Approach the Jötuns bench, and sitting let us together talk; we will our heads in the hall pledge, guest!
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

Chia asked Mr Chên what office he filled in Heaven; to which the latter replied that he was only a fox who, by a sinless life, had finally attained to that clear perception of the truth which leads to immortality.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

I was a little startled myself, for it seemed for an instant as if the stranger had great eyes like burning flames; but a second look dispelled the illusion.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

The rest of them bore also some little resemblance to alphabetical characters, and Peters was willing, at all events, to adopt the idle opinion that they were really such.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Lord Hertford said— “Touching the King’s majesty’s ordainment concerning books and such like serious matters, it may peradventure please your highness to ease your time with lightsome entertainment, lest you go wearied to the banquet and suffer harm thereby.”
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

As for the lady, who had long been the sport of fortune, but the term of whose ills was now drawing near, she no sooner set eyes on Antigonus than she remembered to have seen him at Alexandria in no mean station in her father's service; wherefore, conceiving a sudden hope of yet by his aid regaining her royal estate, and knowing her merchant to be abroad, she let call him to her as quickliest she might and asked him, blushing,
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

42 See the simplicity of these base slaves, Who, for the villains have no wit themselves, Think me to be a senseless lump of clay, That will with every water wash to dirt!
— from The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe

We decided to build a substantial log- house and excite the envy of the Brigade boys; but by the time we had cut and trimmed the first log it seemed unnecessary to be so elaborate, and so we concluded to build it of saplings.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

If we were to collide with anything of that sort, there wouldn't be a soul left to tell the tale."
— from Atlantis by Gerhart Hauptmann

Involuntarily she breathed a soft little exclamation of awe and delight.
— from A Voice in the Wilderness by Grace Livingston Hill

The effect in question Mrs. Hamilton (who appears to be a Scottish lady) might produce by the judicious employment—it would have to be judicious—of the bagpipes.
— from Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

I want to be a Superman, like that learned man you told me about with the odd name.
— from In Brief Authority by F. Anstey

Francisco and Diego ordered every man, but five, into the house; the door was firmly barricaded, and some large pieces of rock, which had been rolled into the passage, piled against it.
— from The Pirate by Frederick Marryat

Any good garden soil will suit the Daffodil, but a stiffish loam is what it likes best.
— from The Children's Book of Gardening by Mrs. Paynter

They had been bought and sold like cattle.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 06, June, 1888 by Various

It contains everything: flowers, birds, a shelf, little Georges’ sweet face above, and your beautiful verses for wings.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

But they are forlorn and immeasurable only because, and so long as, we let our selfish personal interests govern and mold our public and social action.
— from The Subterranean Brotherhood by Julian Hawthorne