As we know, this relationship is economically defined by the regular and substantial harvest gifts, by which the husband’s storehouse is filled every year by his wife’s brothers.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

When two armies, two different battles pressed on the Etrurians, now surrounded, in front and rear, and there was now no means of flight back to their camp, nor to the mountains, where new enemies were ready to oppose them, and the horses, now freed from their bridles, had scattered their riders in every direction, the principal part of the Veientians make precipitately for the Tiber.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

Charcoal burned in open vessels in tight rooms is especially dangerous.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

Not only did they not deign to take the slightest precaution to give the proper direction to small detachments or scattered men, and fail to adopt any signals to facilitate the rallying in each division of the fractions which may be scattered in a momentary panic or in an irresistible charge of the enemy, but they were offended that any one should think of proposing such precautions.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

Neither the thought nor the activity of the religion is evenly distributed among the believers; according to the men, the environment and the circumstances, the beliefs as well as the rites are thought of in different ways.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

We at once set to work to destroy an arsenal, immense storehouses, and the railroad in every direction.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

OYSTERS I NEED no great effort of memory to recall, in every detail, the rainy autumn evening when I stood with my father in one of the more frequented streets of Moscow, and felt that I was gradually being overcome by a strange illness.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

July is the worst and Winter Season of this Coast, the Trade Winds being then very strong and dead, bringing in a prodigious and unsafe Swell into the Road, intermixed every Day with Squalls, Rain, and a hazey Horizon, but at other times serener Skies and Sunshine.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

I found my Friend begin to rave, and insensibly led him towards the House, that we might be joined by some other Company; and am convinced that the Widow is the secret Cause of all that Inconsistency which appears in some Parts of my Friend's Discourse; tho' he has so much Command of himself as not directly to mention her, yet according to that of Martial , which one knows not how to render in English, Dum facet hanc loquitur .
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

2 for crowds to run in every direction.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

They commenced firing, and you could hear them running in every direction.
— from The Dispatch Carrier and Memoirs of Andersonville Prison by William N. (William Nelson) Tyler

It came to the conclusion that (1) the proposed introduction into Savings Banks of a Government treasurer, &c. , must lead to great confusion, and eventually to the disruption of these valuable institutions; (2) that the proposed reduction of the existing rates of interest and the limit in the amount of deposits will, besides imposing injurious restrictions on depositors, so diminish the means of defraying the expenses of management as to render it extremely difficult in some, and impossible in other cases, to engage efficient assistance; (3) that any further reduction of the rate of interest to depositors would only tempt them to withdraw their money from Savings Banks and place it in more attractive, but frequently hazardous investments; [90] (4) that the grand principle on [Pg 149] which well-conducted Savings Banks have hitherto been so efficiently managed, viz. , that of having the constant superintendence of gentlemen unconnected with the receipt or payment of money, will be destroyed if the new bill should be passed into a law.
— from A History of Banks for Savings in Great Britain and Ireland by William Lewins

It is sad to learn that Jeremy Taylor, who, when under persecution, had eloquently defended liberty of prophesying, as a bishop of the restored Irish establishment defended that liberty no more.
— from Irish History and the Irish Question by Goldwin Smith

" I found my friend begin to rave, and insensibly led him towards the house, that we might be joined by some other company; and am convinced that the widow is the secret cause of all that inconsistency which appears in some parts of my friend's discourse; tho' he has so much command of himself as not directly to mention her, yet according to that of Martial, which one knows not how to render into English, DUM TACET HANC LOQUITUR.
— from Days with Sir Roger De Coverley by Steele, Richard, Sir

below my guide and maney other Indians tell me that the Mountains Close and is a perpendicular Clift on each Side, and Continues for a great distance and that the water runs with great violence from one rock to the other on each Side foaming & roreing thro rocks in every direction, So as to render the passage of any thing impossible.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Matilda knelt and put her lips to that black slab (which she safely might do, for it was kept clear of all dirt and dust, it being the sole occupation of one of the lay brothers of our house to rub it every day and keep it clean), and she said an orison, of the shortest, and made some show of shedding tears; but then she quickly rose, and would have gone forth from the vault or cappella.
— from A Legend of Reading Abbey by Charles MacFarlane

"There's a thousand rounds in each drum," snapped Scorio, "but they last only a minute, so do your firing in bursts."
— from Empire by Clifford D. Simak

In its primary and immediate aspect the Teleological relation is external design, and the notion confronts a pre-supposed object.
— from The Logic of Hegel by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel