Down to the present time the saying is current in Carnarvonshire, where allusions to the cutty black sow are still occasionally made to frighten children.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

2734 Now Kimoli, one of the Cyclades, between Siphnos and Melos.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

When the trays re-appeared with biscuits and wine, punctually at a quarter to nine, there was conversation, comparing of cards, and talking over tricks; but by-and-by Captain Brown sported a bit of literature.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

This legislative is not only the supreme power of the commonwealth, but sacred and unalterable in the hands where the community have once placed it; nor can any edict of any body else, in what form soever conceived, or by what power soever backed, have the force and obligation of a law, which has not its sanction from that legislative which the public has chosen and appointed: for without this the law could not have that, which is absolutely necessary to its being a law,* the consent of the society, over whom no body can have a power to make laws, but by their own consent, and by authority received from them; and therefore all the obedience, which by the most solemn ties any one can be obliged to pay, ultimately terminates in this supreme power, and is directed by those laws which it enacts: nor can any oaths to any foreign power whatsoever, or any domestic subordinate power, discharge any member of the society from his obedience to the legislative, acting pursuant to their trust; nor oblige him to any obedience contrary to the laws so enacted, or farther than they do allow; it being ridiculous to imagine one can be tied ultimately to obey any power in the society, which is not the supreme.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

Among other things, Canute promised Erling the whole country between Stad and Rygiarbit to rule over.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

[Pg 328] on individual character, is rather a personal attribute, and cannot be created by study, although it may be improved.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

The prepuce in this condition being superfluous, and acting as an impediment, should be removed by operation.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

He then brought her, without being in the least moved at what she had suffered, into the presence of Caius, and that in such a state as was sad to behold; and Caius, being somewhat affected with the sight of Quintilia, who had her body miserably disordered by the pains she had undergone, freed both her and Pompedius of the crime laid to their charge.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

An answer was not immediately forthcoming from the rancher; he sat staring absently at the backs of his roughened hands, now and again rubbing one or the other, and enveloped in a gloom that Bryant could both see and feel.
— from The Iron Furrow by George C. (George Clifford) Shedd

In a word, he was a powerful, virile, passionate, able man, rough, as were nearly all his countrymen, but strong and true.
— from Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Volume 1 by Lyndon Orr

I for one cannot believe such a charge to be true.
— from The Vicar's People by George Manville Fenn

They will evince their gratitude for such care by submission and deference to every command, and the transition from that state of mind to attachment is more easy, and its results more permanent, than may be supposed.
— from Two Voyages to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land by Thomas Reid

The man's cool effrontery and the tone of lofty regard for the interests of the owners of the Durend works almost stunned Max, and for a moment he could but stare at him in dumb astonishment.
— from Two Daring Young Patriots; or, Outwitting the Huns by W. P. Shervill

From one point the drawing-room window could be seen, and there the anxious Robert stood, pale with anxiety, stiff and upright in his newly-creased trousers (well turned up to show the new blue socks), his soulful eyes fixed steadfastly on the bend in the drive round which the beloved should come.
— from Just William by Richmal Crompton

But, although this doctrine is despised by the inexperienced, nevertheless God-fearing and anxious consciences find by experience that it brings the greatest consolation, because consciences cannot be set at rest through any works, but only by faith, when they take the sure ground that for Christ's sake they have a reconciled God.
— from The Augsburg Confession The confession of faith, which was submitted to His Imperial Majesty Charles V at the diet of Augsburg in the year 1530 by Philipp Melanchthon

In the evening, class again for an hour or two; this evening class being sometimes a singing lesson, heartily enjoyed by the teacher.
— from Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Then turning his arms against Benabad, Joseph took Cordova, besieged Seville, and was preparing for the assault of that city, when the virtuous Benabad, sacrificing his crown and even his liberty to save his subjects from the horrors that threatened them, delivered himself up, together with his family of a hundred children, to the disposal of the Almoravide.
— from History of the Moors of Spain by Florian

By its light could be seen a band of men, some of whom were on horseback, speeding towards the place of meeting.
— from The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth