So they went indoors together and sat down, and the man brought out the bread, meat, and wine, which although he had eaten and drunk of them, were still unconsumed.
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

‘Just so it is, Mr. Burden,’ Otto affirmed.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

On one of these days, when so many went on a pilgrimage to the dying Buddha, Kamala also went to him, who used to be the most beautiful of the courtesans.
— from Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Our extracts have extended to a great length: but the animated picture of Upper Canadian life at a primitive era, which such an enumeration of items, in some sort affords, must be our apology.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

A medicated glass of water and a medicated bottle of smelling-salts relieved her of all further embarrassment and alarm.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

We also informed them that the officers would land, and requested that the townspeople might be ordered to treat them with civility.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

I think I have discovered among them uncommon pains taken to display their fine linen, of which, indeed, they have great plenty, their furniture, plate, housekeeping, and variety of wines, in which article, it must be owned, they are profuse, if not prodigal—A burgher of Edinburgh, not content to vie with a citizen of London, who has ten times his fortune, must excel him in the expence as well as elegance of his entertainments.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

You did something to me that no man born of woman has ever succeeded in doing before.”
— from The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Her women, who stood about her, understood not what this heart was nor what her words meant, but, overcome with compassion, wept all and in vain questioned her affectionately of the cause of her lament and studied yet more, as best they knew and might, to comfort her.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

As Industry gathered strength and power it became a powerful money magnet, drawing the wealth of the world in its train, not, however, merely for the sake of possessing the money, but of making it work.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

Instead of pursuing the route he had intended, by Aix and Genoa, Mr. Peale here embarked in a Neapolitan ship, and, after a stormy and uncomfortable passage of ten days, found himself in the magnificent Bay of Naples.
— from The American Quarterly Review, No. 18, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various

I got in a small piano from Érard (my big one took up too much room behind the scenes)
— from Letters of a Diplomat's Wife, 1883-1900 by Mary King Waddington

Richard Courtenay mad bysshop of Norwych.
— from A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum by Anonymous

The villages of these peasants, too, are seen every where nestling in the valleys, and clinging to the sides of the hills, while the summits of almost all [Pg 17] the elevations are crowned with the ruins of old feudal castles built by barons, or chiefs, or kings, or military bishops of ancient times, famous in history.
— from Rollo on the Rhine by Jacob Abbott

"Yes, but he'd be vastly more entertaining, to my mind, because of his uncertainty."
— from Talbot's Angles by Amy Ella Blanchard

Ramsey was a son-in-law of Calvin James, and, as heretofore related, had brought his family with my brothers on their trip out in 1850.
— from Recollections of a Pioneer by J. W. (J. Watt) Gibson

The legend was told me after I had left the church, and I had paid no particular attention to the monument; but I thought at the time that the hand might be only the Ulster badge.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 61, December 28, 1850 by Various

Men go in for drink, practical jokes and many other grotesque things; they do not much mind making beasts of themselves, and would not much mind having beasts made of their forefathers.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

The same may be observed in a number of other cases.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume I by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

I made big ones and I made little ones, according to how mad my folks were and the aim they took.
— from Hollow Tree Nights and Days by Albert Bigelow Paine