet deep, and the banks above the falls are over one hundred feet high."
— from Footprints of the Red Men Indian geographical names in the valley of Hudson's river, the valley of the Mohawk, and on the Delaware: their location and the probable meaning of some of them. by Edward Manning Ruttenber

But the most serious subject for difference was that of representation in the senatorial branch of the national legislature, the smaller states claiming, and the larger ones opposing, the exercise of the rule of equality.
— from Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. by Benson John Lossing

[289] Lastly, a popular English moralist, whom I have already quoted, and to whom I refer because his name is so familiar, Dr. Paley, says, that the principal part of what is called the Law of Nations derives its obligatory character " simply from the fact of its being established, and the general duty of conforming to established rules upon questions and between parties where nothing but positive regulations can prevent disputes, and where disputes are followed by such destructive consequences."
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 02 (of 20) by Charles Sumner