“I have been assured that the shaving process is so efficacious that, as the vessel represents the head of the person standing his trial, wherever it is scraped the wizard’s hair will fall off in a corresponding spot.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

There were two political parties, it is true, in all the States, both strong in numbers and respectability, but both equally loyal to the institution which stood paramount in Southern eyes to all other institutions in state or nation.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

I think differently; for a strategic point is such essentially and by nature, and, no matter how far distant it may be from the scene of the first enterprises, it may be included in the field by some unforeseen turn of events, and thus acquire its full importance.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

= KEY: Sore \a.\. SYN: Painful, irritated, susceptible, excoriated, raw, scarified, ulcerous, grievous, afflictive, heavy, burdensome.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

When the verb in a sentence precedes its subject, English often uses an introductory particle, such as "there," "it."
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

With which she presented it sulkily enough.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

There are certain statues placed in sacred edifices that seem to sink under their load, and almost to perspire, when in reality they are void of sensation, and do not contribute to the stony stability, so these men would wish to look like Atlases, when they are no better than statues of stone, insignificant scrubs, funguses, dolts, little different from stone.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Paul Diacre, in speaking of Gregory the Great, who in 590 succeeded Pelagius II. says expressly, that it was not permitted to instal a pope without the order of the Greek emperor.
— from The Power of the Popes An Historical Essay on Their Temporal Dominion, and the Abuse of Their Spiritual Authority by P. C. F. (Pierre Claude François) Daunou

She seemed to be telling a narrative to Atli, who, with folded arms and deep attention that sometimes passed into suppressed emotion, looked intently at her, and frequently broke in with some whispered question.
— from Vandrad the Viking; Or, The Feud and the Spell by J. Storer (Joseph Storer) Clouston

Soft, soft, pursue it soft; excellent Soldiers, Close, my brave fellows, honorable Romans : Oh cool thy mettle Junius , they are ours, The world cannot redeem 'em: stern Petillius , Govern the conquest nobly: soft, good Soldiers.
— from Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 06 of 10 by John Fletcher

But since lighting on those sparkling pebbles in somebody else's Gladstone bag, he had been one mass of nerves, and of exposed nerves, too.
— from The Datchet Diamonds by Richard Marsh

It was formerly the general custom, still practised in some establishments, to dry the skins by hanging them up, leather-side out on lines in a large room or loft, the heat being usually supplied by steam pipes.
— from Principles and Practice of Fur Dressing and Fur Dyeing by William E. Austin

"And these—ah—females," said Rushford, and waved his hand at the serried photographs, "I suppose even they are necessary to your existence."
— from Affairs of State Being an Account of Certain Surprising Adventures Which Befell an American Family in the Land of Windmills by Burton Egbert Stevenson

We entered upon a chain of hills, amongst which our road led in the most circuitous and intricate mazes I had ever trod; heights and depths, ravines, dry or water courses, rugged promontories, short stony plains, in short, every species of mountain difficulties, diversified our path for full fifteen miles, till we arrived at a once formidable barrier, not far from which we caught a view of the meandering river Zohaub.
— from Ruins of Ancient Cities (Vol. 1 of 2) With General and Particular Accounts of Their Rise, Fall, and Present Condition by Charles Bucke

I mean not only happiness, but also sorrow, passion, in short every serious tie with life.
— from Royal Highness by Thomas Mann