XXXIII If truth in hearts that perish Could move the powers on high, I think the love I bear you Should make you not to die.
— from A Shropshire Lad by A. E. (Alfred Edward) Housman

do what we will, They have their payment, cure or kill.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

It is recorded, in the Gazetteer of Malabar, that “the Mannāns, a makkattāyam caste of South Malabar, apparently identical with the marumakkattāyam Vannāns of the north, are a caste of washermen; and their services are indispensable to the higher castes in certain purificatory ceremonies when they have to present clean cloths (māttu).
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

Hablóse de la tropa y de la misión que traía a Orbajosa, en cuyo tratado el señor Penitenciario halló tema para condenar la tiránica conducta del Gobierno, y, sin saber cómo, nombraron a Pepe Rey.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

"Why, madam, you've never been in bed this blessed night," burst out Tantripp, looking first at the bed and then at Dorothea's face, which in spite of bathing had the pale cheeks and pink eyelids of a mater dolorosa.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

I have taken peculiar care of her education, and as her mind has developed I have put her on her guard against all prejudices, with the exception of that which bids a woman keep herself intact for her future husband.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

At the Renaissance and the German club he used always to be a little drunk, to spend a lot of money on women, patiently put up with all their tricks—for instance, when Vanda poured the beer on his head, he only smiled and shook his finger at her—but now he looked dull and sleepy; he had the pompous, chilly expression of a superior, and he was chewing something.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Really exquisite stitchery was put into the graceful honeysuckle, the pansy, carnation, and rose clusters which decorated the dresses.
— from Chats on Old Lace and Needlework by Emily Leigh Lowes

I wish when I'm a man and rich and proud, She'd see me, tall and handsome then, and be Blamed sorry that she didn't wait for me, And that she'd hear the people cheerin' loud When I went past, and down there in the crowd I'd see her lookin' at me sorrowf'ly.
— from Love Sonnets of an Office Boy by Samuel E. (Samuel Ellsworth) Kiser

They wanted to be shown the sort of thing, that, with a little laughter and no tears, might suitably happen to perfectly commonplace, undistinguished (though not indistinguishable) persons, and in this comedy of suburban villadom, with curates and stockbrokers and churchwardens behaving naturally and about as humorously as they might be expected to behave without straining themselves, he felt sure that he held in his hand a potential success on a large scale.
— from Thorley Weir by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

From the grotesque resemblance to a grasshopper which the craft bore when her spars were set, and from the fact that she might be said to move forward in a series of hops, the practice came to be called 'grasshoppering.'"
— from North Dakota: A Guide to the Northern Prairie State by Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of North Dakota

“Quick, Bel, or he will tear him to pieces!” cried Dallas.
— from To Win or to Die: A Tale of the Klondike Gold Craze by George Manville Fenn

The English judges early held that protection "could not depend upon the form of the publication"; "that a composition on a single sheet might well be a book within the meaning of the legislature"; and that "any composition, whether large or small, is a book within the meaning of this act."
— from Copyright: Its History and Its Law by R. R. (Richard Rogers) Bowker

Amidst all the fond hopes the parents cherished for their new-born babe, little did they imagine to what a destiny the great Creator had appointed him.
— from Allopathy and Homoeopathy Before the Judgment of Common Sense! by Frederick Hiller

He then ordered him to choose the best horses in his stable, and himself took particular care that nothing should be wanting.
— from Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights by E. Dixon