"and, directly, a table comes up laid out with meat and wine, and everything of the best, much better than we have; and as soon as she has had enough she says: "'Little kid, milk Table, depart!' "and all goes away directly, as I clearly saw.
— from Grimm's Fairy Stories by Wilhelm Grimm

When day broke the youth put the fifty dollars into his pocket, set out on the hard high road, and kept muttering to himself: “If I could only shudder!
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Wherever thou conductest him I too must go, to keep my troth; And if the eye at times should brim, 'Tis human weakness, give me strength
— from Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan by Toru Dutt

Yes, and an impulse of kindness moved the tchinovniks of the Customs also to set aside for him a few cakes of the soap which he had found so excellent for the freshness of the cheeks.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

He used to kiss Mnester, the pantomimic actor, publicly in the theatre; and if any person made the least noise while he was dancing, he would order him to be dragged from his seat, and scourged him with his own hand.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

I do not know what Ts`ao Kung makes these Nine Variations out to be, but it has been suggested that they are connected with the Nine Situations" - of chapt.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

To which doctrine, such as Cyrus and Darius; etc., the Jews' great patrons, seem not to have been very averse, though the entire idolatry of their kingdoms made them generally conceal it.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

77 , 45 Heart's bitterness, control, 30 , 5 Hearts , bad, effect of gold on, 128 , 39; everywhere the same, 274 , 24; fellowship with, to be cultivated, 549 , 12; few, rightly affected to heaven, 154 , 4; full of grief, masked, 117 , 24; great, like great mountains, 252 , 29; hard, how to win, 396 , 45; highest, temper of, 207 , 1; how to win, 70 , 25; in heads, 398 , 35; kind, value of, 163 , 5; kind, more than coronets, 218 , 34; loving, parted, sorrows of, 546 , 27; muffled drums, 18 , 35; not to be alienated, but united, 277 , 25; of different moulds, 92 , 19; property of, inalienable, 538 , 41; reasons of, 233 , 3; toying with, 496 , 29 Heaven , a plain road to, 35 , 32; ascent to, 485 , 36; at once far and near, 314 , 46; blue of, and the cloud, 418 , 44; communion with, condition of, 217 , 31; compensation from, 60 , 16; conversing with, as a task, 488 , 3; demand of, 483 , 24; door of, lowly, 154 , 19, 23; everywhere overhead, 473 , 43; face to face in, 203 , 19; fire of, source of, 458 , 41; gates of, battered by prayers, 25 , 64; going to, alone, 207 , 13; going to, by force of habit, 398 , 37; help of, 176 , 12; has its thorns, 298 , 12; how to purchase, 360 , 5; how to respond to, 123 , 6; impenetrable to prayer, 118 , 10; in a dewdrop, 225 , 32; in earth, 76 , 6; in proportion to earth, 371 , 39; life of, from soil of earth, 109 , 37; near us, 154 , 40; nearness of, 116 , 3; nothing true but, 482 , 19; old and new road to, 479 , 9; once in, better than often at the door, 28 , 44; only in the eye, 27 , 13; road to, 515 , 22; still open, as of old, 403 , 6; teachings of, 456 , 43; the ladder of, 458 , 48; the miles to, 99 , 32; the, of the soul, 545 , 47; the question as regards, 450 , 29; the way to, 392 , 32; treasures of, 458 , 20; unthinkable, 33 , 39; way to, 461 , 29; when deaf, 103 , 49; who excluded from, 304 , 1; worth much, 184 , 46 Heavenly , and earthly counterparts, 475 , 43; powers, sovereign ways of, 434 , 15; powers, who knows not, 532 , 33; things, love of, 198 , 7 Heaven's , appointments to be accepted, 526 , 24; judgment, just, 488 , 29 Heavens , a way through, remains, 375 , 4; not to be scaled, 127 , 28; sayings about the, 434 , 16-18; the silent, 453 , 38 Heavenward progress, our, 338 , 15 Heaviness that's gone to be forgotten, 243 , 40 Hector , fame of, and the fall of Troy, 154 , 27; love of, 154 , 28; sad look of, 154 , 38 Hegel on Christianity, 42 , 54 Height , and depth, correlative, 560 , 10; how to attain a, 526 , 33; the, and the steps to it, 434 , 23 Heights , other, ahead, 336 , 40 Heir , an, weeping of, 139 , 5 Helicon , rills from, 116 , 8; the fountain of, 429 , 20 Hell , a fierce, 472 , 38; better to reign in, 29 , 51; feeling, 27 , 13; for the inquisitive, 51 , 41; getting to, hard work, 186 , 5; proof of existence of, 191 , 24; scroll over gate of, 230 , 20; the fear o', 427 , 25; the, of these days, 434 , 26; which way I fly, 550 , 9 {pg 605} Hellas made strange by time, 316 , 53 Help , before preaching, 144 , 31; man's, to man, 494 , 28; mutual, importance of, 450 , 32; no effectual, from another, 306 , 21; no help, 150 , 7; not at needful moment, 551 , 11; only in union, 15 , 39; only source of, 304 , 36; our power of, small, 488 , 17; slow, 394 , 14; spontaneous, in need, 30 , 27; the rule of, 158 , 8;
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

You might better have killed me then.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

he moralized, “those who the day before yesterday scarcely knew how to say, ‘Yes, Padre,’ ‘No, Padre,’ now want to know more than those who have grown gray teaching them.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

"Thar ain't one of them but what knows me, an', knowin' me, thar ain't one what would dare play me crooked.
— from Frank Merriwell's Backers; Or, The Pride of His Friends by Burt L. Standish

There were some enormous trees, he hid himself behind the trunk of one of them, and sitting on the moss, turned over the leaves of his prayer-book, and read: "On arriving at the confessional, place yourself on your knees, make the sign of the cross, and ask the priest for his blessing, saying, 'Bless me, Father, for I have sinned;' then recite the Confiteor as far as mea culpa ... and ..."
— from En Route by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

My home is at Dalesville, Kentucky, U. S. A. Everybody knows me there, and knows I am not insane.
— from The Lost House by Richard Harding Davis

I know more than a thousand.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

And if I catch you knocking me to any other firm, I'll squeal all I know about you and Henry T. and the dirty little lickspittle deals that you corporals of industry pull off for the bigger and brainier crooks, and you'll get chased out of town.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

6:26 I make a decree, that in all the dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel; for he is the living God, and steadfast forever, His kingdom that which shall not be destroyed; and his dominion shall be even to the end.
— from The World English Bible (WEB), Complete by Anonymous

He couldn't keep me, too."
— from The Canadian Photoplay title of The Land of Promise by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

Nothing of this kind marks the banks of [Pg 130] the Rhine, so much eulogized by travellers; for all its formations partake of the parabolic, or curved lines of the primitive, and the eye is relieved by these gradations; but, in the brusque scenes of the West, the precipices are as marked as if they had been hewn down by some gigantic broad-axe.
— from Scenes and Adventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

In Kirby Moorside the following entry in the register of [40] burials records the event, which is so replete with a singular retributive justice—so constituted to impress and sadden the mind:— 'Georges Villus Lord dooke of Buckingham.' He left scarcely a friend to mourn his life; for to no man had he been true.
— from The Wits and Beaux of Society. Volume 1 by Philip Wharton