A similar mode of making rain is still practised, as we have seen, in Halmahera near New Guinea.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Mr. Rochester, it seems, by the surgeon’s orders, went to bed early that night; nor did he rise soon next morning.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

What are the moral reflections in stanza i ?
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

The rabbit-plague has indeed been very bad in Australia, and it could account for one mountain, but not for a mountain range, it seems to me.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

] Note 37 ( return ) [ Hunc vero triumphum, tam laude quam memoria dignum, ad Meresburgum rex in superiori coenaculo domus per Zeus, id est, picturam, notari praecepit, adeo ut rem veram potius quam verisimilem videas: a high encomium, (Liutprand, l. ii.
— 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

In spite of my riches I shall not, however, give up trade till I have amassed a capital of a hundred thousand drachmas, when, having become a man of much consideration, I shall request the hand of the grand-vizir's daughter, taking care to inform the worthy father that I have heard favourable reports of her beauty and wit, and that I will pay down on our wedding day 3 thousand gold pieces.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

But I shall not have to wait long for my just revenge; for if you now should crop my leaves, and cut me down to my root, I shall provide the wine to pour over you when you are led as a victim to the sacrifice.” H2 anchor Jupiter and the Monkey JUPITER ISSUED a proclamation to all the beasts of the forest and promised a royal reward to the one whose offspring should be deemed the handsomest.
— from Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend by Aesop

His melancholy Reflections , ib. Surrenders to the King’s Proclamation , ib.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

These poor priests receive from the Danish Government a most ridiculously inadequate salary, and collect one quarter of the tithe of their parish—not more than sixty marks current, or about L3 10s.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

Spies shall be set over you; every step, every look shall be watched; Your eyes will discover my Rival; I shall know her, and when She is found, tremble, Alphonso for her and for yourself!' As She uttered these last words her fury mounted to such a pitch as to stop her powers of respiration.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

And in order that my dear old father and mother may have the benefit of my rascality in case anything unforeseen should arise to prevent my return, I suggest you hand over the boodle this minute, and I'll go ashore and express it home.”
— from Cappy Ricks Retires: But That Doesn't Keep Him from Coming Back Stronger Than Ever by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

You are a merry rogue, Bilbil," laughed the King; "a merry rogue in spite of your gloomy features.
— from Rinkitink in Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

This polyp is subjected to a transformation still more remarkable; its structure becomes complex, its body articulate, and it seems to be composed of a dozen disks piled one upon the other, like the jars of a voltaic pile; the upper disk is convex, and is separated from the colony after a convulsive effort; it becomes free, and an excessively small, star-like Medusa is the result; every disk, that is, every individual, is isolated one after the other in the same manner.
— from The Ocean World: Being a Description of the Sea and Its Living Inhabitants. by Louis Figuier

That, though placed in my room, it should be regarded as the property of the society which owned it, and, consequently, free to the inspection of its members but to no one else.
— from The Bronze Hand 1897 by Anna Katharine Green

What seemed the centre of the Stranger’s form lay open to my view: yet I could see no heart, nor lungs, nor arteries, only a beautiful harmonious Something—for which I had no words; but you, my Readers in Spaceland, would call it the surface of the Sphere.
— from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott

The pigeons, which assisted my rural illusions, seem no more than miserable birds which have mistaken the roof for the back yard; the smoke, which rises in light clouds, instead of making me dream of the panting of Vesuvius, reminds me of kitchen preparations and dishwater; and lastly, the telegraph, that I see far off on the old tower of Montmartre, has the effect of a vile gallows stretching its arms over the city.
— from An Attic Philosopher in Paris — Volume 1 by Émile Souvestre

“If we are by a cruel stroke of fate compelled to live in a state of indigence when pride has made my eldest child refuse the assistance of my relatives, I still maintain that I have a right to keep up my old and ladylike title—mamma.”
— from The New Mistress: A Tale by George Manville Fenn

In the morning, as I opened the shutters of my room, I saw an armed guard in the courtyard,—an unusual circumstance.
— from Prison Journals During the French Revolution by Duras, Louise Henriette Charlotte Philippine (de Noailles) de Durfort, duchesse de

To this it is objected that the mere resemblance in sound of Gelübde and Club is inconclusive, for the Orders of Templars, Hospitallers, and Prussian Knights, were never called clubs in England; and the origin of the noun need not be sought for beyond its verb to club , when persons joined in paying the cost of the mutual entertainment.
— from Club Life of London, Vol. 1 (of 2) With Anecdotes of the Clubs, Coffee-Houses and Taverns of the Metropolis During the 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries by John Timbs

This is a Mexican and Central American Hawk, which occasionally crosses the borders of the United States, having been seen by Mr. Ridgway in Southern Illinois, and found breeding, by Captain Bendire, in Arizona, near Tucson.
— from A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 3 of 3 by Robert Ridgway