“There you have it, now go to hell,” said the rich one, and threw the ham at him.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson
At daybreak all the raw-eaters, seven hundred in number, got up and went as usual to their hunting and predatory excursions, and along with them went the old Rakshasi, after touching [ 80 ] Keshavati with the silver stick.
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day
Loe, in yon path which store of straw'd flowers graceth, The sober virgin paceth; Except my sight faile, 'tis no other thing; 35 Weep not nor blush, here is no griefe nor shame, To day put on perfection, and a womans name .
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne
He is never guilty of a sad thought but a merry one is twin-born with it.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
'First by means of letters from the kindly priest whom we met in the camp of armed men; but he is now gone to his own country, and I sent the money to his brother.'
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling
To such a conception—love of evil for its own sake—the word Devil is limited in this work; Demon is applied to beings whose harmfulness is not gratuitous, but incidental to their own satisfactions.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway
“He is now gone into the army,” she added; “but I am afraid he has turned out very wild.”
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
dì tagáag rispunsibilidad, Your child will never develop common sense if he is never given responsibilities.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
By dint of reflecting on what he had to do, and reviving the train of thought which night had interrupted, Nicholas gradually summoned up his utmost energy, and when the morning was sufficiently advanced for his purpose, had no thought but that of using it to the best advantage.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
Attempts have been made to reproduce galls by injecting the juices of similar galls into the tissue, but as yet without success, and this may point to the co-operation of mechanical irritation during the hypertrophy in normal gall-formation.
— from Disease in Plants by H. Marshall (Harry Marshall) Ward
"If you mean the hawk," said Toto, "he is not gone; and what is more, he isn't going, for your master has asked him to stay the rest of the winter.
— from Toto's Merry Winter by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
Have I not given all I possess of wealth to save your life?
— from The Story of Old Fort Loudon by Mary Noailles Murfree
He is not generally religious; but during divine service is as orderly as a deacon.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 by Various
“You could neutralize the protection he is now giving to the Marquis du Rouvre, who is threatened with arrest.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac
Doctor (coolly and slowly).—But he is not going away forever.
— from So Runs the World by Henryk Sienkiewicz
He is now got disgusted with the affairs of public life, and addicts himself very much to "turning ivory," as the more eligible employment.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 07 by Thomas Carlyle
I hope he is not going to do anything desperate.
— from The Unknown Wrestler by H. A. (Hiram Alfred) Cody
At the moment when we find the illustrious soldier called to the capital to receive [276] the real laurel he had nobly earned, he seems to pause and ask himself if he is not going to take the reward which in part belongs to others.
— from Our Standard-Bearer; Or, The Life of General Uysses S. Grant by Oliver Optic
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