She thus comes out, and yields herself to the influence of the magician, who leads her to a retired spot either in the compound (grounds), or elsewhere in the neighbourhood, strips her naked, and tells her to lie flat.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

It began four days after he was prohibited from preaching there, and raged so extremely, that it was almost beyond credit how many died in the space of twenty-four hours.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

They pay real estate taxes and road service, exercise the voting privilege, 462 and are amenable to the local courts, but do not pay poll tax or receive any pauper assistance from the counties; neither can they make free contracts or alienate their lands (49).
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

The moonlight was as bright as day, the air warm and balmy; and the aromatic, resinous smell exuded by the heat from the balm-of-gilead and the pine-trees in the forest, added greatly to our sense of enjoyment as we floated past scenes so wild and lonely—isles that assumed a mysterious look and character in that witching hour.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Winter O Magnet-South Mannahatta All Is Truth A Riddle Song Excelsior Ah Poverties, Wincings, and Sulky Retreats Thoughts Mediums Weave in, My Hardy Life Spain, 1873-74 By Broad Potomac's Shore From Far Dakota's Canyons [June 25, 1876] Old War-Dreams Thick-Sprinkled Bunting As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days A Clear Midnight BOOK XXXIII.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

The men sent to Virginia *a were seekers of gold, adventurers, without resources and without character, whose turbulent and restless spirit endangered the infant colony, *b and rendered its progress uncertain.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

And at a dinner of ceremony, elbows on the table are rarely seen, except at the ends of the table, where again one has to lean forward in order to talk to a companion at a distance across the table corner.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Does not every American Christian owe to the African race some effort at reparation for the wrongs that the American nation has brought upon them?
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Science says things are; morality says some things are better than other things; and religion says essentially two things.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

Among insect enemies, the aphids, red spiders, eel worms, gall flies, and slugs may be mentioned.
— from Three Acres and Liberty by Bolton Hall

In his Legacy Ieyasu expresses a desire to tolerate all religious sects except the Christian.
— from Japan by David Murray

Yet, though the woods no longer thrill As once their arches rung, Sweet echoes hover round thee still Of songs thy summer sung.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Despite increasing pressure from the IMF to accelerate reform, substantial economic restructuring remains unlikely in 2000, largely because of resistance in the communist-dominated legislature to further privatization.
— from The 2000 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Any oblique path across these scales traces a regular sequence, each step combining change of hue with a change of value and chroma.
— from A Color Notation A measured color system, based on the three qualities Hue, Value and Chroma by A. H. (Albert Henry) Munsell

"The marks were there again," replied Sir Elwin; "rather lower on the neck.
— from Brood of the Witch-Queen by Sax Rohmer

The King of Spain was so stripped of troops and resources, so embarrassed by the Moors, that in ten months he would not be able to send one man to the Netherlands.
— from Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War — Complete (1609-15) by John Lothrop Motley