Put on my ragged clothes, wander about the world for seven years, and get to know what misery is, take no money, but if thou art hungry ask compassionate hearts for a bit of bread; in this way thou wilt reach heaven."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

Blind anger rose in her heart against the prisoners; she would have been only too glad to kill them all, and so silence them.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

"I've got the key to my castle in the air; but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen," observed Jo mysteriously.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

It is not wholly irrespective of our personal feelings that we record HIM as the Mentor of our young Telemachus, for it is good to know that our town produced the founder of the latter's fortunes.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Tom and me was to sleep in the same room and bed; so, being tired, we bid good-night and went up to bed right after supper, and clumb out of the window and down the lightning-rod, and shoved for the town; for I didn’t believe anybody was going to give the king and the duke a hint, and so if I didn’t hurry up and give them one they’d get into trouble sure.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

As it is not very difficult to make the acquaintance of these priestesses of pleasure and dissipation, I soon got to know several of them.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Javert replied: “When are you going to kill me?” “Wait.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

But when her father left them she made ready for what was the chief thing needful—to go to Kitty and console her.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

go to kill thyself, if thine insanity passing off thou can’st understand, that thy most beloved Saralota was murdered by thee.
— from Nil Darpan; or, The Indigo Planting Mirror, A Drama. Translated from the Bengali by a Native. by Dinabandhu Mitra

Meanwhile the Boers had taken up a formidable position on the right—on the well-entrenched height called by the gunners Three Knoll Hill, to describe the three hills, Terrace, Railway, and Pieters, that formed the entire position—while on the left they plied their activities from Grobler’s Kloof.
— from South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 4 (of 8) From Lord Roberts' Entry into the Free State to the Battle of Karree by Louis Creswicke

They don't mind telling him it's an African proposition of new and nourishing food, a regular godsend to the human race, but they got to keep quiet until I get my options bought up
— from Ma Pettengill by Harry Leon Wilson

So, as I think you will be as glad to know this as I am, I write again over the Atlantic.
— from Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble (1871-1883) by Edward FitzGerald

[106] It is the last note that gives the key to popular feeling about the scramble for territory.
— from The Fruits of Victory A Sequel to The Great Illusion by Norman Angell

As the dromedaries are driven up to the king’s storehouses and the bundles of camphor are unloaded, and the cinnamon sacks and the boxes of spices are opened, the purveyors of the palace discovered, so the Bible relates: “Of spices, great abundance; neither was there any such spices as the Queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.”
— from Bible Characters by Dwight Lyman Moody

Nothing was to be heard but the gurgle of the water at the bow, and the monotonous beat of the pistons, as we drove steadily through the fog at a good twelve knots.
— from Gun running for Casement in the Easter rebellion, 1916 by Karl Spindler

You're just the sweetest old darling in the world, and I'd go to Kamschatka with you gladly—in fact, anywhere—anywhere—except South Africa.
— from The Odds And Other Stories by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

John What! going to keep on working?
— from Why Marry? by Jesse Lynch Williams

"I do not know," he said to himself, "when I must leave my seat and go to kneel before the priest; I know that the congregation should communicate after the celebrant; but at what moment exactly ought I to move?
— from En Route by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

I shall be very much obliged to you for an extract of the beginning of each, and of the conclusion, to see if we can come at a genuine copy, which hath not been mixed with Galfrid or Walter; and should be glad to know if you have met with any British books written in the old letter (called now the Saxon), besides a line or two, in the beginning of the Welsh Charter, in Liber Landavensis, which you sent me; and whether all that charter be not written in the same character, or any thing else in that book.
— from Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards by Evan Evans