"Alas," replied the horse, "avarice and fidelity do not dwell together in one house.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

An abyss that began at his hips and reached to his ankles.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Others wandered into the country, and went forward any way, as their desperation guided them, not knowing whither they went or would go: till, faint and tired, and not getting any relief, the houses and villages on the road refusing to admit them to lodge whether infected or no, they have perished by the roadside or gotten into barns and died there, none daring to come to them or relieve them, though perhaps not infected, for nobody would believe them.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

This decision did away with Sir Harry's claim to be doyen , and his reason for asserting a right to have audience before any of his colleagues.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

Of course the children tyrannized over her, and ruled the house as so on as they found out that kicking and squalling brought them whatever they wanted.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

and rush to his arms.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

You intend to make yourself a complete stranger to me: to live under this roof only as Adèle’s governess; if ever I say a friendly word to you, if ever a friendly feeling inclines you again to me, you will say,—‘That man had nearly made me his mistress: I must be ice and rock to him;’ and ice and rock you will accordingly become.”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

side about 11/2 below us he had shot a brown bear which immediately turned on him and pursued him a considerable distance but he had wounded it so badly that it could not overtake him; I immediately turned out with seven of the party in quest of this monster, we at length found his trale and persued him about a mile by the blood through very thick brush of rosbushes and the large leafed willow; we finally found him concealed in some very thick brush and shot him through the skull with two balls; we proceeded dress him as soon as possible, we found him in good order; it was a monstrous beast, not quite so large as that we killed a few days past but in all other rispects much the same the hair is remarkably long fine and rich tho he appears parshally to have discharged his winter coat; we now found that Bratton had shot him through the center of the lungs, notwithstanding which he had pursued him near half a mile and had returned more than double that distance and with his tallons had prepared himself a bed in the earth of about 2 feet deep and five long and was perfectly alive when we found him which could not have been less than 2 hours after he received the wound;
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Pitching his camp on the shore of the Adriatic, in a district extraordinarily rich in every kind of produce, he took great pains to refresh his men and restore their health, and no less so that of the horses.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

And you—well you know, old boy, you were never a reproach to him, as the sight of me was!"
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

“Came to Upper Canada in the year 1796, too late to obtain the King’s bounty of family land, but was placed on the United Empire list, and received two hundred acres for himself and each of his children.
— from History of the settlement of Upper Canada (Ontario,) with special reference to the Bay Quinté by William Canniff

In the language of Colonel Willett's official despatches, "the fields of Johnstown, the brooks and rivers, the hills and mountains, the deep and gloomy marshes through which they had to pass, these only could tell; and, perhaps, the officers who detached them on the expedition."
— from Life of Joseph Brant—Thayendanegea (Vol. II) Including the Border Wars of the American Revolution and Sketches of the Indian Campaigns of Generals Harmar, St. Clair, and Wayne; And Other Matters Connected with the Indian Relations of the United States and Great Britain, from the Peace of 1783 to the Indian Peace of 1795 by William L. (William Leete) Stone

How long we might have remained in this ridiculous position it is impossible to say, but for the incursion of three thriving farmers—laid on by the waiter, I think—who came into the coffee-room unbuttoning their great-coats and rubbing their hands, and before whom, as they charged at the fire, we were obliged to give way.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

"There were moments, indeed, when I believed in you; but five minutes ago, when you flung me over so decidedly, and refused to have anything to do with me, I lost faith in you, and began to think you a thorough-going coquette like all the rest.
— from Mrs. Geoffrey by Duchess

Mr. Newcome was shrewd, and he understood me well enough, though he probably found it a relief to his apprehensions to see the conversation inclining toward these generalities, instead of sticking to the storehouse.
— from The Chainbearer; Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

But we will leave Catharine for a short season, among the lodges of the Indians, and return to Hector and Louis.
— from Lost in the Backwoods: A Tale of the Canadian Forest by Catharine Parr Strickland Traill

The moment he understood their errand, he insisted on giving them something to eat and drink, and refused to hear anything more until they had all satisfied their hunger.
— from Fire in the Woods Illustrated by James De Mille

The priest shows him that all his errors are owing to his ingratitude towards his mother, and that sin held his tongue in bondage when he ought to have inquired the meaning of the graal ; he imposes a penance on him, gives him advice, reveals to him a mysterious prayer containing certain terrible words, which he forbids him from making known; and then Perceval, absolved from his sins, fasts, adores the Cross, hears Mass, receives Holy Communion, and returns to a new life.
— from Breton Legends Translated from the French by Anonymous

He appeared to take pleasure in being as rude to her as the letter of politeness allowed; and she bore it patiently, without relaxing her efforts to please and attract.
— from Alone by Marion Harland

In the first place this form of human association, based upon the activities of otherwise idle women, and requiring the home as its vehicle of expression, tends to postpone marriage.
— from The home: its work and influence by Charlotte Perkins Gilman