Now to thy lord I bid thee go: Thy pleasant tale has charmed me so: One thing alone I needs must pray, Before me first thyself array: Here in thy heavenly raiment shine, And glad, dear love, these eyes of mine.”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

But between them was the compact of his flesh with hers, in the hand-clasp.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

He had let out a reef in his belt and, without speaking, and although he was a little uneasy at a wine stain on his white waistcoat, he ceased eating in order to take up his glass and hold it to his mouth as long as possible, to enjoy the taste slowly.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

' Wegg reflected a moment, and then said: 'Mr Venus, will you be so good as hand me over that same dockyment?' 'Certainly, sir,' replied Venus, handing it to him with much politeness.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

She would not give him time to reply, but hurrying instantly to her husband, called out as she entered the library, “Oh! Mr. Bennet, you are wanted immediately; we are all in an uproar.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

That my mother had fled, that a person was now at our door who was empowered to convey to her the fullest assurances of affectionate protection and forgiveness if he could possibly find her, and that I was sought for to accompany him in the hope that my entreaties might prevail upon her if his failed.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

This is the thing that troubles me, for I cannot forget Carcosa where black stars hang in the heavens; where the shadows of men's thoughts lengthen in the afternoon, when the twin suns sink into the lake of Hali; and my mind will bear for ever the memory of the Pallid Mask.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

I was thinking that, if we wanted any help in the house while he is here, we could perhaps get Mary Higgins.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

In this hall is the high-seat, which is called Hlidskjalf, and when Alfather sits in this seat, he sees over all the world.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

She was a young girl lately had in to help the housemaid.
— from Johnny Ludlow, Fifth Series by Wood, Henry, Mrs.

First the grey creatures huddled in the high corner, then one of them descended and took shelter by the growing corn lowest down.
— from The Trespasser by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

You may remain on here in this house, which has been your home, indefinitely, and it will be maintained for you in the manner to which you have always been accustomed.”
— from The Crevice by William J. Burns

Tradition had it that here the holy Numa had built the hut which contained the hearth-fire of Rome,—the divine spark which now shed its radiance over the nations.
— from A Friend of Cæsar: A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. by William Stearns Davis

He might be held in that huge medicine lodge, and the boy's resolution strengthened to the temper of steel.
— from The Quest of the Four: A Story of the Comanches and Buena Vista by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

If this were to be even a possible attitude for Great Britain, the French Government had intimated to him that it was in its opinion desirable that conversation should take place between the General Staff of France and the newly created General Staff of Great Britain, as to the form which military co-operation in resisting invasion of the northern portions of France might best assume.
— from Before the War by Haldane, R. B. Haldane (Richard Burdon Haldane), Viscount

In this matter, he is so conscious of the purity of his intentions, that he is willing to submit it to the verdict
— from Life and Times of Her Majesty Caroline Matilda, Vol. 2 (of 3) Queen of Denmark and Norway, and Sister of H. M. George III. of England by Wraxall, Lascelles, Sir

I then delivered him over to an orderly serjeant who was following me, with directions to conduct him to the Town-hall, and deliver him into the hands of those he should find there to receive him; and then turning to the officers and magistrates who accompanied me, I begged they would take notice, that I had myself, WITH MY OWN HANDS, arrested the first beggar we had met; and I requested them not only to follow my example themselves, by arresting all the beggars they should meet with, but that they would also endeavour to persuade others, and particularly the officers, non-commissioned officers, and soldiers of the garrison, that it was by no means derogatory to their character as soldiers, or in anywise disgraceful to them, to assist in so USEFUL and LAUDABLE an undertaking.
— from Essays; Political, Economical, and Philosophical — Volume 1 by Rumford, Benjamin, Graf von

The blade, in such cases, is secured by wedging it tightly, with sometimes the addition of a lashing of thong through a hole in the haft and round the heel of the blade.
— from Ethnological results of the Point Barrow expedition Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1887-1888, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1892, pages 3-442 by John Murdoch

After the burial came the funeral feast held in the house where the deceased had lived, or provided at the village inn.
— from Rustic Speech and Folk-Lore by Elizabeth Mary Wright