Now there was a court-yard in front of their house in which was a juniper-tree, and one day in winter the woman was standing beneath it, paring herself an apple, and while she was paring herself the apple she cut her finger, and the blood fell on the snow.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

The mother loved her daughter very much, and when she looked at her and then looked at the boy, it pierced her heart to think that he would always stand in the way of her own child, and she was continually thinking how she could get the whole of the property for her.
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

But I pity her, because she must feel that she has been acting wrong, and because I am very sure that anxiety for her brother is the cause of it.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

It was Sir Harry's wish that I should remain at Ozaka to keep up communication with the court, but I persuaded him to leave Mitford there for the purpose.
— 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

I saw him myself watching her and following her, but I prevented him, and he is just waiting for me to go away.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Then turning to us, he said, How charming the man is: since I have been in prison he has always been coming to see me, and at times he would talk to me, and was as good to me as could be, and now see how generously he sorrows on my account.
— from Phaedo by Plato

Just as I was on the point of following them he made a sign with his hand, and spoke to me, before I passed him, in the oddest manner.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Besides I put him upon having some took off upon white sattin, which he ordered presently.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The situation of Spain, separated, on all sides, from the enemies of Rome, by the sea, by the mountains, and by intermediate provinces, had secured the long tranquillity of that remote and sequestered country; and we may observe, as a sure symptom of domestic happiness, that, in a period of four hundred years, Spain furnished very few materials to the history of the Roman empire.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

In 1821, at the Bourse in Paris, he made a peculiar bargain with the cashier Castanier, who transferred to him, in exchange for his own individuality, the power which he had received from John Melmoth, the Englishman.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

The bishop on that condition consented to the loan: "But where is your security?" said he, when the poor fellow replied: "God Almighty is my bondsman in providence; he is the only security I have to offer."
— from Scotch Wit and Humor by W. H. (Walter Henry) Howe

He had no idea why he laughed, but it pleased him to do so; it pleased him, too, to hear the boy laugh.
— from Lucian the dreamer by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher

[ Enters quickly from the hallway and nods at GERDA , whom, because of his near-sightedness, he mistakes for LOUISE ; then he goes to the buffet and picks up the telephone, but in passing he remarks to GERDA ]
— from Plays by August Strindberg, Third Series by August Strindberg

Camping is in the same category with yachting, fishing, and the chase,—a thing practised by civilized man for his amusement, because it permits him to resume the habits of less civilized generations.
— from Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 by Eugénie Hamerton

An ugly old man tried to push my child out when I had put him in, but I pushed him back again energetically in my turn.
— from My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt by Sarah Bernhardt

'I am no great friend to the mystical,' said the Admiral, 'but I promised her my help while she stood in need of my protection, and I have no tide to withdraw it, now that I presume she is only in need of my purse.
— from The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties (Volume 1 of 5) by Fanny Burney

The Mayor, in calling upon Mr Bradlaugh to address the eagerly waiting crowd, said: "Let me say that I have had the opportunity of witnessing the conduct of Mr Bradlaugh in presenting himself to this constituency.
— from Charles Bradlaugh: a Record of His Life and Work, Volume 1 (of 2) With an Account of his Parliamentary Struggle, Politics and Teachings. Seventh Edition by Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner

She calls you ‘Mr. Luck’ ... to that extent I have been indiscreet....” Prosper had another letter in his pocket, a letter that he had re-read many times, always with an uneasy conflict of emotions.
— from The Branding Iron by Katharine Newlin Burt

Twin-born with the martial sense of honour, it cheers the march; it warms the bivouac; it gives music to the whir of the bullet, the roar of the ball; it plants hope in the thick of peril; knits rivals with the bond of brothers; comforts the survivor when the brother falls; takes from war its grim aspect of carnage; and from homicide itself extracts lessons that strengthen the safeguards to humanity, and perpetuate life to nations.
— from What Will He Do with It? — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Turpentine steam or mixtures of turpentine employed by Indian physicians have not been very effectual according to Moore, 1123 Kimball and Goldstein.
— from The Animal Parasites of Man by Fred. V. (Frederick Vincent) Theobald