They were there, side by side, leaning forward simultaneously in one movement of entreaty and fear, communicating their terror to one another, taking a keen pleasure in feeling their blood freeze in their veins.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
NOW, said King Pellinore, I shall put to you two knights, and ye shall choose which is most worthy, that is Sir Bagdemagus, and Sir Tor, my son.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir
It helps the falling-sickness, madness, and the pain in the head called Kephalalgia, pains in the breast and stomach whether they come by sickness or bruises, pains in the loins or back-bone, hardness of womens breasts, putrefaction of meat in the stomach, and sour belchings.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper
[20] Dr. P. Näcke: Über Kriminal Psychologie, in the above-mentioned Zeitschrift, Vol.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross
Ibùbù ku kanímu ang tanan kung pagmahal, I will shower all my affection on you.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
But all the results of the chase were not made into preserved provisions; and as the game kept perfectly in the intense cold, wild duck and other fowl were eaten fresh, and declared superior to all other aquatic birds in the known world.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
I do not regret now that I did not see Nikolay; God knows, perhaps if I had seen him I should have lost the picture my imagination paints for me now.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Dì ku makapamyista kay wà man kuy pakù, I can’t attend the fiesta because I don’t have the money for the fare.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
Melancholy and unrest of this kind possessed Ilya, especially after he had visited the church.
— from Three Men: A Novel by Maksim Gorky
During the operations in the Kohat Pass in February, 1850, within twelve months of the corps being raised, several of the men were killed and wounded.
— from Forty-one years in India: from subaltern to commander-in-chief by Roberts, Frederick Sleigh Roberts, Earl
And I think Kittredge played it rather low down on the poor beggar.
— from The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush by Francis Lynde
"Perhaps," the coroner continued, "if you have the fellow of the glove now handed to me in your pocket, you will kindly produce it, as that will, of course, put an end to this part of the subject."
— from The Curse of Carne's Hold: A Tale of Adventure by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
He took the animal in his hands, covered it with kisses, placed it within his nest, and then, addressing the head jailer, who happened to pass by at the moment, he said: "Sir, if you will allow me to keep this rat, I will solemnly promise to submit to you in every thing, and never again to incur punishment."
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. II, No. X., March 1851 by Various
Whenever a Gordian knot presented itself the undaunted Mrs Rudd was always ready with a pair of scissors!
— from Some Distinguished Victims of the Scaffold by Horace Bleackley
God knows, Patty, I have always been a good, true woman. ...
— from Half a Rogue by Harold MacGrath
I know of a kind physician in this town who does as much sometimes; but I won't do him the ill service of mentioning his name here.
— from Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray
Kennedy peered into the broken coffin long and attentively.
— from The Dream Doctor by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve
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