But the bear took it all in good part, only when they were too rough he called out: ‘Leave me alive, children, Snow-white, Rose-red, Will you beat your wooer dead?’
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

“Ay,” said Porthos, “if we cannot leave the camp, our lackeys may.”
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Such has hitherto been the rapid progress of that country in wealth, population, and improvement, that in the course of little more than a century, perhaps, the produce of the American might exceed that of the British taxation.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

I assented to the justness of her remonstrance, and desired she would assist me with her advice and direction: upon which it was concerted between us, that for the present I should be contented with her telling Narcissa that, in the course of her inquiries, she could only learn my name: and that, if, in a day or two, I could fall upon no other method of being introduced to her mistress, she would deliver a letter from me, on pretence of consulting her happiness: and say that I met her in the streets, and bribed her to this piece of service.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

With this she cried out, ‘Let me go!
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

1635-69 21 causeth] maketh H40 , P 23-4 Who can of love more free gift make Then to loves self, for loves owne sake H39 , H40 , P ( but H39 has to love in 23 )
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

The study of the growth of free ideas is now in the days of our democracy the most important feature of Philippine history; hitherto this history has consisted of little more than lists of governors, their term of office, and of the recital of such incidents as were considered to redound to the glory of Spain, or could be so twisted and misrepresented as to make them appear to do so.
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

Trenck, tortured by hunger in the redoubt at Magdeburg, likewise saw himself surrounded by wonderful meals, and George Back, who took part in Franklin's first expedition, dreamed regularly and consistently of luxurious meals when, as a result of terrible privations, he was nearly dead of hunger."
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

Mustard poultices are made of the powder, bread crumbs, and water; or of one part of mustard to two of flour; or, especially for children, of linseed meal, mixed with a little of the powder, or having some of the powder slightly sprinkled on the surface.
— from Enquire Within Upon Everything The Great Victorian Domestic Standby by Robert Kemp Philp

"Would you take a chance on letting me sit up front to-night?"
— from A Thousand Degrees Below Zero by Murray Leinster

Pollen and van Dam, on the colours of Lemur macaco.
— from The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin

Catherine then hatched the conspiracy of la Mole and Coconnas, in which the Duc d'Alençon had a hand; and he, when he became Duc d'Anjou on his brother's being made King, lent himself very readily to his mother's views, and displayed an ambition which was encouraged by his sister Marguerite, Queen of Navarre.
— from The Works of Honoré de Balzac: About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita, and Other Stories by Honoré de Balzac

It reaches its individual end, wheresoever the close of life may overtake it.
— from The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus A new rendering based on the Foulis translation of 1742 by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

They really cheapen the midday meal to many who would otherwise make it at hotels and restaurants, and, so far as they contribute to the spread of the afternoon-tea habit, they actually lessen the cost of living: many guests can now be fobbed off with tea who must once have been asked to lunch."
— from Imaginary Interviews by William Dean Howells

_#_Industrial production: growth rate 14% (1990 est.); accounts for almost 27% of GDP _#_Electricity: 7,270,000 kW capacity; 29,000 million kWh produced, 530 kWh per capita (1990) _#_Industries: tourism is the largest source of foreign exchange; textiles and garments, agricultural processing, beverages, tobacco, cement, other light manufacturing, such as jewelry; electric appliances and components, integrated circuits, furniture, plastics; world's second-largest tungsten producer and third-largest tin producer _#_Agriculture: accounts for 15% of GNP and 62% of labor force; leading producer and exporter of rice and cassava (tapioca); other crops—rubber, corn, sugarcane, coconuts, soybeans; except for wheat, self-sufficient in food; fish catch of 2.8 million tons (1989) _#_Illicit drugs: a minor producer, major illicit trafficker of heroin, particularly from Burma and Laos, and cannabis for the international drug market; eradication efforts have reduced the area of cannabis cultivation and shifted some production to neighboring countries; opium poppy cultivation has been affected by eradication efforts _#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $870 million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-88), $8.1 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $19 million _#_Currency: baht (plural—baht); 1 baht (B) = 100 satang _#_Exchange rates: baht (B) per US$1—25.224 (January 1991), 25.585 (1990), 25.702 (1989), 25.294 (1988), 25.723 (1987), 26.299 (1986), 27.159 (1985) _#_Fiscal year: 1 October-30 September _*
— from The 1991 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

If Mr. Punch may exert his privilege of turning abruptly to grave from gay, the claim may be allowed on behalf of the youngest generation, already remembered in the chronicle of last month.
— from Mr. Punch's History of the Great War by Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves

At half-past nine, De Mouy donned a cuirass, of which the strength had been more than once tested; over this he buttoned a silken doublet, buckled on his sword, stuck his pistols in his belt, and covered the whole with the counterpart of La Mole's famous crimson mantle.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various