For the ceremony of driving out the scapegoat see Harrison, Prolegomena to Greek Religion 97; Frazer, Golden Bough , Vol. 3, p. 93.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

The punishment usually consists of deprivation of the thing which had been bestowed by God.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

And though 't is true that man can only die once, 'T is not so pleasant in the Gulf of Lyons.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

"Oh no," replied the counsellor; "I can only discourse on topics which every one should understand.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

These were temples in which were found many idols made of clay which were of a pretty good size; some had the countenances of devils, others those of females: some again had even more horrible shapes, and appeared to represent Indians committing horrible offences.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

The custom of drinking it very hot and following with a large quantity of cold water is a very common cause of dilatation of the stomach in the Philippines.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

I SHOWING THE QUALITY OF THE CUSTOMERS OF THE INNKEEPER OF PROVINS Twenty years after, the gigantic innkeeper of Provins stood looking at a cloud of dust on the highway.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

He was chief of Dunara, on the Luni.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

He went often to her little cottage outside Dublin; often they spent their evenings alone.
— from Dubliners by James Joyce

Under his influence as Pacificator of Tuscany—an office created for him by the Pope—the Guelfs were enabled slowly to return from exile, and the Ghibelines were gradually depressed into a condition of dependence on the goodwill of the citizens over whom they had so lately domineered.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Congratulated one day on the splendor of his coat, La Fontaine found to his surprise and delight that his hostess had substituted it—when, he had not noticed—for the shabby old garment that he had been wearing for years.
— from The Stones of Paris in History and Letters, Volume 1 (of 2) by Benjamin Ellis Martin

But I think you could have added some interesting matter on the character or disposition of the young ourangs which have been kept in France and England.
— from More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters by Charles Darwin

the Court of Directors of the E. I. Company.
— from Akbar: An Eastern Romance by P. A. S. van (Petrus Abraham Samuel) Limburg Brouwer

One of the functions of aesthetic criticism is to define these limitations; to estimate the degree in which a given work of art fulfils its responsibilities to its special material; to note in a picture that true pictorial charm, which is neither a mere poetical thought or sentiment, on the one hand, nor a mere result of communicable technical skill in colour or design, on the other; to define in a poem that true poetical quality, which is neither descriptive nor meditative merely, but comes of an inventive handling of rhythmical language, the element of song in the singing; to note in music the musical charm, that essential music, which presents no words, no matter of sentiment or thought, separable from the special form in which it is conveyed to us.
— from The Renaissance: studies in art and poetry by Walter Pater

In conditions of depression, on the other hand, such as nervous people often have to endure, the ego contracts and shrinks.
— from The Monist, Vol. 1, 1890-1891 by Various

Oh! in what black array did the sins of my whole life pass before me, and how did I sigh for annihilation; or, if I could in any way atone for my wickedness, if I could but go and bury myself in a cave or den of the earth, and forego for ever all intercourse with mankind, how easily and how cheaply did I then conceive I should purchase pardon and peace!
— from Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade by William Surtees

Under the name of the Seeadler it left Bremerhaven on Dec. 21, 1916, in company with the Möwe, ran the British blockade by the ruse indicated above, and began its career of destruction on two oceans.
— from Current History, Vol. VIII, No. 3, June 1918 A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times by Various

An' nen the Bear he falled clean on down out The tree—away clean to the ground, he did— Spling-splung!
— from Riley Child-Rhymes by James Whitcomb Riley

I have known some other cases of displacement of the native tongue, and have lately had the opportunity of watching a case of such displacement during its progress.
— from The Intellectual Life by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Sir Moses now made his reports to Lord Stanley, Baron Brunnow, and the London Committee of Deputies of the British Jews.
— from Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume 2 (of 2) Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries, from 1812 to 1883 by Montefiore, Judith Cohen, Lady