These are the acts which make up the cult, and they obviously can consist only in movements by which the man imitates the animal with which he identifies himself.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

"Among dark pine woods, near the melancholy banks of the Stoxen, lies the old convent church of Wreta.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

he was met by an Indian with two mules on this side of the dividing ridge at the foot of the mountain, the Indian had the politeness to offer Capt. C. one of his mules to ride as he was on foot, which he accepted and gave the fellow a waistcoat as a reward for his politeness.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

She begs for them of careless crowd, Of earnest brows and narrow hearts, That when it hears her cry aloud, Turns like the ebb-tide and departs.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

The name of two or more places in the old Cherokee country; one about Currahee mountain in Habersham county, Georgia, the other on Cullowhee river, an upper branch of Tuckasegee, in Jackson county, North Carolina.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Most men of many groups learn, like tactful hosts, to invite at a given time only congenial companies of selves.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

The only complete category of our thinking, our professors of philosophy tell us, is the category of personality, every other category being one of the abstract elements of that.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

A foreign trade of consumption carried on with a neighbouring, is, upon that account, in general, more advantageous than one carried on with a distant country; and, for the same reason, a direct foreign trade of consumption, as it has likewise been shown in the second book, is in general more advantageous than a round-about one.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Such rigid justice—for so he termed it—was, in the opinion of Severus, the only conduct capable of insuring peace to the people or stability to the prince; and he condescended slightly to lament, that to be mild, it was necessary that he should first be cruel.
— 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

—Ellis, Puritan Age and Rule ; E. Byington, Puritans in England and New England , and Puritan as Colonist and Reformer ; D. Campbell, Puritan in Holland, England, and America ; M. Dexter, Story of the Pilgrims ; J. Brown, Pilgrim Fathers ; W. Cockshott, Pilgrim Fathers ; F. Noble, Pilgrims ; J. Goodwin, Pilgrim Republic ; D. Howe, Puritan Republic .—Massachusetts: W. Northend, Bay Colony ; B. Adams, Emancipation of Massachusetts ; C. F. Adams, Three Episodes of Massachusetts History ; Winsor, Memorial History of Boston ; H. Lodge, Boston .—Connecticut: C. Levermore, Republic of New Haven ; E. Atwater, New Haven Colony ; Andrews, River Towns of Connecticut ; C. Orr, Pequot War ; state histories by Johnston (Commonwealths), [Pg 113] Trumbull, and Morgan.—Rhode Island: I. Richman, Rhode Island: its Making and its Meaning ; Arnold, Field, and Richman (Commonwealths).—New Hampshire: Belknap and Sanborn (Commonwealths).—Maine: Williamson.
— from The Colonies, 1492-1750 by Reuben Gold Thwaites

The two are in harmony with the constitution of his system, and their observance can conduce only toward his highest health and consequent happiness.
— from Insanity: Its Causes and Prevention by Henry Putnam Stearns

The other cases can only be inferred from the position of the words.
— from The Lushei Kuki Clans by John Shakespear

This is virtually the condition to which the mind must come at last when we try to trace back the chain of causes and effects, but both Science and Religion jump to this condition of blankness much more quickly than is necessary, for they ignore the metaphysical abstractions which are the only conceivable causes of physical concretions.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

He led away his wife; then others came crying out, "The enemy has advanced to the lower part of the gardens, upon the glacis."
— from The Blockade of Phalsburg: An Episode of the End of the Empire by Erckmann-Chatrian

The Owens College Course of Practical Organic Chemistry.
— from A Valiant Ignorance; vol. 3 of 3 A Novel in Three Volumes by Mary Angela Dickens

The secular productions of Tallis, Byrd, and Gibbons, together with those of contemporary composers of inferior note, are, for the most part, now forgotten; but the sacred music of these three masters still forms a part of every collection of church music.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various

The old chief called out and soon the squaws commenced bringing in a few pounds each of good dried meat.
— from Forty Years Among the Indians A true yet thrilling narrative of the author's experiences among the natives by Daniel W. (Daniel Webster) Jones

The body was conveyed under the escort of the General himself and a chosen guard to Aberdeen, where, with all the honours that the time permitted, it was laid in what is now known as the Gordons' aisle in the old cathedral church of St. Machar.
— from Montrose by Mowbray Morris