Some of the names used by Fontanedo about 1575 for the tribes northward from Appalachee bay seem to be derived from this source, as in later times were the names of the other tribes of the Gulf region, without regard to linguistic affinities, including among others the Taensa, Tunica, Atakapa, and Shetimasha, representing as many different linguistic stocks.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

“I believe as my fathers taught,” said Rebecca; “and may God forgive my belief if erroneous!
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

Finally, I may mention that as regards the sexual relation, a man is committed to a peculiar arrangement which drives him obstinately to choose one person.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism by Arthur Schopenhauer

'That is to say, Miss Wren,' observed Eugene, quite ready to profit by the hint, 'you wish me to go?' 'Well, it's Saturday night,' she returned, 'and my child's coming home.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

We saw the sun rise at midsummer, we shall see it rise at Christmas or some other fine winter’s day; for you know we are no lie-a-beds and we enjoy the cold.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

[3782] be contented then I say, repine and mutter no more, for thou art not poor indeed but in opinion.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

On the contrary the spontaneous relations among men, as we see in the case of children, and as we may infer from the life of the lower animals, are highly competitive, personal prowess and ascendency being everything and little regard being paid to descent simply as such.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

That night, then, was somewhat riotous, as may be imagined.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Addicted so and so;’ and there put on him What forgeries you please; marry, none so rank As may dishonour him; take heed of that;
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

[Sidenote: AMBITIOUS WORKS] Other works of Bacon are seldom read, and may be passed over lightly.
— from Outlines of English and American Literature An Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived by William J. (William Joseph) Long

"All the letters sent to foreign countries and all the important State records are marked with both dates."
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 25: Russia and Poland by Giacomo Casanova

the same author saith; there is not in some respect a more and a less in the matter of duty, and in the matter of truth, or in respect of suffering.
— from A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields

He invited a party of 2500 Sea-Dayaks from Sekrang to ascend the Sarawak river and massacre the Land-Dayaks, Malays, and Chinese in the interior.
— from A History of Sarawak under Its Two White Rajahs 1839-1908 by C. A. Bampfylde

But few years ago, we remember returning at early dawn from a party, when we encountered several persons, and two guards, standing round a man on the ground weltering in blood yet flowing warm from a deep wound in his side.
— from The Prime Minister by William Henry Giles Kingston

Brady, who understood his friend better than all the rest, strove to shelter him by talking longer and laughing louder than usual; but this Miss Standish resented as much as Flint's silence, and set it down to flippancy.
— from Flint: His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes by Maud Wilder Goodwin

In response to the “call” came a spontaneous, remarkable, almost mad rush of recruits.
— from South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 6 (of 8) From the Occupation of Pretoria to Mr. Kruger's Departure from South Africa, with a Summarised Account of the Guerilla War to March 1901 by Louis Creswicke

She remembered how her mother had said that Ranulph would be a great man in the island some day; that he had a mind above all the youths in St. Heliers; that she would rather see Ranulph a master ship-builder than a babbling ecrivain in the Rue des Tres Pigeons, a smirking leech, or a penniless seigneur with neither trade nor talent.
— from The Battle of the Strong: A Romance of Two Kingdoms — Complete by Gilbert Parker

Christiane stopped, and the shadow remained also motionless, lying down, fallen on the road.
— from Mont Oriol; or, A Romance of Auvergne: A Novel by Guy de Maupassant