On the fifth day she died.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
At that moment Leo fired, the bullet went right down her open mouth and out at the back of her neck, and down she dropped, with a splash, dead.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard
Et puisque voilà la chose dite, et pour ne pas passer éventuellement pour un bonimenteur, je tiens, à qui voudrait faire le geste qu'ils attendent, les statistiques de fréquentation du site de Rubriques à Bac pour continuer plus vite l'aventure africaine.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert
The same month of July, Nicholas Hall, bricklayer, and Christopher Waid, linendraper, of Dartford, suffered death, condemned by Maurice, bishop of Rochester, about the last day of June, 1555.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe
“Let me ask you, Konstantin Dmitrievitch,” said Darya Alexandrovna, smiling her kindly and rather mocking smile, “why is it you are angry with Kitty?” “I?
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
"She had a very earnest temperament, and what she did she did with all her heart.
— from Life of Father Hecker by Walter Elliott
In a carefully prepared monograph on "Endocannibalismus," Vienna, 1896, Dr Rudolf S. Steinmetz brings together a great body of evidence tending to show "dass eine hohe Wahrscheinlichkeit dafür spricht den Endocannibalismus (indigenous anthropophagy) als ständige Sitte der Urmenschen, sowie der niedrigen Wilden anzunehmen" (pp. 59, 60).
— from Man, Past and Present by A. H. (Augustus Henry) Keane
As they started across the street both girls were thinking deeply, so deeply that for once they did not use their customary caution.
— from My Queen: A Weekly Journal for Young Women. Issue 4, October 20, 1900 Marion Marlowe's Noble Work; or, The Tragedy at the Hospital by Lurana Sheldon
Dey say de people are catched dere when dey are young.
— from The Beaux-Stratagem: A comedy in five acts by George Farquhar
"Oh, sweet little darling!" cried Margaret; "I do so dote on that child—little angel!"
— from The Younger Sister: A Novel, Volumes 1-3 by Mrs. (Catherine-Anne Austen) Hubback
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