Gudrun answered angrily: "Thou shouldst be wiser than to venture to vilify my husband, as it is the talk of all that no one like to him in every respect has ever come into the world; nor does it become thee to vilify him, as he was thy former husband, and slew Fafnir, and rode through the fire, whom thou thoughtest was King Gunnar; and he lay with thee, and took from thee the ring Andvaranaut, and here mayest thou recognize it."
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

“How would you like to have it?
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

His sleek hair under the brim of the tall hat had a sheen like the hat itself; his cheeks, pale and flat, the line of his clean-shaven lips, his firm chin with its greyish shaven tinge, and the buttoned strictness of his black cut-away coat, conveyed an appearance of reserve and secrecy, of imperturbable, enforced composure; but his eyes, cold,—grey, strained—looking, with a line in the brow between them, examined him wistfully, as if they knew of a secret weakness.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

I have taken to the sofa with my staylace cut, and have lain there hours insensible, with my head over the side, and my hair all down, and my feet I don't know where—” (“Much higher than your head, my love,” said Mr. Camilla.)
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

I did give him a civil answer, but shall think twice of it; and the more, because of the changes we are like to have in the Navy, which will not make it fit for me to divide the little I have left more than I have done, God knowing what my condition is, I having not attended, and now not being able to examine what my state is, of my accounts, and being in the world, which troubles me mightily.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Blue-distant, a mountain of carven stone appeared before them,—the Temple, lifting to heaven its wilderness of chiseled pinnacles, flinging to the sky the golden spray of its decoration.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

“If, in half an hour from this, you still insist on my leaving the house, I will accept your ladyship’s dismissal, but not your ladyship’s money.”
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

On great and solemn occasions the women were called as witnesses and listeners to hold in their memory words spoken or promises given.
— from Sir William Johnson and the Six Nations by William Elliot Griffis

As for his laugh, to hear it once was to remember it for ever.
— from Cats: Their Points and Characteristics With Curiosities of Cat Life, and a Chapter on Feline Ailments by Gordon Stables

Thus Justin Martyr, who died 165, says in his first Apology, which was written about 140: "Our teacher of these things is Jesus Christ, who also was born for this purpose and was crucified under Pontius Pilate, procurator of Judea, that we reasonably worship Him, having learned that He is the Son of the true God Himself, and holding Him in the second place, and the prophetic Spirit in the third."
— from Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by F. (Friedrich) Bente

Up, and with Sir J. Minnes to White Hall by his coach, by the way talking of my brother John to get a spiritual promotion for him, which I am now to looke after, for as much as he is shortly to be Master in Arts, and writes me this weeke a Latin letter that he is to go into orders this Lent.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1666 N.S. by Samuel Pepys

By suitors from North, South, East, and West, Like that Heiress in song, 'Tibbie Fowler.'" The embarras de choix resulted, as often happens, in the selection of the worst of the group: "A foreign Count—who came incog.
— from John Leech, His Life and Work, Vol. 2 [of 2] by William Powell Frith

The image wavered in and out of focus, growing clearer as the machine learned to hold it steady.
— from Address: Centauri by F. L. (Floyd L.) Wallace

The engine shrieked warningly at intervals, the train rumbled hollowly over short bridges 144 and across pikes, swung round the hills, and plunged with wild warnings past little towns hid in the snow, with only here and there a light shining dimly.
— from Other Main-Travelled Roads by Hamlin Garland

His last instructions, and I've logged them here in shorthand, were"—he opened a neat pocket-book—" 'Get out of this and conduct your own damned manoeuvres in your own damned tinker fashion!
— from Traffics and Discoveries by Rudyard Kipling

They, as well as their Roman followers, seem largely to have illustrated their own feelings and experience by recondite allusions to the innumerable heroines of ancient mythology.
— from The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by W. Y. (William Young) Sellar

From that time forth he led a double life, sleeping religiously at the Maréchale's abode and passing the afternoon with Madame Dambreuse, so that there was scarcely a single hour of freedom left to him in the middle of the day.
— from Sentimental Education; Or, The History of a Young Man. Volume 2 by Gustave Flaubert