Unless we are mistaken they are recent formations and of little importance as far as the nature of the taboo is concerned.
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

The applications range from entertainment and the bizarre to databases and special services for professionals and organizations.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

Fitz-Greene Halleck's poem "To a Rose from near Alloway Kirk" (1822) is a good appreciation of Burns and his poetry.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

As a matter of fact, it is an almost inert substance, the imaginary virtues of which originated, doubtless, in the apparently remarkable fact that a stone (?) was produced inside of a vegetable.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

It was at this season that Aemilius celebrated a splendid triumph at Rome for his Illyrian victories; Contemporary events in Spain and Italy.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

MACBETH. 'Twas a rough fight.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

They are rarely formal and rarely arise by virtue of a failure to use logical principles; their ground is the inner paucity of a premise, which itself is erroneous because of an erroneous perception or conception.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

If you are seeking to avoid responsibility for your crimes on the ground of imbecility, such a line of defense is open to you.
— from The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc

He says (p. 149): "Lop must be looked for on the actual road from Charchan to Charkalyk.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

ἀπωσάμην, 22 to thrust away, repel from one's self, repulse, Ac. 7.27; to refuse, reject, cast off, Ac. 7.39; 13.46.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

"If you look out on those who are singing it, you'd see they are resting from their labours; that they are fighting the ennui which most of us feel when we rest from our labours.
— from No Defense, Volume 3. by Gilbert Parker

Revenues come from French Government subsidies, licensing of fishing rights to Japan and South Korea, import taxes, and remittances from expatriate workers in New Caledonia.
— from The 1997 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

ARTICLE 111 All Germans enjoy the right to travel and reside freely throughout the whole Commonwealth.
— from The New German Constitution by René Brunet

There are reasons for answering this question in the affirmative.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Out of the dust of his making, man Fashioned his works as the ages ran; Fortress, and palace, and temple, and tower, Filling the world with the proof of his power.
— from The Poems of Henry Van Dyke by Henry Van Dyke

He directed the estates to appoint receivers for all public taxes, and ordained that all military officers should make oath of fidelity to him, as stadholder, and to the estates of Holland, to be true and obedient, in order to liberate the land from the Albanian and Spanish tyranny, for the service of his royal Majesty as Count of Holland.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

Not a few of those young persons, who begin life with parlors and dresses in a style fitting only to established wealth, go into expenses, which they can ill afford; and are ashamed even to allow, that they are restrained from any expense, by motives of economy.
— from A Treatise on Domestic Economy; For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School by Catharine Esther Beecher

The English printers were now better able to cope with the demand, and of the forty-five Service-books in the Museum printed during these years, twenty-four were printed in London, against ten at Rouen, five at Paris, and six at Antwerp.
— from Old Picture Books, With Other Essays on Bookish Subjects by Alfred W. (Alfred William) Pollard

The Chinese, however, contrive to raise the purchase-money, and afford another instance of the folly and weakness of human nature, in transferring a regard for the living to the dead, and making that the object of solicitude and expence, which cannot receive the least benefit from either.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 by Robert Kerr