The old high-road is lost amid cultivated fields; the new one now winds along over covered graves; and soon the railway will come, with its train of carriages, and rush over graves where lie those whose very names are forgoten.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Just then, whether it was the cold of the morning that was now approaching, or that he had eaten something laxative at supper, or that it was only natural (as is most likely), Sancho felt a desire to do what no one could do for him; but so great was the fear that had penetrated his heart, he dared not separate himself from his master by as much as the black of his nail; to escape doing what he wanted was, however, also impossible; so what he did for peace's sake was to remove his right hand, which held the back of the saddle, and with it to untie gently and silently the running string which alone held up his breeches,
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

as the river mad a great bend to the South East we again ascended the high plain and steered our course as streight as we could to the point where I had directed Gass and Sharbono to remain.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

But still the old Adam would not yield, and I never entered the mission house till the utmost need forced me to go and see the Rev. A. Frank.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

I told you to go and see the rabbits every day."
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

That he does not understand that things necessarily have their other side; that he combats evil conditions as if they could be dispensed with, that he will not take the one with the other; that he would fain obliterate and erase the specific character of a thing, of a circumstance, of an age, and of a person, by calling only a portion of their qualities good, and suppressing the remainder.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

scipgyld n. ship-tax, ship-money , Ct. sciphamor m. hammer for giving a signal to rowers , WW.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

I followed his gaze, and saw the reaper emerge from his concealment and run across a field to our left, resheathing his sickle as he hurried along.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

Receive th’ unhappy fugitives to grace, And spare the remnant of a pious race!
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

Now, Sir, if I conduct you home again into this warmer and more luxuriant island, where you perceive the spring-tide of our blood and humours runs high—where we have more ambition, and pride, and envy, and lechery, and other whoreson passions upon our hands to govern and subject to reason—the height of our wit, and the depth of our judgment, you see, are exactly proportioned to the length and breadth of our necessities—and accordingly we have them sent down amongst us in such a flowing kind of decent and creditable plenty, that no one thinks he has any cause to complain.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

If, on the contrary, troubles arose which threatened the welfare of the whole empire, and the sovereign felt called upon to conduct the campaign in person, he would mobilise his guard, and summon the reserves from several provinces or even from all of them.
— from History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 9 (of 12) by G. (Gaston) Maspero

All that part of the foregoing letter which related to its gifted writer's interview with Messrs. Quirk, Gammon, and Snap, Titmouse read in a kind of spasm—he could not draw a breath, and felt a choking sensation coming over him.
— from Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Samuel Warren

[ For general account, see Thiers' "Révolution," chap.
— from Fiat Money Inflation in France: How it Came, What it Brought, and How it Ended by Andrew Dickson White

Rousseau always maintained that the following stanza of Tasso had a direct application to him, and accurately described his feelings and position in the world— “Still, still ’tis mine with grief and shame to rove, A dire example of disastrous love; While keen remorse for ever breaks my rest, And raging furies haunt my conscious breast, The lonely shades with terror must I view, The shades shall every dreadful thought renew: The rising sun shall equal horrors yield, The sun that first the dire event revealed; Still must I view myself with hateful eye, And seek, though vainly, from myself to fly.” 16 Duverger de Haurane , abbot of St. Cyran, regarded as the founder of Port Royal, wrote, in the year 1608, a treatise on suicide, which has, says Voltaire, become one of the scarcest books in Europe.
— from The Anatomy of Suicide by Forbes Winslow

Before the Russians were anywhere near Bavaria, the vanguard of Napoleon's Army of the Channel and the Army of Hanover had crossed North-Western Germany, and seized the roads by which Mack had advanced from Vienna.
— from A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 by Charles Alan Fyffe

Let me go And set those robes in order which best pleased Manasses' living eyes; and let me fill My gown with jewels, such as kindle sight, And have some stinging sweetness in my hair.— Manasses, my Manasses, lost to me, Gone where my love can nothing search, and hidden Behind the vapours of these worldly years, The many years between me and thy death; Thine ears are sealed with immortal blessedness Against our miserable din of living; Through thy pure sense
— from Emblems Of Love by Lascelles Abercrombie

When Easter arrived, she had already planted her garden and stripped the roses of their winter coverings.
— from Little Tom by Václav Tille

'I couldn't get any silk the right colour.'
— from Tenterhooks by Ada Leverson

"Don't you think we haven't got any salt," Tommy replied.
— from Boy Scouts on the Great Divide; Or, The Ending of the Trail by Archibald Lee Fletcher

So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the government, and so to resist force employed for its destruction by force for its preservation.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 5: 1858-1862 by Abraham Lincoln