t be that her mother is dead.” “Ah!” said the man, and fell into his reverie once more.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Fulla, who was always ready to serve her mistress, immediately departed, and soon returned, accompanied by a hideous dwarf, who promised to prevent the statue from speaking if Frigga would only deign to smile graciously upon him.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

She all-to-be-fooled me for, as she called it, my intended desperate adventure; she also urged what she could to dishearten me from it—the hardship and troubles that my husband met with in the way; but all this I got over pretty well.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

Let me pause to observe that the complexion of this man is dark and swarthy; it was no common swarthiness which constituted the sole point of remembrance, both as regards Valence and Madame Deluc.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Why do men murmur in difficult and sad emergencies, as if the gods had retired in anger?
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Mr. Phillips, especially, considered me in danger, and said, when I showed him the manuscript of my story, if in my place, he would throw it into the fire.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

But must I dare all, since to me unworthy, Bliss thy beauty brings that a God might envy; Never yet was fervid woman a fairer Image of Kypris.
— from The Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English by Sappho

These must not be trusted, but the search must be made in districts and soils, yet not in depressions, where those signs are found growing not from seed, but springing up naturally of themselves.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

He said he didn't care about mine, it wasn't the fashionable color, and he never paid much for it in the first place; the work put into it made it dear, and so on.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

She all to befooled me for, as she called it, my intended desperate adventure; she also urged what she could to dishearten me to it; the hardship and troubles that my husband met with in the way, but all this I got over pretty well.[86]
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan

There be two maners of them, one maner is deadly and sleeth them that eateth of them and the other dooth not”!
— from The Old English Herbals by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde

They thought they would make themselves merry with our starvation—so, they throwed a bomb shell into our lines, that, as it came along through the air, we saw had some devilment in it, from the streak it made in daylight; and, sure enough, when we come to look at it on the ground, we found it filled with rice and molasses—just to show that these Scotchmen were laughing at us for having nothing to eat.
— from Horse-Shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy

The origin of several coins minted in Dublin about Sigtryg’s time by the Anglo-Saxon king Ethelred the Second—as well as by the Danish-English king Canute the Great, and which for the most part are struck by the same Dublin coiner, Færemin, who minted most of Sigtryg’s own coins—is involved in no less obscurity.
— from An Account of the Danes and Norwegians in England, Scotland, and Ireland by Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae

Frequently the territory over which sales are made is divided along state lines, and a District Agent appointed for each state.
— from Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy, Business Administration, v. 02 (of 10) by American School of Correspondence

Vergniaud, Guadet, and Gensonné wrote the king a letter couched in terms of the most insolent defiance, and signed with all their names, in which they openly announced to him that an insurrection was organized which should be abandoned if he replaced Roland and his colleagues in the ministry, but which should surely break on the palace and overwhelm it if he refused.
— from The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France by Charles Duke Yonge

But between the two germinal layers a mesoderm is developed, a soft mass of connective tissue, in which the organs are embedded.
— from The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Ernst Haeckel

— Or : pare and slice some cucumbers, sprinkle them with salt and pepper, pour a little vinegar over, and let them lie an hour; then stew them with the collops in broth, enough to make sufficient gravy; season {161} with catsup and what flavouring ingredient you prefer, skim the gravy when the meat is done, and serve in a hash dish.
— from The English Housekeeper: Or, Manual of Domestic Management Containing advice on the conduct of household affairs and practical instructions concerning the store-room, the pantry, the larder, the kitchen, the cellar, the dairy; the whole being intended for the use of young ladies who undertake the superintendence of their own housekeeping by Anne Cobbett