DELIVERED TO THE MOB BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE John Peterson, near Denmark, S.C., was suspected of rape, but escaped, went to Columbia, and placed himself under Gov. Tillman's protection, declaring he too could prove an alibi by white witnesses.
— from The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

[‘ dern ’] dierne (æ, e, y) I. hidden, secret, obscure, remote , B, El, Lk ; CP: deceitful, evil, magical , B, CP, Gen .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

The good-natured complaints of Plutarch, and the pathetic lamentations of Ovid, seduce our reason, by exciting our sensibility.
— 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

What would you say again to the tale of Zeus, who, while other gods and men were asleep and he the only person awake, lay devising plans, but forgot them all in a moment through his lust, and was so completely overcome at the sight of Here that he would not even go into the hut, but wanted to lie with her on the ground, declaring that he had never been in such a state of rapture before, even when they first met one another 'Without the knowledge of their parents;' or that other tale of how Hephaestus, because of similar goings on, cast a chain around Ares and Aphrodite?
— from The Republic by Plato

Something of Omar Khayyam and something of Rabbi ben Ezra, expressed more at length and more mystically.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore

“You have no warranty for such an audacious doctrine, nor any covenant to support it,” cried David who was deeply tinctured with the subtle distinctions which, in his time, and more especially in his province, had been drawn around the beautiful simplicity of revelation, by endeavoring to penetrate the awful mystery of the divine nature, supplying faith by self-sufficiency, and by consequence, involving those who reasoned from such human dogmas in absurdities and doubt; “your temple is reared on the sands, and the first tempest will wash away its foundation.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

He pondered for a while, then broke The silence, and thus calmly spoke: “Forth from thy sides again shall spring, O royal bird, each withered wing, And all thine ancient power and might Return to thee with strength of sight.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

`What I may doon, I shal, whyl I may dure 295 On lyve in torment and in cruel peyne, This infortune or this disaventure, Allone as I was born, y-wis, compleyne; Ne never wil I seen it shyne or reyne; But ende I wil, as Edippe, in derknesse 300
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

Food is, in this manner, not only the original source of rent, but every other part of the produce of land which afterwards affords rent, derives that part of its value from the improvement of the powers of labour in producing food, by means of the improvement and cultivation of land.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The pointed ends of Page 9 [9] the letters V and W should, for similar optical reasons, be extended slightly below the bottom guide lines, the amount of this extension being determined by the letters on each side of them.
— from Letters & Lettering: A Treatise with 200 Examples by Frank Chouteau Brown

"You have no warranty for such an audacious doctrine, nor any covenant to support it," cried David, who was deeply tinctured with the subtle distinctions which, in his time, and more especially in his province, had been drawn around the beautiful simplicity of revelation, by endeavoring to penetrate the awful mystery of the divine nature, supplying faith by self-sufficiency, and by consequence, involving those who reasoned from such human dogmas in absurdities and doubt; "your temple is reared on the sands, and the first tempest will wash away its foundation.
— from The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

Seal of Richard Beauchamp earl of Warwick and of Albemarle and lord Despenser, 1421 209 126 .
— from Heraldry for Craftsmen & Designers by Hope, W. H. St. John (William Henry St. John), Sir

Transnational Issues Bangladesh Disputes - international: discussions with India remain stalled to delimit a small section of river boundary, exchange 162 miniscule enclaves in both countries, allocate divided villages, and stop illegal cross-border trade, migration, violence, and transit of terrorists through the porous border; Bangladesh resists India's attempts to fence or wall off high-traffic sections of the porous boundary; a joint Bangladesh-India boundary inspection in 2005 revealed 92 pillars are missing; dispute with India over New Moore/South Talpatty/Purbasha Island in the Bay of Bengal deters maritime boundary delimitation; Burmese Muslim refugees strain Bangladesh's meager resources Refugees and internally displaced persons: refugees (country of origin): 21,053 (Burma) IDPs: 65,000 (land conflicts, religious persecution) (2006)
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The House readily accepted the explanation (as was only to be expected), and declared that the petition and narrative might and should of right be entered on the records of the Common Council.
— from London and the Kingdom - Volume 2 A History Derived Mainly from the Archives at Guildhall in the Custody of the Corporation of the City of London. by Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson) Sharpe

on your allegiance, hold!" said the Duke, gratified at the same time, and somewhat appeased, by the zeal which was displayed 183 in his cause—moved by the strain of reckless bravery evinced by the challenger, with a hardihood akin to his own—perhaps also not unwilling to display, in the view of his cour plénière , more temperance than he had been at first capable of.
— from Anne of Geierstein; Or, The Maiden of the Mist. Volume 2 (of 2) by Walter Scott

In addition to the common treasury, supported by the general taxes and charged with the ordinary expenditure, there was a special reserve fund, also in the temple of Saturn, the aerarium sanctum (or sanctius), probably originally consisting of the spoils of war, afterwards maintained chiefly by a 5% tax on the value of all manumitted slaves, this source of revenue being established by a lex Manlia in 357.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

Yet when it is used as an argument to justify slavery, or to silence our respectful but earnest remonstrances, we take exception to the parallelism on which these arguments are made to rest.
— from Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands, Volume 1 by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Some days passed and nothing was said to him on the subject of religion, but every care for his bodily comfort was redoubled; no one now scarcely dared hope for his return to God, for his malady increased, and likewise his impiety; all contented themselves with praying for him, and recommending him to the prayers of others.
— from The Miraculous Medal: Its Origin, History, Circulation, Results by Jean Marie Aladel