The little princess got up, rang for the maid, and hurriedly and merrily began to devise and carry out a plan of how Princess Mary should be dressed.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

213 Our own country has produced many students of Masonic symbolism, who have thoroughly grasped this noble thought, and treated it with eloquence and erudition.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

" "He means his poor mamma," said the old man.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

The King said, "Your song has pleased me so well that I will give you my daughter there, to wife."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

And hiding her face in her hands, Princess Mary sank into the arms of the doctor, who held her up.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

I could understand, as I saw the fury and the passion of the man, that it was no groundless or unnatural terror which had possessed Major Sholto when he first learned that the injured convict was upon his track.
— from The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

Muléykeh rides up furiously; but instead of striking the thief from his saddle, he boasts about his peerless mare, saying that if a certain spot on her neck were touched with the rein, she could never be overtaken.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

If they will be so good as to teach me and if we have money enough to do as we have planned, my studies this year will be English, English Literature of the Elizabethan period, Latin and German.... TO MR.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

He preached, made speeches, read for us, explained to us, &c....
— from The Life of Abraham Lincoln, from His Birth to His Inauguration as President by Ward Hill Lamon

Emile found her lying on the bed, her hands clenched by her side, her proud mouth set in bitter lines.
— from The Hippodrome by Rachel Hayward

If the Church tries to carry all the ignorance and all the trumpery of the ages as a part of her precious message she will break down under the load.
— from What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul by Richard La Rue Swain

Soon the chief was given his meat, simply enough composed of still fresh meat, roe smashed up with wild fruit to acidify it, and a bowl of hominy, or Indian corn hasty pudding, made savoury with bear's fat and flavoured with meat powder and a dash of rock salt.
— from The Red River Half-Breed: A Tale of the Wild North-West by Gustave Aimard

[Pg 346] Fine Plaster, A, 124 Fox and Geese Play, 73 Fox and Rabbit Drinking Proposition, 111 Frightened Away from a Chicken-Roost, 95 Going to be Good Slaves, 101 Good-by, Wife!, 148 Goosie-Gander Play Rhyme, 75 Half Way Doings, 120 Hawk and Chickens Play, 74 He Paid Me Seven (Parody), 122 Hear-say, 114 How to Get to Glory Land, 96 How to Please a Preacher, 117 I Walked the Road, 139 I'll Eat when I'm Hungry, 114 I'll Get You, Rabbit!, 116
— from Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study by Thomas Washington Talley

All I can say is, that my grandfather made 20,000 ducats as a manufacturer; that my father doubled his capital in trade; and that I bought an estate which, in my tenants' hands, pays me six per cent.
— from The Roman Question by Edmond About

But then he suddenly reassumed his obsequious cringing mien and added: "I tell you what, your honour, procure me some petty office at Count Hátszegi's.
— from The Poor Plutocrats by Mór Jókai

"Mr. Cullen never so much as hinted paying me," said I. "Well, Mr. Gordon," said Baldwin, suavely, "we'll show you that we can be more liberal.
— from The Great K. & A. Robbery by Paul Leicester Ford

[Pg 105] Of all the four seaside places discussed in this chapter Bude has perhaps most strongly its own character.
— from Cornwall by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton