I will bury him myself before daybreak, in the garden that the thing may not be known, so give me the sheet, I will wrap up the body in it, and bury him as a dog burries things by scratching."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

The seven or eight illustrations which appear in the American edition of the "Characteristics," dated at Toronto, are etched by herself, and bear her autograph, "Anna."
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

Their salvation, indeed, he does not despise, if he is truly good; for so great is the righteousness of that man who receives his virtues from the Spirit of God, that he loves his very enemies, and so loves them that he desires that his haters and detractors may be turned to righteousness, and become his associates, and that not in an earthly but in a heavenly country.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

He reached the tavern in a bad humor and at once made up a game.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It may be, said the King, but thereof saw we none, save that same day as he departed from us, knights told me that there came a dwarf hither suddenly, and brought him armour and a good horse full well and richly beseen; and thereat we all had marvel from whence that riches came, that we deemed all that he was come of men of worship.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

I have thought myself extremely unfortunate to be out of the way at that only time when you were pleased lately to touch here, and express so great a desire of taking your leave of my Uncle; which could not but have been admitted by him as a most welcome exception to his general orders against being interrupted; and I could most heartily wish that the circumstances of your health and distance did not forbid me to ask the favour of your assisting in the holding up of the pawll at his interment, which is intended to be on Thursday next; for if the manes are affected with what passes below, I am sure this would have been very grateful to his.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse, and a turtle dove, and am still on their trail.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

But as you have not a bad heart, and as I mean well by you, there is one thing I will grant you; if you fall into any difficulty, come to the forest and cry: “Iron Hans,” and then I will come and help you.
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

“By G—d you shall not take her;” and letting go her hand, Gerard advanced before her and assumed a position of defence.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

As the cracked jarring note might always be heard, and as it jarred loudest amidst the loftiest exultation of the melody, so was there a continual quake through Clifford, causing him most to quiver while he wore a triumphant smile, and seemed almost under a necessity to skip in his gait.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

God told him what to do, and when he did it the acts became his acts, and were not the acts of God, nor of any other.
— from The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Robert Wallace

[Pg 227] she with her youth and beauty, her ardour and her wealth, all rapturously given, and with the happy prospect added to all other joys of being certain of applause for the distinction shown in her choice! . . .
— from Browning's Heroines by Ethel Colburn Mayne

At one of the stations on the line he was joined by a Belgian, his agent, as he told me, in Brussels for the sale of his crockery.
— from The Double Traitor by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

"My dear Jacob," Mrs. Stanburne said decidedly, "we like you very much—we have always liked you very much, and you have always behaved honorably, and as a gentleman.
— from Wenderholme: A Story of Lancashire and Yorkshire by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

The interview that had begun so unfortunately ended quite pleasantly, and when Patricia returned to her room her aunt bade her adieu almost tenderly.
— from Aunt Jane's Nieces by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

The mild approach to rapture on Morland's part was perhaps, after all, only a matter of common decency, to be accepted by her as a convention of the scène à faire .
— from Where Love Is by William John Locke

He’s so wrapped up in high life, that the least allusion to business or worldly matters—like that woman just now, for instance—quite distracts him; but, as I often say, I think his disappointment a great thing for him, because if he hadn’t been disappointed he couldn’t have written about blighted hopes and all that; and the fact is, if it hadn’t happened as it has, I don’t believe his genius would ever have come out at all.’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Marie Antoinette by her attitude and facial expression revealed her belief—she was confident the royal troops had won the day.
— from The Sword of Honor; or, The Foundation of the French Republic A Tale of The French Revolution by Eugène Sue