If sickness attacks them again, they are sure it is not the same sickness, but a different one, which in due time they dismiss in the same manner.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

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— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Though he looked the phantom through and through, and saw it standing before him; though he felt the chilling influence of its death-cold eyes; and marked the very texture of the folded kerchief bound about its head and chin, which wrapper he had not observed before; he was still incredulous, and fought against his senses.
— from A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens

Since, then, all things are sought for the sake of the good, it is not these so much as good itself that is sought by all.
— from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

I concluded that I might find some amusement with them, as they all spoke French with that easy tone of good society which is so attractive, and I felt that I should be inclined to stay without much pressing, for that day at all events.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

These people of Chemmis say that Perseus is wont often to appear in their land and often within the temple, and that a sandal which has been worn by him is found sometimes, being in length two cubits, and whenever this appears all Egypt prospers.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

but yesterday he despatched a woman to me at home with his idle tales and toys and sent me a purse and a girdle, as if I had not purses and girdles galore; the which I took and take so ill that I believe, but for my having regard to the sin of it and after for the love of you, I had played the devil.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

He went out at the high priest John's monument, and uttered many other insolent things to the Romans, and challenged the best of them all to a single combat.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

We got one apiece early, and they stuck to us; but Joan was richer in this matter, for, as time went on, she earned a second, and then a third, and so on, and we gave them to her.
— from Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1 by Mark Twain

Of course, he had heard by that time just why Truscott had resigned and refused to re-accept the position; he also knew that the colonel had said that he could give it to no officer who had not served with them in the rough days in Arizona; and, moreover, that he had once declared that offering the adjutancy to a second lieutenant was equivalent to saying that no first lieutenant was capable of performing the duties.
— from Marion's Faith. by Charles King

John Quincy Adams has written for years to his two sons, boys of ten and twelve, a series of letters, in which he pursues a plan more extensive than yours; but agreeing in most of the essential points.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 6 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

Was it his duty to spring upon Bob, then and there, and “show him up” before the world?
— from Nothing But the Truth by Frederic Stewart Isham

There was, as Sheelah said, “plenty of cake, and wine, and tea, and tobacco, and snuff—every thing handsome as possible, and honourable to the deceased, who was always open-handed and open-hearted, and with open house too.”
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 09 by Maria Edgeworth

They had now come to the gates of Trinity Church, and they saw a little stream of men and women pouring in to attend the afternoon service.
— from Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color by Brander Matthews

It gave me a strange feeling of wonder to hear this illiterate native of a wet rock in the Atlantic telling a story that is so full of European associations.
— from The Aran Islands by J. M. (John Millington) Synge