Some other choice food to serve as pokala (offerings) is also put in the gebobo, to be offered to overseas partners; on it, the rest of the trade, called pari , is piled, and right on top of all are the personal belongings of the usagelu and the toliwaga in their respective baskets, shaped like travelling bags.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Had he not been at this court, peradventure I had been her champion.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

Hence the covenant formed by eating together is less solemn and durable than the covenant formed by transfusing the blood of the covenanting parties into each other’s veins, for this transfusion seems to knit them together for life.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

It is a quality which calls out the most efficient services of the troops serving under the commander possessing it.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

The chief point is Nadyezhda Fyodorovna. . . .
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The country pixies inhabiting the highlands from above Newlyn on to St. Just were considered a wicked sort.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Prepesinthus, one of the Cyclades ( Polino ), ii. 208 .
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

the Canadian put in.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

I imagine that the first assailant was a tiger, and the case was at once known to be hopeless, the cry prompting instant flight, while in the second case the cry was for defense.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

5—Bagdad coffee pot with crow-bill spout Before the advent of the Elford machine, and indeed, for two centuries thereafter, it was the common practise in the home to roast coffee in uncovered earthenware tart dishes, old pudding pans, and fry pans.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

In this poem Burns nailed Calvinism to the cross, put it on the rack, subjected it to every instrument of torture, flayed it alive, burned it at the stake, and scattered its ashes to the winds.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

[342] When the gold medal, which was voted by resolution of Congress to Grant, after the campaign of Chattanooga, was finished, a committee from the two houses went down to City Point in a special steamer to present the elegant testimonial of the nation's gratitude to the illustrious soldier.
— from Our Standard-Bearer; Or, The Life of General Uysses S. Grant by Oliver Optic

To the native languages especially the inquirer into some of the curious problems involved in the peopling of this continent must look for a key to the mystery.
— from The Lost Atlantis and Other Ethnographic Studies by Wilson, Daniel, Sir

To be a common nuisance is bad enough; to be a common scold is worse, and presently she turns scold and goes about railing shrilly at a world that criminally persists in thinking of other topics than the one which lies closest to her heart and loosest on her tongue.
— from 'Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are!' by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

If one were minded to carry out the comparison properly, it is far more exact to liken the timid to these degenerate flowers, which are indebted to the shade in which they hide for their puny and abortive appearance.
— from Poise: How to Attain It by D. Starke

The course pursued in this school consists essentially in separating the pupils by means of a family school from all old associations and habits, and subjecting them for months and years to a strong and watchful discipline, in surrounding them with the most earnest and aggressive religious influences, in giving them the best mental training and furnishing which the time and facilities will allow, thus to stamp upon them new characteristics, and mould them so that they will represent and teach the best Christian culture and civilization.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 32, No. 03, March, 1878 by Various

Once, when the impulse of adventure was very strong in them, they went quite the length of the West Side lines, and saw the city pushing its way by irregular advances into the country.
— from A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete by William Dean Howells

There is also reason to believe that Count Pennazzi is already making his explorations in that country.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 36, No. 3, March, 1882 by Various

Mr. Evarts said: If the Court please, I shall hardly find it necessary, in stating the propositions of law for the Government, to consume as much time as has been, very usefully and very properly, employed by the various counsel for the prisoners in asking your attention to the views which they deem important and applicable in defence of their clients.
— from Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York by A. F. (Adolphus Frederick) Warburton

In either case the subjective mind is the one addressed; and that, being the central power in control of the functions and conditions of the body, accepts the suggestions and acts accordingly.
— from The Law of Psychic Phenomena A working hypothesis for the systematic study of hypnotism, spiritism, mental therapeutics, etc. by Thomson Jay Hudson