On the third day, after the usual procession, the temporary king gave orders that the elephants should trample under foot the “mountain of rice,” which was a scaffold of bamboo surrounded by sheaves of rice.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

This the Egyptians say that they know for a certainty, since they always kept a reckoning and wrote down the years as they came.
— from An Account of Egypt by Herodotus

In his answer, the king began with showing how Harald Harfager had appropriated to himself all udal rights in Orkney, and that the earls, since that time, have constantly held the country as a fief, not as their udal property.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

About Heracles I heard the account given that he was of the number of the twelve gods; but of the other Heracles whom the Hellenes know I was not able to hear in any part of Egypt: and moreover to prove that the Egyptians did not take the name of Heracles from the Hellenes, but rather the Hellenes from the Egyptians,—that is to say those of the Hellenes who gave the name Heracles to the son of Amphitryon,—of that, I say, besides many other evidences there is chiefly this, namely that the parents of this Heracles, Amphitryon and Alcmene, were both of Egypt by descent, and also that the Egyptians say that they do not know the names either of Poseidon or of the Dioscuroi, nor have these been accepted by them as gods among the other gods; whereas if they had received from the Hellenes the name of any divinity, they would naturally have preserved the memory of these most of all, assuming that in those times as now some of the Hellenes were wont to make voyages and were seafaring folk, as I suppose and as my judgment compels me to think; so that the Egyptians would have learnt the names of these gods even more than that of Heracles.
— from An Account of Egypt by Herodotus

Tangere , saying that the excerpts submitted to him by the censor had awakened a desire to read the entire work.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

Alternate sleep was strictly to them enjoined, since to the watch they were appointed.
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

It was at this last post that the Emperor said to his guide, Lacoste, a hostile and terrified peasant, who was attached to the saddle of a hussar, and who turned round at every discharge of canister and tried to hide behind Napoleon: “Fool, it is shameful!
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Su to tikton ephus, Su to tiktomenon; Su to photizon, Su to lampomenon; Su to phainomenon, Su to kryptomenon Idiais augais.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

At the same time the evidence shows that they were papers executed by these several parties at the time of or in pursuance of the agreement of the division.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Legal by Robert Green Ingersoll

An infant does not even begin to reach definitely for things that the eye sees till he is several months old, and even then several weeks' practice is required before he learns the adjustment so as neither to overreach nor to underreach.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

And inasmuch as there are people who consider themselves ill-used, unless one tells them everything, straitened though I am for space, I will glance at this transaction.
— from Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

I feel entirely indebted to you for this thing ever seeing the light."
— from The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss by George Lewis Prentiss

Dora had been coming out into the courtyard from time to time, ever since the siege had begun in earnest.
— from 'Neath the Hoof of the Tartar; Or, The Scourge of God by Jósika, Miklós, báró

Although, for example, the attitude she assumed in regard to the use of wine at the White House entertainments was a radical departure from precedent and evoked the antagonism of many of her friends and admirers, she believed herself to be right and successfully persevered in her course to the end; so that William M. Evarts, Hayes's Secretary of State, kept pretty close to the truth when he asserted years thereafter that "during the Hayes administration water flowed at the White House like champagne!"
— from As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century by Marian Gouverneur

At the meeting referred to, the employers said that as the Board had asserted that the state of trade did not warrant a reduction, but, on the contrary, an advance, they would officially ascertain present and prospective invoice prices, and would then ask the Board to meet and consider them.
— from A History of the Durham Miner's Association 1870-1904 by John Wilson

When necessary to advance, to retreat, to turn to either side, to strike, or to forbear, the governor or conductor of the elephant sitting on his back, causes him to do whatever he wills, by speaking in such language and expressions as he is accustomed to, all of which the beast understands and obeys, without the use of bridle or spur.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 by Robert Kerr