As cold and all things grim proceeded from Niflheim, so that which bordered on Muspelheim was hot and bright, and Ginungagap was as warm and mild as windless air.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

I am also not unwilling to give money for this purpose; the large Bungalow which I have, can be a good place for a school; moreover, what is more happy than to have the boys of one’s own country to read and write, and study in his own house, this is the true success of wealth and of labour.
— from Nil Darpan; or, The Indigo Planting Mirror, A Drama. Translated from the Bengali by a Native. by Dinabandhu Mitra

The lesson of the old Greek poet fits our case.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

At the feast, Gudrun poured for King Atle in these goblets mead that was mixed with the blood of the youths.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

Mr. Pickwick leads the old lady (who has been very eloquent on the subject of Lady Tollimglower) to the top of a long table; Wardle takes the bottom; the friends arrange themselves on either side; Sam takes his station behind his master’s chair; the laughter and talking cease; Mr. Pickwick, having said grace, pauses for an instant and looks round him.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

There be so many general pardons for ages to come, forty thousand years to come, so many jubilees, so frequent gaol-deliveries out of purgatory for all souls, now living, or after dissolution of the body, so many particular masses daily said in several churches, so many altars consecrated to this purpose, that if a man have either money or friends, or will take any pains to come to such an altar, hear a mass, say so many paternosters, undergo such and such penance, he cannot do amiss, it is impossible his mind should be troubled, or he have any scruple to molest him.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

2 gather palm fronds.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

That was considered a great promotion for me.
— from Mrs. Warren's Profession by Bernard Shaw

I have known a person remarkably generous, humane, moderate, and apparently self-denying, who could not hear even a friend commended, without betraying marks of uneasiness; as if that commendation had implied an odious comparison to his prejudice, and every wreath of praise added to the other’s character, was a garland plucked from his own temples.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

We trust our young friend will take these remarks in good part, for we mean them solely for his benefit.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Next morning, between two and three o’clock, we began to stretch our limbs, and after a few ill-humoured grunts prepared for a start.
— from Hudson Bay by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

His chief delight was in war and tournaments, but he derived great pleasure from hawking and hunting, and had a special joy in chasing down stags on a fleet horse and slaying them with a sword instead of a hunting spear.
— from The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by T. F. (Thomas Frederick) Tout

Accordingly he is obliged to ask them to get provision for themselves, or to lend it , as it were, to him ; though they were already so dissatisfied from not having received their pay.
— from History of Greece, Volume 09 (of 12) by George Grote

Calls upon her attention so soothing, and avocations so various for her time, had answered the great purpose for which originally she had planned them, in almost forcing from her thoughts those sorrows which, if indulged, would have rested in them incessantly.
— from Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 3 by Fanny Burney

"They're going pretty fast," said John, as they marched on; "fast, that is, for men carrying loads."
— from Settlers and Scouts: A Tale of the African Highlands by Herbert Strang

The overwhelming triumph of militant progressive democracy and the simultaneous springing into prominent existence of another great party founded upon and professing the championship of those cardinal principles of popular government which have long been synonymous with progressive democracy, discloses a miraculous growth of progressive conviction, a well-nigh unanimous determination on the part of the people to assume full control of the government which, while over them, is rightfully of and for them, marks a leading epoch in the history of the world's advancement."
— from The Survey, Volume XXX, Number 1, April 5, 1913 by Various

In short, if there be a plain truth fairly deducible from the facts in the case, it is that he was destroyed by a carbonaceous nutriment in too great proportion for his expenditure.
— from Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott

Of course, if you prefer to go to the Spaniards—” Damianus shook his head and, interrupting the burgomaster, answered modestly: “No, sir; I am a native of Utrecht and will gladly pray for the liberty of Holland.”
— from The Burgomaster's Wife — Complete by Georg Ebers

In fact, Miss Georgie painted for herself some very pretty mental pictures, in which the figures of Lisbeth and her ex-lover were always the prominent features.
— from Miss Crespigny by Frances Hodgson Burnett

And this is what they’ve done in secret: “The crown jewels, the bars of gold of the reserve, the great pictures from the Louvre, the antiques of value, including the Venus of Milo, have been packed in cases and loaded on trains under heavy guard.
— from The Maids of Paradise by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers