Among the tribes at the mouth of the Wanigela River, in New Guinea, “a man who has taken life is considered to be impure until he has undergone certain ceremonies: as soon as possible after the deed he cleanses himself and his weapon.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Wangen in Baden, bonfire and burning discs on the first Sunday in Lent at, x. 117 Wanigela River, in New Guinea, purification of manslayers among tribes on the, iii. 167 sq. ; preparations for fishing turtle and dugong among the tribes of the, iii. 192 Waniki, the, of East Africa, their belief in the spirits of trees, ii. 12; their reverence for coco-nut palms, ii. 16; their mode of killing their cattle, iii. 247
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer

If we take the want of much wear on the lip of hard basaltic rock as of any value, the period when this rock was riven is not geologically very remote.
— from Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa by David Livingstone

Without realizing it, Ned gripped the rail and braced himself with his feet.
— from The Dreadnought Boys Aboard a Destroyer by John Henry Goldfrap

For the sake of the manhood which is latent in them, I would not have turned them back; but I should have felt almost as reluctant, on their own account, to hasten them forward to the stranger's land; and I think my prevalent idea was, that, whoever may be benefited by the results of this war, it will not be the present generation of negroes, the childhood of whose race is now gone forever, and who must henceforth fight a hard battle with the world, on very unequal terms.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

24:6 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the bloody city, to the caldron whose rust is therein, and whose rust is not gone out of it!
— from The World English Bible (WEB), Complete by Anonymous

The only curb to their impatience was the absolute knowledge that an attempt at faster running would result in not getting there in time at all.
— from Si Klegg, Book 4 Experiences of Si and Shorty on the Great Tullahoma Campaign by John McElroy

This vessel has been subjected to some experiments, but with what results is not generally known.
— from Torpedoes and Torpedo Warfare Containing a Complete and Concise Account of the Rise and Progress of Submarine Warfare by Charles William Sleeman

But this wild Ruin is no ghost Of his devices—buried, lost!
— from Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 by Dorothy Wordsworth

Power without right is not government.
— from The American Republic: Its Constitution, Tendencies, and Destiny by Orestes Augustus Brownson

"But I want you to understand that I was right in not going," protested Anne.
— from Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls by Josephine Chase