It is quite consistent with this that the pig should have been held to be an embodiment of the divine Adonis, and the analogies of Dionysus and Demeter make it probable that the story of the hostility of the animal to the god was only a late misapprehension of the old view of the god as embodied in a pig.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

And with the same grave countenance he hurried through his breakfast and drove to the police station, whither the body had been carried.
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

"You do not mean to say," I cried, "that we have captured a live specimen of a fish belonging to the primitive stock that existed before the deluge?"
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

Upon the foot of all these observations I must say that though Providence seemed to direct my conduct to be otherwise, yet it is my opinion, and I must leave it as a prescription, viz., that the best physic against the plague is to run away from it.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

Esti de kai touto thaumaston ti tês physeôs sophisma, to zôntos men tou kyêmatos akribôs pany memykenai to stoma tôn mêtrôn, apothanontos de parachrêma dianoigesthai tosouton, hoson eis tên exodon autou diapherei.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

This Greek Concordance obviates the necessity for an exhaustive citation of the passages containing any particular Greek word, and brings us back to the proper sphere of a Lexicon, as a book defining the words contained in the language, with occasional references to passages which illustrate the different meanings; and when equipped with Hudson's Concordance, a manual lexicon of New Testament Greek serves the purpose of the ordinary student.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

Perhaps it might be owing to the pleasing serenity that reigned in my own mind that I fancied I saw cheerfulness in every countenance throughout the journey.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

In the year 1656, a little volume was published, by J[ohn] B[ulloker,] entitled “Ovid’s Metamorphosis, translated grammatically, and, according to the propriety of our English tongue, so far as grammar and the verse will bear, written chiefly for the use of schools, to be used according to the directions in the preface to the painfull schoolmaster, and more fully in the book called, ‘Ludus Literarius, or the Grammar school, chap.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

It was this feature, we believe, that was supposed to give to the place something of a monastic air; to entitle it even to the name of "Abbey."
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

She turned the power switch off and then back on.
— from Terminal Compromise by Winn Schwartau

She had intended to ask Seagreave for the use of his private parlor among the pines, intimating that she desired to retire thither to practice some new steps, and, lo!
— from The Black Pearl by Woodrow, Wilson, Mrs.

'He is at the garden, sir, for Richard and the women quarrelled about the money that they took, and at last one of them told Mr. Freeman of the tricks they played, so Richard and some of the women were discharged, and the rest had such a lecturing that I don't believe there is now a creature in the garden would dare to take so much as a gooseberry from it, but my husband is there a good deal to look after them, for Mr. Freeman says he shall not trust them too far.'
— from Forgotten Tales of Long Ago by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas

To distinguish the various acceptations of the word, there must be joined to the phonetic sign pa (derived from a word the proper sense of which has long been obliterated) the key of plants, or that of iron, of diseases, of the mouth, according to the sense which it is desired to give to it.
— from The Races of Man: An Outline of Anthropology and Ethnography by Joseph Deniker

Will you tell him it may perhaps be as well to put a short note to that part relating to Clarens , merely to say, that of course the description does not refer to that particular spot so much as to the command of scenery round it?
— from Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore

He may be permitted to assure her that "my ears are stone-dead to this idle buzz, and my flesh as insensible as iron to these petty stings," and to accompany his assurance with a reasoned statement of the grounds of his unshaken hopes.
— from Wordsworth by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers

With regard to tricks, the player should make every effort possible to secure the knave trick, which scores twenty, and the ace trick and the five trick, which score fifteen each.
— from Cassell's Book of In-door Amusements, Card Games, and Fireside Fun by Various