THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF TOAD The front door of the hollow tree faced eastwards, so Toad was called at an early hour; partly by the bright sunlight streaming in on him, partly by the exceeding coldness of his toes, which made him dream that he was at home in bed in his own handsome room with the Tudor window, on a cold winter’s night, and his bedclothes had got up, grumbling and protesting they couldn’t stand the cold any longer, and had run downstairs to the kitchen fire to warm themselves; and he had followed, on bare feet, along miles and miles of icy stone-paved passages, arguing and beseeching them to be reasonable.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

I have geliebt und gelebet, as the girl in 'Wallenstein' says.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Then came the Word of God again, and said to them, "O Adam, get up, go and bring the two figs here.
— from The First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Hayes Platt

Note 16 ( return ) [ Some of the first converts were baptized ten or twelve times, for the sake of the white garment usually given at this ceremony.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

He should have gone up garret at once.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

Plato, in the civil regimen that he models according to his own fancy, leaves to it the decision of several things of very great importance, and will, amongst other things, that marriages should be appointed by lot; attributing so great importance to this accidental choice as to ordain that the children begotten in such wedlock be brought up in the country, and those begotten in any other be thrust out as spurious and base; yet so, that if any of those exiles, notwithstanding, should, peradventure, in growing up give any good hope of himself, he might be recalled, as, also, that such as had been retained, should be exiled, in case they gave little expectation of themselves in their early growth.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Without fully understanding what was happening to him, Siddhartha found himself being dragged away by the maid, brought into a garden-house avoiding the direct path, being given upper garments as a gift, led into the bushes, and urgently admonished to get himself out of the grove as soon as possible without being seen.
— from Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Íya nang gitubílan ug gás ang sugà, He has already poured kerosene into the lamp.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Accordingly, whoever will lay aside malignant obstinacy, and consider these things, shall be assured that all these blessed and immortal spirits, who do not envy us (for if they envied they were not blessed), but rather love us, and desire us to be as blessed as themselves, look on us with greater pleasure, and give us greater assistance, when we join them in worshipping one God, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, than if we were to offer to themselves sacrifice and worship.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

The Cossack got up groaning, and went to his saddle to get a knife.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

It is advisable not to have them sandpapered, as the very coarse sandpaper generally used, gives a bad surface for finishing.
— from Mission Furniture: How to Make It, Part 1 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor

"We like to hear about England, of how you have to take off your shoes and put on slippers in the schoolroom, of how you can't walk out without your governess or some one older and all about not having sweet potatoes nor corn, and of how tomatoes are grown under glass and all those ways that are so different from ours.
— from Three Little Cousins by Amy Ella Blanchard

like him how many more Lie cold on Rio Grande's shore; How many green, unnoted graves Are bordered by those turbid waves!
— from Graham's Magazine Vol. XXXII No. 2. February 1848 by Various

"Only some few, more upon their owne guilty suspicion than our plaine intention, thinking themselves toucht at that verse of Momus : "Dixi et quem dederat cursum fortuna peregi, laboured to raise an hissing, but it was soon smothered, and the whole company in the end gave us good applause and departed very well pleased.
— from Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries by W. F. (William Francis) Dawson

It was hard to give up gracefully, and he dropped rather dejectedly into a chair.
— from A Year in a Yawl A True Tale of the Adventures of Four Boys in a Thirty-foot Yawl by Russell Doubleday

Every one of them has a supply of ground up grain, and I want some of it.
— from Camp Venture: A Story of the Virginia Mountains by George Cary Eggleston