This pagan worship, in spite of local variations, essentially one, is an element in all religions.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

She often looked very earnestly at me, as she knew me, and showed a great desire to speak with me; but of her I durst take no kind of notice.
— from Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal An Authentic Narrative of the Horrors, Mysteries, and Cruelties of Convent Life by Sarah J. Richardson

In paragraph 5, same page, he says: “We are to observe that among the many things I brought out of the ship, I got several of less value, etc., which I omitted setting down as in particular pens, ink and paper!”
— from The Delicious Vice by Young Ewing Allison

I moved about from shelf to shelf, taking down one book after another, and while thus engaged came upon a series of large volumes extra-illustrated in water-colors of unusual beauty.
— from The House of a Thousand Candles by Meredith Nicholson

We passed such odd little villages every here and there.
— from Diary of a Pilgrimage by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

It leads into a short or long vagina (ectodermic), bifurcating into the two uteri, which may be long or short; the long filiform ovaries are continuations of them (fig. 264).
— from The Animal Parasites of Man by Fred. V. (Frederick Vincent) Theobald

Cubitus : of Comstock, is the 5th in the series of longitudinal veins extending from base, and usually two branched before reaching outer margin: in Orthoptera; = the internomedian and ulnar: in Neuroptera, a main longitudinal vein next behind the medius and before the anal: the tibia of the anterior leg.
— from Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John Bernhard Smith

Such pagan worship, in spite of local variations, essentially one, is an element in all religions.
— from The Renaissance: studies in art and poetry by Walter Pater

Twice he marched out against the Armenian land on the shore of Lake Van; eight times he made campaigns in the land of the rivers, i. e. Mesopotamia.
— from The History of Antiquity, Vol. 2 (of 6) by Max Duncker