The Ogress presently knew the voice of the Queen and her children, and being quite mad that she had been thus deceived, she commanded next morning, by break of day (with a most horrible voice, which made everybody tremble), that they should bring into the middle of the great court a large tub, which she caused to be filled with toads, vipers, snakes, and all sorts of serpents, in order to have thrown into it the Queen and her children, the clerk of the kitchen, his wife and maid; all whom she had given orders should be brought thither with their hands tied behind them.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

iii. 136) remarks that these lines are cited (with some variation, and from memory, as the present play was not printed till 1633) in an epigram on T. Deloney, in Guilpin's SKIALETHEIA OR THE SHADOWE OF TRUTH, 1598,— "LIKE TO THE FATALL OMINOUS RAVEN, WHICH TOLLS THE SICK MAN'S DIRGE WITHIN HIS HOLLOW BEAKE, So every paper-clothed post in Poules To thee, Deloney, mourningly doth speake," &c.] Note 55 ( return )
— from The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe

If Mr. Elton, on his return, made his own indifference as evident and indubitable as she could not doubt he would anxiously do, she could not imagine Harriet's persisting to place her happiness in the sight or the recollection of him.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

V. become small, become smaller; lessen, decrease &c. 36; grow less, dwindle, shrink, contract, narrow, shrivel, collapse, wither, lose flesh, wizen, fall away, waste, wane, ebb; decay &c. (deteriorate) 659. be smaller than, fall short of; not come up to &c. (be inferior)
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

[ nāvis , ship ], naval nāvigium, nāvi´gī , n. ship, boat nāvigō, -āre, -āvī, -ātus [ nāvis , ship , + agō , drive ], sail, cruise nāvis, -is (abl. -ī
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

How great Dionysus must be among you, when the Delian god deems such charms necessary to cure you of your dithyrambic madness!"—To one in this frame of mind, however, an aged Athenian, looking up to him with the sublime eye of Æschylus, might answer: "Say also this, thou curious stranger: what sufferings this people must have undergone, in order to be able to become thus beautiful!
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Ah, then, if she should catch that disease she could not get married.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

As soon as she felt Faye's weight, up went her back again, but down she could not get her head, and the more she pushed down, the harder the spoon of the bit pressed against the roof of her mouth.
— from Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 by Frances Marie Antoinette Mack Roe

For as these were persuaded that the end of all things was to be brought about by the agency of fire, and as it was proved that the comets were not of a fiery nature, it followed that this dreaded stranger could not come charged with any such mission as the destruction of the globe.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. by Various

Anita, showing some little trace of feeling now that Cleek had gone to wash his hands and was no longer there to occupy her thoughts, placed a deep, soft chair near the window, and would not yield until the violet-clad figure of the Page_122
— from Cleek, the Master Detective by Thomas W. Hanshew

"But Dr. Scott could not have been found in time, madame," interposed Dr. Burnham with evident triumph.
— from The Poisoned Pen by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

Such an abstract in -ei may be formd from every adjectiv, hense the great number of these words; e. g., diupei , depth ; laggei , length ; bleiþei , mercy ; mikilei , greatness ; braidei , bredth ; frôdei , wisdom ; hardu-haírtei , hard-hartedness ; drugkanei , drunkenness ; sum can not be referd to corresponding adjs., but they likewise denote a state; e. g., þaúrstei , thirst ; magaþei , maidenhood .
— from A Gothic Grammar, with selections for reading and a glossary by Wilhelm Braune

"You may go, Lavinia," she said, as the old slave lingered to see if her darling enjoyed the dainties; she could not bear that even Viny's faithful eyes should notice the change, if change there was.
— from Rodman the Keeper: Southern Sketches by Constance Fenimore Woolson

Ahora, en el momento presente de nuestra historia, la hallamos sentada junto al pupitre, que es el confidente 20 único de sus planes y el depositario de sus cuentas numéricas con los aldeanos, y de sus cuentas morales con Dios y la sociedad.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

“Here I am, Thad!” shouted a high-pitched voice, and with the words a head appeared above the edge of a deep shell crater not thirty feet away, as Bumpus commenced to laboriously crawl on hands and knees out of the hole.
— from The Boy Scouts Afoot in France; or, With the Red Cross Corps at the Marne by Carter, Herbert, active 1909-1917