«¡Bendito sea, pues, Alah, que crió estos y otros bichos para que se coman
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

Perikles now courted the people in every way, constantly arranging public spectacles, festivals, and processions in the city, by which he educated the Athenians to take pleasure in refined amusements; and also he sent out sixty triremes to cruise every year, in which many of the people served for hire for eight months, learning and practising seamanship.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

cliða (eo, y) m. poultice .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

"Ah," cried she with her dying voice, "You cannot escape your fate."
— from Aesop's Fables by Aesop

Our utter ignorance of the brilliant part which Swann was playing in the world of fashion was, of course, due in part to his own reserve and discretion, but also to the fact that middle-class people in those days took what was almost a Hindu view of society, which they held to consist of sharply defined castes, so that everyone at his birth found himself called to that station in life which his parents already occupied, and nothing, except the chance of a brilliant career or of a 'good' marriage, could extract you from that station or admit you to a superior caste.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

You fear some disastrous consequences from which you cannot escape, your heart and mind are at war, and there is a struggle in your breast between passion and sentiment.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Court , sb. court, enclosure, yard, PP, MD; curt , S; kurt , S; cort , MD; courte , PP.—AF.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Break off my arms, and I can embrace you, Enfold you with my heart as with a hand.
— from Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke

The soul, he seems to feel, is a thing of such inconceivable depth, complexity, and delicacy, that when you introduce into it, or suffer to develop in it, any change, and particularly the change called evil, you can form only the vaguest idea of the reaction you will provoke.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

You can do it jest as well as what I can, ef you only try.”
— from The Boy Broker; Or, Among the Kings of Wall Street by Frank Andrew Munsey

"Laws-a-massy, child, ef ye would jes hev b'lieved me 'bout'n them Kittredges—Abs'lom in partic'lar—ye'd be happy an' free now," said the old man, his imagination somewhat extending his experience, for he had had no knowledge of his son-in-law until their relationship began.
— from The Phantoms of the Foot-Bridge, and Other Stories by Mary Noailles Murfree

"And I don't see what right you folks have to disturb my peace and comfort, either." "You belong to me," the Tin Woodman declared.
— from The Tin Woodman of Oz A Faithful Story of the Astonishing Adventure Undertaken by the Tin Woodman, Assisted by Woot the Wanderer, the Scarecrow of Oz, and Polychrome, the Rainbow's Daughter by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

We both esteem Johanna with the craven esteem you feel for a person, at any moment capable of giving notice, who does all the unpleasant things you would otherwise have to do yourself.
— from Fräulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther by Elizabeth Von Arnim

How can you think——’ She said no more; but the pained expression of her mouth and eyes said clearly enough: ‘You know that I have given you everything—that I am dressed in clothes fit for the rag-bag—that I have not bought a bonnet for three years—that Corentine washes my linen in the kitchen because I should blush to give such rubbish to the laundress; and you know also that my worst misery is to refuse what you ask.
— from The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 by Alphonse Daudet

"I will lead you to the loving Father in Heaven who cares for us all as if we were His children; but not now—you must rest and neither talk nor hear of anything that can excite your fevered blood.
— from The Emperor — Volume 06 by Georg Ebers

About thirty-five hundred ships pass through the canal each year, an average of nearly ten a day.
— from The Old World and Its Ways Describing a Tour Around the World and Journeys Through Europe by William Jennings Bryan

Could even you blame her for wanting to run away from this awful house, and she an Irish girl?"
— from The Heather-Moon by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson