After sacrificing some fowls to the Sun-god and the demon of the grove, the men eat and drink.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

But they still looked disapproval, and she so far conceded to Mr. Beebe as to say that she would only go for a little walk, and keep to the street frequented by tourists.
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

But though great changes came, they did not reach to Sherwood's shades, for there Robin Hood and his men dwelled as merrily as they had ever done, with hunting and feasting and singing and blithe woodland sports; for it was little the outside striving of the world troubled them.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

Vasili Ivanitch's eyes closed suddenly, while his cheeks quivered, and the spade slipped from his hand.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

And now he kept thinking and he longed to pitch upon some one significant thought unlike others, which would be a guide to him in life, and he wanted to think out principles of some sort for himself so as to make his life as deep and earnest as he imagined that he felt himself to be.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Fongen , v. to take, receive, PP, S, S2, S3; fangen , PP; fang , S2; see Fon .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

The Prince even suspected that the Friar depended on some secret support from Frederic, whose arrival, coinciding with the novel appearance of Theodore, seemed to bespeak a correspondence.
— from The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

I had a thought that we might very likely get a salute of some sort from our old friends, and I was saying so to my wife but now.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

s. , S. ( For- 1 .)
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

“Which I won’t deny as it is stuffy, sir, far from it,” said Billy; “but when you get used to the smell you don’t mind, and I’m sure Jack likes it.
— from Mother Carey's Chicken: Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle by George Manville Fenn

“She has a more crimson topknot than the Fox here——” There came a sudden scream from the front seat of the automobile.
— from Ruth Fielding at Silver Ranch; Or, Schoolgirls Among the Cowboys by Alice B. Emerson

He mentioned the dangerous insurrections of the slaves in Greece and Sicily, and the instructions [pg 422] given by Cromwell to the commissioners sent to Virginia,—to arm the servants and slaves, in case other means of obtaining its submission should fail.
— from History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens by George Washington Williams

Or does our soul still feel the pains of parturition?
— from Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 4 In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods by Plotinus

Jupiter answers him: If you will renounce Rome, the Parcae shall spin for you different fates, you shall become wise, you shall be happy.
— from Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von

That good-natured giant seemed determined to outdo Tepus by a tiny margin in each separate shot; for the first and the second shafts grazed his rival’s on the inner side, while for the third Little John did the old trick of the forest: he shot his own arrow in a graceful curve which descended from above upon Tepus’s final center shaft with a glancing blow that drove the other out and left the outlaw’s in its place.
— from Robin Hood by J. Walker (Joseph Walker) McSpadden

Even though she was a spirit and this great grassland was sunny, she felt cold, and her stomach knotted.
— from Shaman by Robert Shea

Slowly they wormed their way through the [332] throng that packed the street solidly from side to side.
— from Catcher Craig by Christy Mathewson