The multitude of rival claims so bewildered the unhappy parents that, after concealing a great part of their riches in various places, they disappeared and have never since been seen.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

The spirit of revolt, which had formerly disturbed the age of Gallienus, was revived by the capricious violence of the soldiers; and the unfortunate, perhaps the ambitious, candidates, who were the objects of their choice, were the instruments, and at length the victims, of their passion.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

With this understanding of their meaning, let us proceed to a collation of these legends.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

Mutapi (matapi) ang úlu sa bátà ug pirmi takildun, A child gets an irregularly-shaped head if he is put down on his side.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Mangadyì kitag Mitúu Aku, Let us pray the Apostles’ Creed.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

In this method the cherries are sometimes thrown into tanks full of water to soak about twenty-four hours, so as to soften the outer skins and underlying pulp to a condition that will make them easily removable by the pulping machine—the idea being to rub away the pulp by friction without crushing the beans.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

[78] During the Roman occupation large embankments had been built, and during the Middle Ages these had been kept up partly through a commission appointed by the Crown, and partly through the efforts of [lx] the monasteries at Ramsey and Crowland.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

Let us proceed to another class of laws, beginning with their foundation in religion.
— from Laws by Plato

It was demonstrated upon paper, that a certain number of chickens, ate but a given quantity of corn-meal.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVI, No. 2, February 1850 by Various

And while Rose turned away to a far window to hide an almost hysterical inclination to laugh, Mrs. Fleming opened her bag, took out a treasured paper, and read with the emphasis and the unction peculiar to a certain type of revivalism— '"Poor sinner!
— from Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

On this upper part there are churches and other considerable buildings, of which the town has many of different 216 kinds; and the highly favourable situation, in the centre of the trade of the Mississippi, Ohio, and Missouri, will soon make it one of the most important places in the west.
— from Maximilian, Prince of Wied's, Travels in the Interior of North America, 1832-1834, part 1 by Wied, Maximilian, Prinz von

It was true:—Pluto [ Pg 118] had seen Proserpine while she was gathering flowers in the wood, had snatched her up into his chariot with black horses, and, in spite of her struggles and cries for help, had driven off with her to his underground palace through a cavern which he opened with a touch of his two-pronged scepter: the cavern then filled up with water, and became the lake of Cyane, at the bottom of which Ceres had found the girdle.
— from Gods and Heroes; or, The Kingdom of Jupiter by R. E. (Robert Edward) Francillon

After these ports had fallen into our military possession the blockade was raised and commerce with them permitted upon prescribed terms and conditions.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

In one place we met with the belief of a day of judgment; insomuch that they were marvellously displeased at the Spaniards for discomposing the bones of the dead, in rifling the sepultures for riches, saying that those bones so disordered could not easily rejoin; the traffic by exchange, and no other way; fairs and markets for that end; dwarfs and deformed people for the ornament of the tables of princes; the use of falconry, according to the nature of their hawks; tyrannical subsidies; nicety in gardens; dancing, tumbling tricks, music of instruments, coats of arms, tennis-courts, dice and lotteries, wherein they are sometimes so eager and hot as to stake themselves and their liberty; physic, no otherwise than by charms; the way of writing in cypher; the belief of only one first man, the father of all nations; the adoration of one God, who formerly lived a man in perfect virginity, fasting, and penitence, preaching the laws of nature, and the ceremonies of religion, and that vanished from the world without a natural death; the theory of giants; the custom of making themselves drunk with their beverages, and drinking to the utmost; religious ornaments painted with bones and dead men’s skulls; surplices, holy water sprinkled; wives and servants, who present themselves with emulation, burnt and interred with the dead husband or master; a law by which the eldest succeeds to all the estate, no part being left for the younger but obedience; the custom that, upon promotion to a certain office of great authority, the promoted is to take upon him a new name, and to leave that which he had before; another to strew lime upon the knee of the new-born child, with these words: “From dust thou earnest, and to dust thou must return;” as also the art of augury.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Fresnel held the opinions upon poetry that are current among men of the world, and M. de Maltry the perceptions of the spinners of most complicated verse—verse that is incomprehensible to the general public.
— from Notre Coeur; or, A Woman's Pastime: A Novel by Guy de Maupassant

In the upper part they are clean, and are generally kept so by private contributions.
— from Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City by James Dabney McCabe