When a new baby is born she finds out whether it is a boy or girl and reports to the council.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Then the wicked launch into eternity; are consigned over to the bar of God; and receive their eternal doom.
— from Sermons by the late Rev. Richard de Courcy by Richard De Courcy

As they approached the entrance, the black workers deposited their bits of gravel and ran to their assistance.
— from In the Open: Intimate Studies and Appreciations of Nature by Stanton Davis Kirkham

In the early days both of Greece and Rome, the first duty enforced was that of a man to his country.
— from History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

He leaped over the body of Garcia, and ran toward the stairway.
— from The White Chief: A Legend of Northern Mexico by Mayne Reid

Ponder ye in your hearts the grace and the blessings of God and render thanks unto Him at eventide and at dawn.
— from A Compilaton on Women by Universal House of Justice

If you need a four-line bit of gloom and rhyme to finish off your thirty-second page, our price is twenty-five dollars instead of seventy-five cents, as of yore.'
— from The Inventions of the Idiot by John Kendrick Bangs

He said, further, that the only things he remembered were those that related to his business of guarding and rearing the birds; all other things he observed in animals, however remarkable they might seem to him at the moment, were things that didn't matter and were quickly forgotten.
— from A Shepherd's Life: Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

Occasionally we pass motionless bodies of gophers and rabbits that have been struck by the flying wheel of some passing motor as they madly scrambled for safety.
— from Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway by Effie Price Gladding

At which I was greatly lightened and encouraged in my soul; for thus, at that very instant, it was expounded to me, Begin at the beginning of Genesis, and read to the end of the Revelation, and see if you can find that there was ever any that trusted in the Lord, and was confounded.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

It was Mr. and Mrs. Horace Dinsmore who did the honors at Ion early in the evening, receiving and welcoming each bevy of guests, and replying to the oft repeated inquiry for the master and mistress of the establishment, that they would make their appearance shortly.
— from Elsie's Motherhood by Martha Finley