The fire which blazed up so mysteriously may have been kept constantly smoldering below, as described in number 111 : “As their virgils [ sic ] and manner of conducting their vespers and mystical fire in this rotunda, are extremely singular, and altogether different from the customs and usages of any other people, I shall proceed to describe them.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

But if there is a real desire on all hands to make the experiment successful, there needs seldom be any difficulty in not only preserving these diversities, but giving them the guaranty of a constitutional provision against any attempt at assimilation except by the voluntary act of those who would be affected by the change.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

Be-Blowed , a derisive instruction never carried into effect, as, “You BE-BLOWED .”
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Regaining his faculties by slow and faint glimmerings, he at length sat upright; and, displaying a very yellow face, a very red nose, and a very bristly beard: the joint effect of which was considerably heightened by a dirty white handkerchief, spotted with blood, drawn over the crown of his head and tied under his chin: stared ruefully at Ralph in silence, until his feelings found a vent in this pithy sentence: ‘I say, young fellow, you’ve been and done it now; you have!’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

But the earnest desire to look on blood and death, is not peculiar to those dark ages; though in the gladiatorial exercise of single combat and general tourney, they were habituated to the bloody spectacle of brave men falling by each other's hands.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

2 [A13; a2] be a diver in net fishing.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Did I not, on the contrary, tell you that he would almost certainly be acquitted?” “Yes, but——” “And did I not immediately afterwards speak of the difficulty of bringing the murderer to justice?
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

All those women and children excursion beanfeast burned and drowned in New York.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

I have a brother at Dieppe in Normandy!
— from Candide by Voltaire

In the third place, different laws of each community may be adopted; as, for instance, as it seems correspondent to the nature of a democracy, that the magistrates should be chosen by lot, but an aristocracy by vote, and in the one state according to a census, but not in the other: let, then, an aristocracy and a free state copy something from each of them; let them follow an oligarchy in choosing their magistrates by vote, but a democracy in not admitting of any census, and thus blend together the different customs of the two governments.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

But now that Perris was footloose he became a danger imperilling not only Jordan but Hervey himself.
— from Alcatraz by Max Brand

There was little for us to see, but that little was well worth seeing; only a tree or a clump of bushes or a hedge-row here and there, but all dimmed into new forms and graces for that day and for us.
— from Virginia: the Old Dominion As seen from its colonial waterway, the historic river James, whose every succeeding turn reveals country replete with monuments and scenes recalling the march of history and its figures from the days of Captain John Smith to the present time by Frank W. Hutchins

“It is a noble idea, laddie, and no to be sneered at, but A doot it needs a better world for it than we hae at the present.”
— from To Him That Hath: A Tale of the West of Today by Ralph Connor

Among animals, the creature born to be a dove is never changed into an osprey; that is only possible with men.
— from Les Misérables, v. 3/5: Marius by Victor Hugo

Abdullah the Taaisha gave out as widely as he could that he meant actual business and dying if necessary at the Mahdi's tomb.
— from Khartoum Campaign, 1898; or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Bennet Burleigh

What seems to be a difference in name in the latter case appears as a difference in shape in the former.
— from A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx

The scallops are filled alternately with English lace, worked with Valenciennes, No. 240, and rows of Venetian and Brussels alternately, done in No. 200 of the same.
— from The Ladies' Work-Book Containing Instructions In Knitting, Crochet, Point-Lace, etc. by Unknown

And then he began, in his admirable way, the culture of the country; the very rottenness of its condition was attractive to him, and West Prussia became, as Silesia had hitherto been, his favourite child, that he washed and brushed, and dressed in new clothes, sent to school, controlled, and kept under his eyes, with incessant care like a true mother.
— from Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. by Gustav Freytag

As Judge Drayton of South Carolina said from the bench, “A decree is now gone forth not to be recalled, and thus has suddenly risen in the world a new empire, styled the United States of America.”
— from The American Revolution by John Fiske

He frequently alludes to Garrison and Phillips as Republicans, although nearly every other adult in the country knows that they are bitter opponents of that party,—says that Mr. Seward can rely only upon the Abolitionists in the North,—misunderstands, of course, the "irrepressible conflict,"—says that no Northern editor ventures to speak or write against Personal Liberty bills, although probably not a day passes without their being assailed by a dozen in New England alone,—that slaves never can be carried into New Mexico, although they have been carried thither, and slavery has even been declared perpetual by enactment of the Territorial Legislature,—and, speaking of Kansas, that President Buchanan's "best endeavors to secure the people of that Territory equal rights were thwarted by factionists"!—in other words, "factionists" declined to admit Kansas under the pro-slavery Lecompton constitution, forced by gross frauds upon a loathing and reluctant people.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various