The third day the messenger came back and said, "I have not found a single name; but as I came to a high mountain near the edge of a forest, where foxes and hares say good night to each other, I saw there a little house, and before the door a fire was burning, and round this fire a very curious little Man was dancing on one leg, and shouting: "'To-day I stew, and then I'll bake, To-morrow
— from Grimm's Fairy Stories by Wilhelm Grimm

I determined to communicate the situation in which I was placed to Mr. Dawson, of Oak Lodge.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

And yet, I sinned herein, O Lord God, the Creator and Disposer of all things in nature, of sin the Disposer only, O Lord my God, I sinned in transgressing the commands of my parents and those of my masters.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

From that contest, Sir, although it may unsettle men’s minds and excite their feelings, and render them incapable for the discharge of the everyday duties of ordinary life; from that contest, sir, I will never shrink, till I have set my heel upon the Eatanswill Independent .
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Oft our displeasures, to ourselves unjust, Destroy our friends, and after weep their dust; Our own love waking cries to see what's done, While shameful hate sleeps out the afternoon.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

" "Of that Edward Randolph," exclaimed Captain Lincoln, "who obtained the repeal of the first provincial charter, under which our forefathers had enjoyed almost democratic privileges—he that was styled the arch-enemy of New England, and whose memory is still held in detestation as the destroyer of our liberties?"
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Good heavens!" said the Jew to himself, "that man is speaking disrespectfully of our lord the King, I will run and inform, and then I shall get a reward, and he will be punished as well."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

And so—he groaned aloud as his mistake revealed itself to him in those long, unhappy hours—he had lost the dear opportunity of leading her aright; for he contemplated but one possible issue of such an attempt on his part; he had scorned her entreaty when she came to him for understanding of a mystery that was killing her, and he had driven her to take up the study alone, with the help of her father confessor, who knew but one side of the vexed question, and that not the side of Venice!
— from A Golden Book of Venice by Turnbull, Lawrence, Mrs.

A tacit agreement had evidently been come to, that she was incapable of discussing 'the Land' or those other subjects such as the French murder, the Russian opera, the Chinese pictures, and the doings of one, L—— , whose fate was just then in the air, so that she sat alone.
— from The Freelands by John Galsworthy

He expressing a surprise at this offer, the negroes informed him [272] there were only twelve persons on the island, and that the goats multiplied so fast as to become exceedingly troublesome, for instead of being hard to be caught, they followed them about with a degree of obstinacy, like other domestic animals.
— from Buffon's Natural History. Volume 05 (of 10) Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c by Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

They served, in short, all the purposes of the inscriptions on the tombs of our day, or of labels for establishing the identity of the dead.
— from The Ceramic Art A Compendium of The History and Manufacture of Pottery and Porcelain by Jennie J. Young

When we conversed together, the words died on our lips, and our smiles had the sadness of a sob.
— from Acadian Reminiscences : The True Story of Evangeline by Felix Voorhies

The other 34 texts comprise the quotations which are made in the discourses of our Lord, and they are sometimes called context-quotations or cyclic quotations, as coming in the cycle of discourses.
— from The Books of the New Testament by Leighton Pullan

Here is no idle sorrow , no poor grief For any day or object left behind— For time is counted precious , and herein Is such complete abandonment of Self That tears turn into rainbows , and enhance The beauty of the land where all is fair .
— from Poems of Cheer by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The time has come when we must produce more beef, butter, wool, and pork to the acre or sink beneath the wave of competition that is driving over our land.
— from Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians by William K. (William King) David

then Prince of Wales; we find him afterwards adhering to the interest of his Royal Master, for when his Majesty was driven out of London, by the threatnings and tumults of the discontented rabble, he followed him, and on the 13th of September, 1642, he received the honour of knighthood.
— from The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II. by Theophilus Cibber

She never would know it, and I should carry the remembrance of it with me into the grave, and a rose perhaps grow out of my dust, as a brier did out of Lord Lovers, in memory of that immortal moment!
— from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes