In Mingrelia, when the crops are suffering from want of rain, they take a particularly holy image and dip it in water every day till a shower falls; and in the Far East the Shans drench the images of Buddha with water when the rice is perishing of drought.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

While the latter was being secured, three or four of the officers started up the road in pursuit of Dawes, who galloped his horse furiously up to a farm house, where he reined in so suddenly that he was thrown to the ground.
— from The Battle of April 19, 1775 in Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Arlington, Cambridge, Somerville and Charlestown, Massachusetts by Frank Warren Coburn

To nearly one hundred thousand troops of the line, were added eighty thousand and upwards of militia, which scarce yielded to the regulars in point of discipline.
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume III. by Walter Scott

According as its temperature rises, its power of dissolving (so to speak) water increases also, and so it is constantly increasing its burden of water until it reaches the end of its journey, where it rises into the higher regions of the atmosphere, and there is suddenly cooled.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

And on being asked to account for the vast difference between the rents paid in the county Down and his valuation, in answer to the question—"You have stated that the rental in parts of Down is fifty per cent higher than your valuation : is it your opinion that rents in that county are high according to the ability of the people to pay them?"
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 by Various

She looked forward to the happiness of hanging a new hat upon the rack in place of dear Will's shabby one, and of supplying a pair of slippers.
— from Southern Hearts by Florence Hull Winterburn

Given the side and the radius of a regular inscribed polygon, to find the side of the regular inscribed polygon of double the number of sides.
— from The Teaching of Geometry by David Eugene Smith