Timberlake thus describes the Cherokee warrior’s headdress in 1762: “The hair of their head is shaved, tho’ many of the old people have it plucked out by the roots, except a patch on the hinder part of the head about twice the bigness of a crown piece, which is ornamented with beads, feathers, wampum, stained deer’s hair, and such like baubles” (Memoirs, p. 49).
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Melchizedek the Jew, with a story of three rings, escapeth a parlous snare set for him by Saladin 28 The Fourth Story.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

eioai jqoraV. Note: The alloi were the religious enemies and persecutors of Nicephorus.—M.] H2 anchor Chapter LXIII:
— 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

[20] It may be said that even more divergent views of the reasonable end are possible here than in the case of happiness: for we are not necessarily limited (as in that case) to the consideration of sentient beings: inanimate things also seem to have a perfection and excellence of their own and to be capable of being made better or worse in their kind; and this perfection, or one species of it, appears to be the end of the Fine Arts.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

At present, if a city that has already revolted perceive that it cannot succeed, it will come to terms while it is still able to refund expenses, and pay tribute afterwards.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Raskolnikov sipped the glass, put a morsel of bread in his mouth and, suddenly looking at Zametov, seemed to remember everything and pulled himself together.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Now night came on, and the victors, partly from joy at their success, partly from fatigue, kept their watches somewhat more carelessly than usual; Hannibal escapes by night; and the Romans enter and plunder Agrigentum.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

They can work at any business they please; they can sell brand new goods if they want to; they can keep drug-stores; they can practice medicine among Christians; they can even shake hands with Christians if they choose; they can associate with them, just the same as one human being does with another human being; they don’t have to stay shut up in one corner of the towns; they can live in any part of a town they like best; it is said they even have the privilege of buying land and houses, and owning them themselves, though I doubt that, myself; they never have had to run races naked through the public streets, against jackasses, to please the people in carnival time; there they never have been driven by the soldiers into a church every Sunday for hundreds of years to hear themselves and their religion especially and particularly cursed; at this very day, in that curious country, a Jew is allowed to vote, hold office, yea, get up on a rostrum in the public street and express his opinion of the government if the government don’t suit him!
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

And in fairness it must be added that in the latter half there are touches of humour and humanity which make the reading easy and pleasant.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-18 by Various

Even in the writings of Cicero it is declared the duty of a citizen to resist Euhemerism as prejudicial to religious worship; and if the Academic and the Epicurean appear in his dialogues, the former has to plead the excuse that, while as a philosopher he is a disciple of Carneades, as a citizen and -pontifex- he is an orthodox confessor of the Capitoline Jupiter, and the Epicurean has even ultimately to surrender and be converted.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

As he had [Pg 227] not a sufficient quantity of goods, Mr. Kipp sent Charbonneau (who was likewise in the service of the Columbia Fur Company), in company with another man, to fetch a wagon-load from Lake Travers; but, on their return, encountering a party of Assiniboins, they were compelled to abandon their wagon, horses, and goods, and all was lost.
— from Maximilian, Prince of Wied's, Travels in the Interior of North America, 1832-1834, part 2 by Wied, Maximilian, Prinz von

As unavailing was the request of the Chargé upon Mr. Hayashi to induce the buyers to relinquish even a portion of the purchased lot.
— from The Russo-Japanese Conflict: Its Causes and Issues by Kan'ichi Asakawa

Page 71 CHAPTER IV THE NAVIES OF THE MIDDLE AGES: THE EASTERN EMPIRE The thousand years following the collapse of the Roman empire, a period generally referred to as the Middle Ages, are characterized by a series of barbarian invasions.
— from A History of Sea Power by William Oliver Stevens

The Spaniards began to pitch their tents amongst the rocky eminences, as preparing for some months’ encampment.
— from Home Scenes and Heart Studies by Grace Aguilar

To give an order, he uncovered himself for a moment, and an arrow entered by the right eye and pierced his brain.
— from The Story of Don John of Austria by Luis Coloma

[227] Some other reasons have been given in justification of polygamy, which I consider too absurd to require even a passing notice.
— from The Mormon Prophet and His Harem Or, An Authentic History of Brigham Young, His Numerous Wives and Children by C. V. (Catherine Van Valkenburg) Waite

With a word, she almost ran down the corridor in the direction of the rear elevators, and Preston, with a queer look on his face, came slowly toward me.
— from The Social Gangster by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve