Far from those whom I love and by whom I am loved, my heart calls them and consumes away in its grief.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

When it was evening the two brothers came and asked how he had got on, and he said, "pretty well so far," and that he had seen no one except at mid-day when a little mannikin had come and begged for a piece of bread, that he had given some to him, but that the mannikin had let it fall and had asked him to pick it up again; but as he did not choose to do that, the elf had begun to lose his temper, and that he had done what he ought not, and had given the elf a beating, on which he had told him where the King's daughters were.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

What she had to tell she told in a cold, hard tone, very much the tone in which some criminal, dogged and sullen to the last, might have confessed to a jail chaplain.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

i. Lady Macbeth herself could not more naturally have introduced at intervals the questions 'Ride you this afternoon?' (l. 19), 'Is't far you ride?' (l. 24), 'Goes Fleance with you?' (l. 36).
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

Then glorious Brahmá, 47 Lord Most High, Creator of the earth and sky, [pg 008] The four-faced God, to meet the sage Came to Válmíki's hermitage.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

what do you think a gentleman like Mr. Higgins cares what you came in?
— from Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

Each one, according to his moral lights, made his comments.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

Though literary men have converted their writing to propaganda purposes, few of them have gone on to define the characteristics of a specific conversionary literature or to compile canons of literary style applicable to the propaganda field.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

The next morning Humphrey would come back, but so worn out that he could not work, and he always declared that little men had come to him in crowds, and used him as a horse, and that with them he had travelled all night across fields and over hedges.’
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

[Pg 22] "Listen, men," he commanded.
— from Uncle Sam, Detective by William Atherton DuPuy

It may be, therefore, that Britain was visited by Easterners even before Sargon's time, and that the Glasgow boat with the plug of cork was manned by dark Orientals who were prospecting the Scottish coast before the last land movement had ceased—that is, some time after 3000 b.c. MEGALITHS Upper: Kit's Coty House, Kent.
— from Ancient Man in Britain by Donald A. (Donald Alexander) Mackenzie

The two ships lay motionless, huddled close together.
— from Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 by Various

Rick vaguely realized that the light must have changed, but he didn't think about it.
— from The Scarlet Lake Mystery: A Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin

“Then, monsieur, the language must have changed since I have been in France.”
— from Paul and His Dog, v.2 (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XIV) by Paul de Kock

Perfect, he, as a lover, might have called them off-hand.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

The conceptualist in his zealous endeavor to distinguish between imagery and logical meaning has come perilously near driving imagery into the arms of reality.
— from Studies in Logical Theory by John Dewey

It was evident that Lane Morgan had considered the warlike instincts of wandering bands of Apache Indians when he had built his house.
— from 'Drag' Harlan by Charles Alden Seltzer