And as she had walked the whole day and not eaten one mouthful, and hunger tormented her, she thought, "Ah, if I were but inside, that I might eat of the fruit, else must I die of hunger!"
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

Every experiment in living qualifies the initial possibilities of life, and the moralist would reckon without his host if he did not allow for the change which forced exercise makes in instinct, adjusting it more or less to extant conditions originally, perhaps, unwelcome.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

The machine was operated for eighteen months in the show window
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Now, to most of us religion comes in a still further way that makes a veto on our active faith even more illogical.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

If they can get but a relic of some saint, the Virgin Mary's picture, idols or the like, that city is for ever made, it needs no other maintenance.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

But of all the consequences of the victory, none was more grateful than plenty of fresh water, after we had languished five weeks on the allowance of a purser's quart per day for each man in the Torrid Zone, where the sun was vertical, and the expense of bodily fluid so great, that a gallon of liquor could scarce supply the waste of twenty-four hours; especially as our provision consisted of putrid salt beef, to which the sailors gave the name of Irish horse; salt pork, of New England, which, though neither fish nor flesh, savoured of both; bread from the same country, every biscuit whereof, like a piece of clockwork, moved by its own internal impulse, occasioned by the myriads of insects that dwelt within it; and butter served out by the gill, that tasted like train oil thickened with salt.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

The use of a separate shield for each marriage is the method that I would strongly advocate, but as a knowledge of past observances must be had fully, if one is to read aright the records of the tombs, I recite what the rules are:— (1)
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

“Yes, but the fire,” ejaculated Mordaunt; “I have lighted it.” “Ten thousand devils!” cried Groslow, rushing to the hatchway; “perhaps there is still time to save us.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

On the 27th they took a Rhode Island Sloop, Captain Pike , and all his Men were obliged to go aboard the Pyrate; but the Mate being a grave sober Man, and not inclinable to stay, they told him, he should have his Discharge, and that it should be immediately writ on his Back; whereupon he was sentenced to receive ten Lashes from every Man in the Ship, which was rigorously put in Execution.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

I had been ravished with her first appearance, which far exceeded my imagination, and my faculties were so disordered by this address, that I answered her compliment with the most awkward confusion.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

"There is a bunk for every man in the crew," said one.
— from The First Capture; or, Hauling Down the Flag of England by Harry Castlemon

He had come in force, determined to prove to the rebels that they had a stronger man than Sir James Tillie to deal with, and he had failed even more ignominiously.
— from Two Sides of the Face: Midwinter Tales by Arthur Quiller-Couch

"Herr Frank, excuse me; I have something to say to you.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870 by Various

A roaring echo had repeated after him and again repeated the cry which escaped from every mouth: “Innocent!
— from Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon by Jules Verne

It is from thirty-six to forty English miles in length, and from nine to sixteen miles in width.
— from The Norwegian Fjords by A. Heaton (Alfred Heaton) Cooper

But now and then I am seized with a desire to improve my mind, expand my faculties, elevate my ideas—and all that sort of thing—and in this proper disposition I go to the British Museum: which I find shut.
— from Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

Altho it cannot formulate what it feels, the multitude has no relish for extreme measures; it may be making up its mind to turn toward either anarchy or socialism; but it means to move very slowly and it refuses to be hurried.
— from Inquiries and Opinions by Brander Matthews

Fifty years later the Acacian schism springs in like manner from the ambition of its author in the same chair, and the names of four successors, Fravitas, Euphemius, Macedonius II, and Timotheus are struck from the diptychs of their own church, when the schism was terminated under Pope Hormisdas.
— from Peter's Rock in Mohammed's Flood, from St. Gregory the Great to St. Leo III by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies