These examples therefore suggest that the Death whose demolition is represented in these ceremonies cannot be regarded as the purely destructive agent which we understand by Death.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

This was sufficient to fling the whole pack forward, pell-mell, crowded together, blocked and confused by its eagerness to pull down the prey.
— from The Call of the Wild by Jack London

The trouble is that on the one hand these passages do not end with the reign of Alexander Severus, where Dio manifestly ended his history, but continue down to Constantine and (since the manuscript has lost some sheets at the close) possibly much farther: and on the other hand the style and diction differ considerably from Dio's own.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

(α) The pleroma dwells wholly in Christ and is communicated through Him (ii. 9, 10).
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

It arrived with a stealthy step before the Presidency door.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

This misery of the poor I had many occasions to be an eyewitness of, and sometimes also of the charitable assistance that some pious people daily gave to such, sending them relief and supplies both of food, physic, and other help, as they found they wanted; and indeed it is a debt of justice due to the temper of the people of that day to take notice here, that not only great sums, very great sums of money were charitably sent to the Lord Mayor and aldermen for the assistance and support of the poor distempered people, but abundance of private people daily distributed large sums of money for their relief, and sent people about to inquire into the condition of particular distressed and visited families, and relieved them; nay, some pious ladies were so transported with zeal in so good a work, and so confident in the protection of Providence in discharge of the great duty of charity, that they went about in person distributing alms to the poor, and even visiting poor families, though sick and infected, in their very houses, appointing nurses to attend those that wanted attending, and ordering apothecaries and surgeons, the first to supply them with drugs or plasters, and such things as they wanted; and the last to lance and dress the swellings and tumours, where such were wanting; giving their blessing to the poor in substantial relief to them, as well as hearty prayers for them.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

After the Pulajan descent on Llorente, the people of Llorente all went off to the hills to the Pulajans for safety.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Kabunsuan is supposed to be descended from Mohammed through his Arab father, Ali, and so the datos of Maguindanao to the present day proudly believe that in their veins flows the blood of the Prophet.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

It alludes to the punishment due to him for his parricide.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

This prejudice survives in India to the present day with unabated force.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

This point decided, I gathered a quantity of fuel, and soon a blazing fire sent its cheerful glow around me, making the gloom beyond the circle of its rays still more impenetrable.
— from The Young Dragoon: Every Day Life of a Soldier by Alfred W. (Alfred Wilks) Drayson

Nearly all the individual works in the collection are in the public domain in the United States.
— from The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by John William Burgon

The village was Poix, and if one had to be wrecked anywhere, I cannot think of a lovelier spot for disaster than Poix de la Somme.
— from The Car That Went Abroad: Motoring Through the Golden Age by Albert Bigelow Paine

At last he heard the cocks crow, to his great comfort; he alighted off his horse, and falling to prayer desired God’s assistance, and so got safe home.”
— from Irish Witchcraft and Demonology by St. John D. (St. John Drelincourt) Seymour

Keith laid the paper down on his knee and went off in a revery.
— from Gordon Keith by Thomas Nelson Page

How many times on returning to the Palazzetto Doria had she found Catherine Steno in the library, seated on the divan beside Boleslas, and she had not mistrusted that the woman had come, during her absence, to embrace that man, to talk to him of love, to give herself to him, without doubt, with the charm of villainy and of danger!
— from Cosmopolis — Complete by Paul Bourget

The collection should contain the most characteristic and favourite songs used at the present day in public worship and in family devotion.
— from Musical Myths and Facts, Volume 1 (of 2) by Carl Engel

In most Fishes the primitive dermal scutes have become subdermal membrane bones, and the infra-clavicle is usually not distinct, but the two clavicles form the most important part of the membranous elements of the girdle.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 3 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Vertebrata by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

And this mention of the stripping away of secular powers leads us to ask, Were the original vestries, which Professor Maitland deemed purely ecclesiastical, so entirely restricted to church matters as at the present day?
— from Byways in British Archaeology by Walter Johnson