The reason why there was so much slaughtering done, was, that in a new mining district the rough element predominates, and a person is not respected until he has “killed his man.”
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

The people of Kôr ever embalmed their dead, as did the Egyptians, but their art was greater than the art of the Egyptians, for, whereas the Egyptians disembowelled and drew the brain, the people of Kôr injected fluid into the veins, and thus reached every part.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

"The reverse exhibits the arms of the Office of Ulster" corrected from "The reserve exhibits ..." Page 327.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Age 16—see tagore.jpg] To W. B. Yeats Thanks are due to the editor of Poetry, a Magazine of Verse , for permission to reprint eight poems in this volume.
— from The Gardener by Rabindranath Tagore

[91] If Great Britain were stripped of this right, every principle of unity and subordination in the empire was gone forever.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Nine years did I stay with them, and many beautiful works in bronze, brooches, spiral armlets, cups, and chains, did I make for them in their cave, with the roaring waters of Oceanus foaming as they rushed ever past it; and no one knew, neither of gods nor men, save only Thetis and Eurynome who took care of me.
— from The Iliad by Homer

The other four sons are the remaining elements, personified: whence the six races of Tatars.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Now when the king of the Ammonites had served those beyond Jordan in this manner, he led his army against those that were called Gileadites, and having pitched his camp at the metropolis of his enemies, which was the city of Jabesh, he sent ambassadors to them, commanding them either to deliver themselves up, on condition to have their right eyes plucked out, or to undergo a siege, and to have their cities overthrown.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

I have now published a little book, ( Galen’s Art of Physic ,) which will fully instruct you, not only in the knowledge of your own bodies, but also in fit medicines to remedy each part of it when afflicted; in the mean season take 1.
— 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

He determined to renominate every person against whom there was no complaint which would have warranted his removal.
— from Rise of the New West, 1819-1829 by Frederick Jackson Turner

Vs. 3-5.—The "scarlet-coloured beast" is the Roman empire professing the Christian religion, modelled by the Romish church; for the "woman sits upon the beast," guiding and controlling all its motions.
— from Notes on the Apocalypse by David Steele

But even when it has been reduced to the level of the others, there is no necessity, either in its case or in that of the others, to fall into the illusion that there really exist poets who are only tragic or only comic, only realistic or only classicistic, singers only of Harmony, without the other passions, or solely passionate without the passion for Harmony.
— from Ariosto, Shakespeare and Corneille by Benedetto Croce

Given these conditions, and allowing for the possibility of a mistake, the puzzle stood thus: R E P
— from The Blonde Lady Being a Record of the Duel of Wits between Arsène Lupin and the English Detective by Maurice Leblanc

All gardeners tell you that plants never do so well in jardinières as in the red earthen pots.
— from The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 59, December 23, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls by Various

[1] Ro is a universal language invented by the Rev. Edward P. Foster of Marietta, Ohio.
— from Inventing for Boys by A. Frederick (Archie Frederick) Collins

the intelligible, the dianoetic, and the sensible; and that in each of these ideas subsist, characterized by the respective essential properties of the natures by which they are contained.
— from Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato by Thomas Taylor

The choir of the Russian Evangelical Pentecostal Church sang the hymn, “He Arose From the Dead,” in Russian, and “He Lives” was sung by an Italian choir led by the Rev. D. Lisciandrello, pastor of Calvary Church, Brooklyn.
— from Hymn Stories of the Twentieth Century by William J. (William John) Hart

Sit down in that chair, and try to remember every point in your journey down the river Sarebus, for the information which you can give us will be of the utmost value.
— from With the Dyaks of Borneo: A Tale of the Head Hunters by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

Consequently, it is not in vain that laws are enacted, and that reproaches, exhortations, praises, and vituperations
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo