While work on the exterior was in progress, the building was covered in by a wooden shell, rendered transparent by thousands of small panes of glass.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

In some parts of Greece there were but two Horæ, Thallo, goddess of the bloom, and Carpo, of the corn and fruit-bearing season.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

In some parts of Greece at this day, like those old Jews, they will not believe their wives are honest, nisi pannum menstruatum prima nocte videant : our countryman [6141] Sands, in his peregrination, saith it is severely observed in Zanzynthus, or Zante; and Leo Afer in his time at Fez, in Africa, non credunt virginem esse nisi videant sanguineam mappam; si non, ad parentes pudore rejicitur .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

It was even probable that if some piece of game did fall into his clutches, none would be left for the hunters, if Top was hunting on his own account; but Neb watched him and he did well.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

By the specious professions of gratitude and voluntary attachment, the patrician might disguise his apprehensions of the Scythian conqueror, who pressed the two empires with his innumerable armies.
— 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

Yet did another plague seize upon those that were thus preserved; for there was found among the Syrian deserters a certain person who was caught gathering pieces of gold out of the excrements of the Jews' bellies; for the deserters used to swallow such pieces of gold, as we told you before, when they came out, and for these did the seditious search them all; for there was a great quantity of gold in the city, insomuch that as much was now sold [in the Roman camp] for twelve Attic [drams], as was sold before for twenty-five.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

They must be transformed into personal agents, living and thinking beings, spiritual powers or gods; for it is to beings of this sort that the cult is generally addressed.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Sūgambri, people of Germany.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

24, 25 Lycus, valley of the, at Hierapolis, v. 207 Lydia, female descent of kingship in, ii. 281 sq. ; prostitution of girls before marriage in, v. 38, 58; the lion-god of, v. 184; the Burnt Land of, v. 193 sq. ; traces of mother kin in, vi. 259; the burning of kings in, ix.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer

This is Pradhâna, undifferentiated matter in Sânkhya philosophy, or Good, Evil and Chaotic Darkness (Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas), neutralizing each other.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 3 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

These horns ( fig. 8 c´ ) are not the analogues of the spines which are articulated on the external membranes of many Pedunculated and Sessile Cirripedes, but of the calcified scales on the peduncle of Scalpellum and Pollicipes; for they pass through the membrane (the underlying corium being marked by their bases) and are persistent, being added to, like the valves, during each successive period of growth.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 1 of 2) The Lepadidae; Or, Pedunculated Cirripedes by Charles Darwin

One by way of the Mediterranean Sea to Alexandretta, the southern port or gateway; the other by the Black Sea, to reach the northern ports of Samsoun and Trebizond, lying along the southern coast of the Black Sea.
— from The Red Cross in Peace and War by Clara Barton

It is seldom difficult to see some such possibility of gain in the numerous well-known cases of insect mimicry.
— from Spiders by Cecil Warburton

Federico departed with six attendants [The Fioretto delle Cronache says "persons of gentle condition."]; but this flight caused still greater displeasure to his father, who now declared him banished, and threatened with heavy penalties any one who should give him help or favor.
— from Italian Journeys by William Dean Howells

“Fust-rate,” “prime,” “a prime article,” “a superior piece of goods,” “a handsome garment,” “a gent in a flowered vest,”—all such expressions are final.
— from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes

And her instinct must have told her that in him, Claude Heath, there was some particle of greatness.
— from The Way of Ambition by Robert Hichens

He was prepared to show, that, in their conduct, the Assembly had directly violated not only every sound principle of government, but every one, without exception, of their own false or futile maxims, and indeed every rule they had pretended to lay down for their own direction.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Edmund Burke