Migámit siyag pilduras arun dílì manganak, She used pills to prevent pregnancy.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

It may be said here that the wise policy of the British Government severely punishes a disregard of the practices of the native religions.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

(See Pezron, Antiquite des Tems defendue, p. 20—28.)
— 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

Among these, however, were some of superior abilities, and a few whom Montoni admitted to his intimacy, but even towards these he still preserved a decisive and haughty air, which, while it imposed submission on weak and timid minds, roused the fierce hatred of strong ones.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

One singular prediction almost drove the unhappy people mad.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

There Abel is with the martyrs, Noah is with the sailors, Thomas is with the Indians, Peter is with the apostles, Paul is with the Greeks, other saints are with other suitable persons, and David is with the kings.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

Note 30 ( return ) [ I shall quote the authentic testimony of the Saxon poet, (A.D. 887—899,) de Rebus gestis Caroli magni, l. v. 437—440, in the Historians of France, (tom. v. p. 180:)
— 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

Mr. Woods explains it by the parallel of such phrases as {Danaoisi makhes epitarrothoi}, to mean "thou shalt be a helper (of the Lacedemonians) in the matter of Tegea," but this perhaps would be a form of address too personal to the envoy, who is usually addressed in the second person, but only as representative of those who sent him.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

15 Hoc tibi servasti praestandum, Antique Dierum, Quo viso, et vivit, et juvenescit Adam.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

The extreme bitterness of the substance precluded all doubt; it was certainly the precious extract of quinine, that pre-eminent antifebrile.
— from The Secret of the Island by Jules Verne

Not so Pontiac at Detroit, because no settlers were invading his hunting-grounds.
— from The War Chief of the Ottawas : A chronicle of the Pontiac war by Thomas Guthrie Marquis

She shrank, and yet again she said that she would rather have his cruelty than another man's tenderness, so long as she knew that she had his— She paused, and did not say the word.
— from The Trespasser, Volume 2 by Gilbert Parker

Uttering this exclamation in a tone of great surprise, as his eyes rested on Oliver, Mr. Toby Crackit brought himself into a sitting posture, and demanded who that was.
— from Cruikshank's Water Colours by William Harrison Ainsworth

mart, though she is still poor and disconsolate, and her trials and afflictions far from being ended; nevertheless, though sorely tried, Providence has been kind to her.
— from The Irish Race in the Past and the Present by Augustus J. Thébaud

368 In the second place, a distinction was drawn between the perfected heretic and the imperfect .
— from Mediæval Heresy & the Inquisition by Arthur Stanley Turberville

It is true, her face and piled-up hair, painted and dyed into an extravagant caricature of youth, aped the graces of sixteen, and at the first glance touched the note of the grotesque rather than the beautiful; but it needed only a second look to convince me that with all that she on whom I looked was a great lady of the world, so still she sat, and so proud and dark was the gaze she bent on me over her clasped hands.
— from Shrewsbury: A Romance by Stanley John Weyman

"Now, sit you down on that stool," said Puderlein, "and do not stir till I give you leave.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870 by Various

Such courage, such faith, such unshaken adamantine belief in the essential soundness and healthfulness that lay beneath all this weltering and chaotic world of folly and evil about him, in conjunction with such pessimism and despondency, was never before seen in a man of letters.
— from Fresh Fields by John Burroughs

She stared at the spot intensely, and saw a hand, a shade lighter than the darkness, travel across the surface of the rug, cover with its fingers the second parcel and draw it backwards into what had now become dense night.
— from The Happy Foreigner by Enid Bagnold