The heart made no more blood, and so The other members ceased to glow; All wanted strength, And thus the working men at length Saw that their idle monarch, in his way, Toiled for the common weal as well as they.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents.—Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do ."
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Then begin a second triangle on the nearest, adjacent thread.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

The city had originally but a small territory of its own, and Romulus gained the greater part of its possessions by the sword.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

3 funeral rites preceding a burial accompanied or followed by a solemn tolling of bells.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The scything had begun, and she took off her pince-nez to watch it.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

The Populous Otherworld The Chinese pantheon has gradually become so multitudinous that there is scarcely a being or thing which is not, or has not been at some time or other, propitiated or worshipped.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

Yet by another sign thy offspring know; The several trees you gave me long ago, While yet a child, these fields I loved to trace, And trod thy footsteps with unequal pace; To every plant in order as we came, Well-pleased, you told its nature and its name, Whate'er my childish fancy ask'd, bestow'd: Twelve pear-trees, bowing with their pendent load, And ten, that red with blushing apples glow'd; Full fifty purple figs; and many a row Of various vines that then began to blow, A future vintage!
— from The Odyssey by Homer

Now when the messenger saw that Bjorn's inclinations were turned towards the money, he threw down two thick gold rings, and said, "Take the money at once, Bjorn, and swear the oaths to King Canute; for I can promise thee that this money is but a trifle, compared to what thou wilt receive if thou followest King Canute.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Not that such impositions are strong enough in themselves; but a powerful interest, often concealed from those whom it affects, works at the bottom, and secures the operation.
— from Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke by Edmund Burke

The nurse may have to sleep in the same room; but, if it be possible, she should occupy an adjoining room, she should have a regular time each day for an hour's walk in the fresh air, she should be served regular meals, and be allowed some time out of the twenty-four hours for unbroken slumber.
— from The Mother and Her Child by William S. (William Samuel) Sadler

It is as unwise to be always saying to oneself, ‘Into what pigeon-hole of my brain ought I to put this fact, and what conclusion ought I to draw from it?’ as to ask your teeth how they intend to chew, and your gastric juice how it intends to convert your three courses and a dessert into chyle.
— from At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies by Charles Kingsley

Fosso Bettinia), a small tributary of the river Tiber, joining it on the left (east) bank, about 11 m. N. of Rome.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

Why had he not made a descent into the hostile vale, and brought away some trophy of his victory—some materials for the cannibal entertainment which I had heard usually terminated every engagement?
— from Typee: A Romance of the South Seas by Herman Melville

She considered the brother and sister theory of Bartley's friendship with Margaret and resolved to cleave thereto with all her strength.
— from The Virgin in Judgment by Eden Phillpotts

The Durande had never worked better at sea than on that day.
— from Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo

To the dwellers in towns and artificiality there would have been something inexpressibly weird and nerve-stirring in this mystery-suggesting solitude, in the great sweep of the bush-clad spurs, black and gloomy in shadow, silvern and ghostly where the moon reached them, and in the stealthy unknown sounds coming unexpectedly, now on this hand now on that, from the darksome depths of their recesses, but to this man it all brought a strange tightening of the heart.
— from A Secret of the Lebombo by Bertram Mitford

Primrose found her faith shaken in the capacities of an income of thirty pounds a year; but a sum total of two hundred pounds she still believed to be almost inexhaustible.
— from The Palace Beautiful: A Story for Girls by L. T. Meade

Mrs. Vanderlyn was not too willing, but, as she thought of it, it seemed quite safe, and she could tell her friends, she rapidly reflected, that she had been swayed by irresistible impulse of mercy.
— from The Old Flute-Player: A Romance of To-day by Charles Turner Dazey