It is said her sepulcher is still extant near Petra, the old capital city of Arabia Petraea, at this day;
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

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

In the meanwhile the monk comes, and from the gate of the outer court cries out aloud, Fresh wine, fresh wine, Gymnast my friend!
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

The ordinary crest coronet or, as it is usually termed in British heraldry, the "ducal coronet" (Ulster, however, describes it officially as "a ducal crest coronet"), is quite a separate matter from a duke's coronet of rank.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

In the other case certain objects are deposited upon it, into which the evil spirits are ceremoniously invited to enter, in which case it must obviously be got rid of after the ceremony, and is therefore hung up in the jungle, or set adrift in the sea or the nearest river; in the latter case it is called the “keeled sacrifice-tray” ( anchak pĕlunas ), and falls into line with other objects which are occasionally set adrift for the same purpose.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Pestsov insisted that one country can only absorb another when it is the more densely populated.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

If this house were intended for your own use, you would doubtless consider among other important matters those of comfort, convenience of arrangement, attractiveness of appearance, strength, and durableness.
— from Farm Boys and Girls by William A. (William Arch) McKeever

Bravely she smiled and looked into my eyes; Laughed at their troubled, stern, foreboding pain; Gaily she mocked the menace of the skies, Turned to our cheery cabin once again, Saying: "'Twill soon be over, dearest one, The long, long night: then O the sun, the sun!" VI God made a heart of gold, of gold, Shining and sweet and true; Gave it a home of fairest mould, Blest it, and called it — You.
— from Rhymes of a Rolling Stone by Robert W. (Robert William) Service

In all these respects Bruno transforms the orthodox Cusanus’ conception of a created and finite world; although nowhere perhaps has the idea of a creation been more skilfully woven into a profound philosophical system than in the Cardinal’s quaint dialogues.
— from Giordano Bruno by J. Lewis (James Lewis) McIntyre

"'You will not see much,' the old clergyman called out after me; 'for, as you see, the wooden shutters are kept closed during the week, and it is almost total darkness inside.'"
— from Lewie; Or, The Bended Twig by Sarah H. (Sarah Hopkins) Bradford

In a few minutes the old cabman came out again, and the cab jogged away back to the station.
— from The Girls of Chequertrees by Marion St. John Webb

But the oldest civilized country of Asia—India—can likewise be shown to claim the same descent.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

The other class consists of artistic and intellectual work which cannot be successfully undertaken by machinery.
— from The Evolution of Modern Capitalism: A Study of Machine Production by J. A. (John Atkinson) Hobson