The Stiêns have neither priests nor temples, yet they recognise the existence of a supreme being, to whom they refer everything good or evil; they call him “Brâ,” and invoke him in all cases.
— from Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos (Vol. 1 of 2) During the Years 1858, 1859, and 1860 by Henri Mouhot

But sins may bee pardoned to the repentant, either Gratis, or upon such penalty, as God is pleased to accept.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

It dissolves the inward congealed blood happening by falls or bruises, and the spitting of blood, if the roots, either green or dry, be boiled in wine and drank; as also all manner of inward wounds or outward, if washed or bathed therewith.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

4372 The Roman emperor, grandson of Livia, the wife of Augustus.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

A river, amber-tinted in the shadow of its banks, purled at the army's feet; and at night, when the stream had become of a sorrowful blackness, one could see across it the red, eyelike gleam of hostile camp-fires set in the low brows of distant hills.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane

Note: If Justus Lipsius has exaggerated the revenue of the Roman empire Gibbon, on the other hand, has underrated it.
— 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

The driving force behind the rapid economic growth of the 1970s and 1980s has been the mining industry.
— from The 1991 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The Romans enjoyed games of chance.
— from Outlines of Universal History, Designed as a Text-book and for Private Reading by George Park Fisher

They represent every grade of intelligence, every stratum of social and economic life, and it is extremely difficult to bring them together for instructional purposes.
— from Wage Earning and Education by R. R. (Rufus Rolla) Lutz

Together they run along the rostral edge, giving out through each orifice a little disc of brownish cement, and finally they enter the larval antennæ.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 1 of 2) The Lepadidae; Or, Pedunculated Cirripedes by Charles Darwin

Their gaunt frames and supple limbs betokened a life of activity and endurance, and their restless eyes gleamed over the fire with all the quick suspicion of the savage.
— from The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis, Sir

We youngsters, with our light hearts and lighter pockets, used to rather enjoy getting old Plodder started, it must be confessed; and when pin-pool or auction-pitch had palled in interest, and we would be casting about for some time-killing device, and the word would come from the window, scattering the group of oldsters, that Plodder was on his way to the store, somebody would be apt to suggest a project for "putting up a job on Grumpy," and it would be carried nem.
— from Campaigning with Crook, and Stories of Army Life by Charles King

The space in front of Notre Dame was at one time the scene of as many executions as the Place de Grève, which afterwards became and for some centuries remained the recognised execution ground of the French capital.
— from Old and New Paris: Its History, Its People, and Its Places, v. 1 by H. Sutherland (Henry Sutherland) Edwards

The first prince of the House of Bourbon has been obliged to give himself up entirely to the new system, and to pretend even to propagate it with all zeal: at least, that club of intriguers who assemble at the Feuillants, and whose cabinet meets at Madame de Staël's, and makes and directs all the ministers, is the real executive government of France.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

While the purposes and objects of instruction in this rather extensive group of subjects vary considerably, it seems desirable to analyze the chief objects in accordance with which political science courses are presented to students of collegiate grade.
— from College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Paul Klapper