When the vines of my village are nipped with the frost, my parish priest presently concludes, that the indignation of God has gone out against all the human race, and that the cannibals have already got the pip.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

sunda 2 = sáyud , n, v3. sundalísa n a letter sent by a boy’s parents requesting an audience with a girl’s parents for the formal marriage proposal ( pamaláyi ).
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

But this had not been entirely unforeseen, for when the steamer reached Singapore, Rizal’s companion on board, the Filipino millionaire Pedro P. Roxas, had deserted the ship, urging the ex-exile to follow his example.
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

Thus in the involved language of Dr. George Martin himself: The Ordre Maçonnique Mixte Internationale is the first mixed, philosophic, progressive, and philanthropic Masonic Power to be organized and constituted in the world, placed above all the prooccupations of the philosophical or religious ideas which may be professed by those who ask to become members....
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

One might imagine that the negative cult, at least, would be more sharply separated from the positive cult; yet we have seen that the former may produce positive effects, identical with those produced by the latter.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

I might mention many instances of a similar kind, not only in his account of this period, but throughout his whole work; but I think for my present purpose enough has been said.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

He would no doubt have been tried for misappropriating public property, if not for treason, had he been captured.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

They say: "The five most prominent practical principles of the Pentecost Church were, first, common property; second, a life of celibacy; third, non-resistance; fourth, a separate and distinct government; and, fifth, power over physical disease."
— from The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation by Charles Nordhoff

Even her words, when she spoke to me alone, were of a kind to feed my prevailing passion.
— from Confession; Or, The Blind Heart. A Domestic Story by William Gilmore Simms

There was one dilapidated wretch to carry the camera, another the box with the plates, and yet a third bore the black cloth I would put over my head to focus my pictures properly.
— from A Woman In China by Mary Gaunt

Yesterday in Ireland , I think, for my present purpose comes to define itself as the period between the famine of 1847 and the famine of 1879—between the downfall of O'Connell and Parnell's coming to power.
— from Irish Books and Irish People by Stephen Lucius Gwynn

Here with the prisoners They keep her, in these huts, among the hordes Of numbered slaves.—The host whose labouring swords Won her, have given her up to me, to fill My pleasure; perchance kill her, or not kill, But lead her home.—Methinks I have foregone The slaying of Helen here in Ilion….
— from The Trojan women of Euripides by Euripides

There are more than five million peasant proprietors in France, while the United Kingdom is owned by about 200,000 persons.
— from The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. by Various

So they being in the Pond, and the water nothing troubled by their being there, they found much pretty pastime together, running after the Fishes, to catch them with their hands, but they were over-quicke and cunning for them.
— from The Decameron (Day 6 to Day 10) Containing an hundred pleasant Novels by Giovanni Boccaccio

“I say,” he exclaimed, “why are you doing all this for me, Pritchard?” Pritchard laughed.
— from The Tempting of Tavernake by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim