But on thy life give her no answer, let her do what she will, but pass by her on the right side; further on, there is a door, which open, and thou wilt enter into a room where a quantity of rings of all kinds are lying, amongst which are some magnificent ones with shining stones; leave them, however, where they are, and seek out a plain one, which must likewise be amongst them, and bring it here to me as quickly as thou canst."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

So I told him to his teeth he did like a knave, and so he did, and went with him to the Scrivener at Bedlam, and there found how it came to pass, viz., that he had lost, or pretends to have lost, the true original, and that so he was forced to take this course; but a knave, at least a man that values not what he swears to, I perceive he is.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Nagpupútol ang kapus, ang labis ay nagdurugtong , What is short cuts off a piece from itself, what is long adds another on (the poor gets poorer, the rich richer).
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

[330] One is crowned for that which another is tormented: Ille crucem sceleris precium tulit, hic diadema ; made a knight, a lord, an earl, a great duke, (as [331] Agrippa notes) for that which another should have hung in gibbets, as a terror to the rest,
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Sancho kept spitting from time to time, and his spittle seemed somewhat ropy and dry, observing which the compassionate squire of the Grove said, "It seems to me that with all this talk of ours our tongues are sticking to the roofs of our mouths; but I have a pretty good loosener hanging from the saddle-bow of my horse," and getting up he came back the next minute with a large bota of wine and a pasty half a yard across; and this is no exaggeration, for it was made of a house rabbit so big that Sancho, as he handled it, took it to be made of a goat, not to say a kid, and looking at it he said, "And do you carry this with you, senor?"
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“She loves you,” said the artless Marton; “I know she does, but if you do not mean to marry her, you will do well to give up all intercourse with her, for she is quite determined not to grant you even a kiss as long as you are not her acknowledged suitor.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

And when they were in prison, Sir Tristram asked a knight and lady whom they found therein wherefore they were so shamefully dealt with; “for,” said he, “it was never the custom of any place of honour that I ever came unto to seize a knight and lady asking shelter and thrust them into prison, and a full evil and discourteous custom is it.”
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

"A bit elaborate," I said, trying to put the thing in as kindly a light as possible.
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

Then, coming to the bedside, he seized upon the maid, thinking to take his wife, and laid on to her so lustily with cuffs and kicks, as long as he could wag his hands and feet, that he bruised all 350 her face, ending by cutting off her hair, still giving her the while the hardest words that were ever said to worthless woman.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

And so the woful knight told her how his master and lord was betrayed through a knight and lady, and how he will never arise out of his bed till he be dead.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

H2 anchor CHAPTER VI THE OLD ASTRONOMER DISCOURSETH OF THE STARS Never before had the Prophet felt so alive with curiosity as he did when he followed Lady Enid into Mrs. Merillia’s presence, for he knew that he was about to see the venerable victim of the young librarian’s indignant chivalry, the “old gent” who had come to intimate terms with Jellybrand’s bookcase, and who had kicked and knocked at least a pint of paint off Jellybrand’s door.
— from The Prophet of Berkeley Square by Robert Hichens

Four months afterwards, with friendships changed, they gave, him the "justice" of appearing in their pages, in a long and virulent article against me and my works, representing me, "with emphatic force," as " a knave, a liar, and a pedant ."
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

Mrs. Harrington smiled in her usual contented way, and gently complained of the girl's uselessness and studied inattention, but she seems unused to opposition of any kind, and languidly allows even her servants to control her wishes.
— from Mabel's Mistake by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

[953] Philistus, Fragm. 1 (Göller), Dædalus, and Kokalus; about Liber and Juno (Fragm. 57); about the migration of the Sikels into Sicily, eighty years after the Trojan war (ap. Dionys.
— from History of Greece, Volume 01 (of 12) by George Grote

The fish are kept in large tubs and tanks filled with fresh sea water, where they swim about as keen and lively as they might do in the sea.
— from Through Scandinavia to Moscow by William Seymour Edwards

But those who sought to take advantage of his good nature in the courtroom found themselves up against as keen a lawyer and prosecutor as could be found in the whole state, or even in the Middle West.
— from Murder at Bridge by Anne Austin

Keep the jar well closed, and the pickles will be as good and keep as long as if they had been boiled.
— from Domestic French Cookery, 4th ed. by Sulpice Barué

The King came back and re-created a nation and a kingdom, and laid an iron hand on the traitors and malefactors who had competed with the enemy in the devastation of their country.
— from Tales From Jókai by Mór Jókai

The conflict of love and hate goes on between the man and the woman, and between these two and the world around them, till it reaches some sort of conclusion, they transcend into some condition of blessedness MOONRISE AND who has seen the moon, who has not seen Her rise from out the chamber of the deep, Flushed and grand and naked, as from the chamber Of finished bridegroom, seen her rise and throw Confession of delight upon the wave, Littering the waves with her own superscription Of bliss, till all her lambent beauty shakes towards us Spread out and known at last, and we are sure That beauty is a thing beyond the grave, That perfect, bright experience never falls To nothingness, and time will dim the moon Sooner than our full consummation here
— from Look! We Have Come Through! by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence