When the physician came to the sick girl's bed, he saw Death by her feet.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

Hápit na mamatay, piru wà gihápun muangka ang ugis, The white cock was nearly dead, but he didn’t desist.† angkab v
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

His mother's sister made a bad match—a Pole, I think—lost herself—at any rate was disowned by her family.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

I ran there, and throwing off the little I had on, I lay down beside her, and began feeling her private parts.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

Now that I think of it, I have a wonderful wine here, sent me from Olympus, of which I am told Apollo drinks before he sings to the high gods.
— from The Aesop for Children With pictures by Milo Winter by Aesop

I was so much more impressed by the man's manner than by the substance of his speech, which was, however, corroborated by the other poor fellows stretched around me, that I passed over to where the drummer lay, with his drum beside him.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

French authors in particular, and great admirers of Buonaparte (Vaudancourt, Chambray, Se'gur), have blamed him decidedly because he did not drive the Russian Army completely off the field, and use his last reserves to scatter it, because then what was only a lost battle would have been a complete rout.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

Soames arrived on the stroke of time, and took his seat alongside the Board, who, in a row, each Director behind his own ink-pot, faced their Shareholders.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

It had been part of Nelson's prayer that the British fleet might be distinguished by humanity in the victory which he expected.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

Law, Doctor, don't I know it?' Josh used to reply when my father urged him to break off a habit that was making a shaky old man of him at sixty; 'don't I know it's a dretful bad habit; but then you see a body must have somethin' to be a-chawin' on.'
— from Miss Elliot's Girls Stories of Beasts, Birds, and Butterflies by Mary Spring Corning

Anderson thought it sounded like the last words of the Psalter, ' omnis spiritus laudet Dominum ,' but he could not be sure.
— from Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James

"And so I dared not tell you," Grizel concluded calmly; "I am not frightened at you, but I was frightened you would hurt my dear darling mamma," and she went and stood defiantly between him and her mother.
— from Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

The contrast between the ponderous mass, and the tender flush of Autumn dawn behind him, filled him with pleasurable admiration, and his eye followed a flock of pigeons, which for some few minutes soared to and fro above the great building and then, with sudden swiftness, flew across the road.
— from Quintus Claudius: A Romance of Imperial Rome. Volume 1 by Ernst Eckstein

"'He (Wilkinson) intimated that Lieutenant Pike had been dispatched by his orders ; that the plan was his own, not emanating from the Government, but assented to.'"
— from The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Volume 1 (of 3) To Headwaters of the Mississippi River Through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, During the Years 1805-6-7. by Zebulon Montgomery Pike

D: Brodie House, Scotland, 1800, (Sowerby), male, adult.[a] E: Overstrand, England, 1892, (Southwell), female, adult.
— from The Beaked Whales of the Family Ziphiidae An Account of the Beaked Whales of the Family Ziphiidae in the Collection of the United States Museum... by Frederick W. (Frederick William) True

"Thank you," smiled the Girl, sweeping the money into the drawer, but her manner showed plainly that it was not an unusual thing for the patrons of The Polka to refuse to accept the change.
— from The Girl of the Golden West by David Belasco

She was completely under Harriet’s spell, and never more so than at the present moment when Harriet dangled before her so tempting a bait.
— from The Little School-Mothers by L. T. Meade

Fire may destroy, consume, devour, but has no power to reduce to 'nothing.'
— from The Eureka Stockade by Raffaello Carboni