In [ 149 ] the end, everyone really believed his party would go at least to the Easternmost Marshall Bennetts (Gawa), whereas, as events turned out, they did not sail beyond Kitava.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

H2 anchor CHAPTER VIII——OF IDLENESS As we see some grounds that have long lain idle and untilled, when grown rich and fertile by rest, to abound with and spend their virtue in the product of innumerable sorts of weeds and wild herbs that are unprofitable, and that to make them perform their true office, we are to cultivate and prepare them for such seeds as are proper for our service; and as we see women that, without knowledge of man, do sometimes of themselves bring forth inanimate and formless lumps of flesh, but that to cause a natural and perfect generation they are to be husbanded with another kind of seed: even so it is with minds, which if not applied to some certain study that may fix and restrain them, run into a thousand extravagances, eternally roving here and there in the vague expanse of the imagination— “Sicut aqua tremulum labris ubi lumen ahenis, Sole repercussum, aut radiantis imagine lunae, Omnia pervolitat late loca; jamque sub auras Erigitur, summique ferit laquearia tecti.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Note 2 ( return ) [ This may be a true observation of Josephus's, that Samuel by command from God entailed the crown on David and his posterity; for no further did that entail ever reach, Solomon himself having never had any promise made him that his posterity should always have the right to it.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Their earliest European relations were with the Dutch and Swedes.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Early in the evening, everybody retired into his or her house, the outside fires were extinguished and when I walked through the village, it was quite deserted and except for a few old men specially keeping watch, no one was to be seen.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Emily was, at this time, too much affected to employ either remonstrance, or entreaty on this topic; and when, at length, she attempted the latter, her emotion overcame her speech, and she retired to her apartment, to think, if in the present state of her mind to think was possible, upon this sudden and overwhelming subject.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

—¿Úsase todavía en el Río de la Plata el arado de madera, tirado por bueyes?
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

One of Klopstock’s remarkable psalms begins: “Moons wander round the earth, earths round suns, the whole host of suns wander round a greater sun, Our Father, that art thou.”
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

His eldest son, Andronicus, the regent of Constantinople, was repeatedly urged to exhaust every resource; and even by stripping the churches, to extricate his father from captivity and disgrace.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

"You see, Bill, Lacville is the sort of place where everyone thinks everyone else rather queer!
— from The Chink in the Armour by Marie Belloc Lowndes

Those cards are made out to Fred Berger, William Colman, Tom Ellis, Edward Raymond, Peter Viberts, and Chas.
— from The Everett Massacre: A history of the class struggle in the lumber industry by Walker C. Smith

[Pg 126] ENC, while the end C remains attached; and the part bc by the evolute of the portion b E while the end E remains attached.
— from Treatise on Light In which are explained the causes of that which occurs in reflexion, & in refraction and particularly in the strange refraction of Iceland crystal by Christiaan Huygens

What with the transport and other difficulties that arose, it was not for three months after the outbreak of hostilities that the Russian troops in the Ear East received reinforcements.
— from The Rise of Rail-Power in War and Conquest, 1833-1914 by Edwin A. Pratt

The pontiff himself delighted in female society, but, in his weakness, permitted his lady, the Countess of Turenne, to extort enormous revenues by the sale of ecclesiastical promotions.
— from History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume II (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper

All other things, whether birds or fishes, that they have, except such as are accounted sacred, they eat either roasted or boiled.
— from The Boys' and Girls' Herodotus Being Parts of the History of Herodotus, Edited for Boys and Girls by Herodotus

Morals were comparatively pure; there was a respect for religion; a frequent attendance on public worship; a deep attachment to their ancestral faith; a disposition to endure everything rather than deny it; and affection and esteem for their pastors.
— from The Vaudois of Piedmont: A Visit to Their Valleys by J. N. (John Napper) Worsfold

But when exaggerated, or where a fresh, cheerful character is to be preserved in the composition, this aid to expression easily renders the effect sentimental.
— from The Voice in Singing by Emma Seiler

Here is a grave difficulty that every exclusive rationalist encounters, and which is and can be removed only by faith.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various