The Spanish empire's tint a head, And my auld teethless, Bawtie's dead: The tulyie's teugh 'tween Pitt and Fox, And 'tween our Maggie's twa wee cocks; The tane is game, a bluidy devil, But to the hen-birds unco civil; The tither's something dour o' treadin, But better stuff ne'er claw'd a middin.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

The bride could not overcome her desire and consented, but she mixed a sleeping-draught with the wine her betrothed took at night, which made him fall into a deep sleep, When all had become quiet, the King's daughter crouched down by the door of the bedroom, opened it just a little, and cried, "Drummer, drummer, I pray thee hear!
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

But one day as the queen was walking by the side of the river, at the bottom of the garden, she saw a poor little fish, that had thrown itself out of the water, and lay gasping and nearly dead on the bank.
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

There are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange disappearance of the bride.’ ”
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

He tried to turn a deaf ear to these discussions of the best patterns of long clothes for the coming baby; tried to turn away and avoid seeing the mysterious, endless strips of knitting, the triangles of linen, and so on, to which Dolly attached special importance.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Certainly the discovery of the beverage resulted in the cultivation of the plant in Abyssinia and in Arabia; but its progress was slow until the 15th and 16th centuries, when it appears as intensively carried on in the Yemen district of Arabia.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

For the different dates assigned to the book of Tobit see Dr Westcott’s article Tobit in Smith’s Dictionary of the Bible p. 1525.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Tony was barefooted, and she shivered in her cotton dress and was comfortable only when we were tucked down on the baked earth, in the full blaze of the sun.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

We might suppose that these harsh means of treatment, owing to the elevated character of their supporters, were in good repute; and that a work on this subject would be incomplete without a full detail of them; but a better success without than with them has led me to discontinue their use, and conscientiously speaking of the treatment, I can but manifest my disapprobation of all caustic applications to the urethra or prostatic ducts.
— from Sexual Neuroses by J. T. (James Tyler) Kent

American police know the trick well, and indeed have invented the term “fake-priest” as descriptive of this branch of the great profession of roguery.
— from The Cradle of Mankind; Life in Eastern Kurdistan by Edgar Thomas Ainger Wigram

Asokashtami is observed on the eighth day of the bright fortnight of Chaitra.
— from Cultus Arborum: A Descriptive Account of Phallic Tree Worship by Anonymous

[Pg 70] I then swallowed my stone, and immediately became almost as tiny as my small cousin, having, for my part, wished to be reduced to the height of an inch and a half, thinking that some sort of distinction ought to be preserved in our relative sizes.
— from The Mysterious Shin Shira by G. E. (George Edward) Farrow

Then she looked down over the broad plain.
— from An Egyptian Princess — Volume 06 by Georg Ebers

Wearisome was the morning light to their eyes, which dawned not upon the tented field; they loved better to see the banner of the red dragon of the Britons waving upon some distant height, opposite to which their own standard of the white horse fluttered, than to watch the motion of the trees, or the rustle of the yellow corn, or to hear the bleating and the lowing of "the cattle upon a thousand hills:" to such belonged Penda, the ruler of Mercia.
— from History of the Anglo-Saxons, from the Earliest Period to the Norman Conquest Second Edition by Thomas Miller

Death of the Buddha.
— from The Soul of a People by H. (Harold) Fielding

There is a little cottage on the very edge of the cliff, in that village of Dinard on the Breton coast, which looks across the bay into which the Rance rushes impetuously meeting the great sea-tides—and from which St Servan opposite, St Malo with its walls and towers, all the lip of the bay lined with houses, with fortifications, with bristling masts and sails, show fair in the sunshine.
— from At His Gates: A Novel. Vol. 3 (of 3) by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

A very decided wink and a draw down of the brows cautioned me to silence on that subject; but not before the lady had heard my question, and looked up in his face with an expression that said—‘I’ll hear more of that affair before long.’
— from Arthur O'Leary: His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands by Charles James Lever

They drank off their beer, and sat smoking and talking of other things, until Ferdinand remarked casually: “By the way—about your friend—are his parents still alive?” Klaus was by no means anxious to go into Peer’s family affairs, and answered briefly—No, he thought not.
— from The Great Hunger by Johan Bojer