" "Little maiden," said the lord-in-waiting, "I will obtain for you constant employment in the kitchen, and you shall have permission to see the emperor dine, if you will lead us to the nightingale; for she is invited for this evening to the palace."
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

THE SNAKE TRIBE The generic name for snakes is inădû′ .
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Famæ laboranti non facile succurritur —It is not easy to repair a damaged character.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Patience in oppression has limits: we are close on the Abbaye, it has lasted long: a poor Nonjurant, of quicker temper, smites the horny paw with his cane; nay, finding solacement in it, smites the unkempt head, sharply and again more sharply, twice over,—seen clearly of us and of the world.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

These double throbbings soon stirred up all the wild lubricity of the Egerton’s nature, first showing itself in the responsive inward pressures of the delicate widely stretched folds of both receptacles, then increasing in fiery lust, she cried out for us to begin gently our first movements.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

The gunboats under Admiral Porter will do their full share, and I feel every assurance that the army will not fall short in its work.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Very often do the captains of such ships take those absent-minded young philosophers to task, upbraiding them with not feeling sufficient “interest” in the voyage; half-hinting that they are so hopelessly lost to all honorable ambition, as that in their secret souls they would rather not see whales than otherwise.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

You will not find six instances in an age.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

But when the priestly guardians of the divine interests came with their people under the control of successive Gallios,—aliens who cared not for their ceremonial law, and declined to permit the infliction of its penalties, as England now forbids suttee in India,—the priests could only pass sentences; execution of them had to be adjourned to a future world.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

The Senate now fully shared in it; and it was resolved that the usual annual arrangements for the election of magistrates should be suspended, and a more radical remedy be sought for the present dangers; for they came to the conclusion that their affairs were in such a state, as to require a commander with absolute powers.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Nine feet six inches is the size of the average full-grown Tiger; but the skins will stretch, a fact of which the sportsman will sometimes take advantage.
— from Mammalia by Frank E. (Frank Evers) Beddard

Notes for Song III IV. MEXICA OTONCUICATL.
— from Ancient Nahuatl Poetry, Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems Brinton's Library of Aboriginal American Literature Number VII. by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton

He attributed the coming war to three causes: to the faulty geographical limits of the Prussian State, to the desire for a better Federal system in Germany, and to the necessity felt by the Italian nation for securing its independence.
— from A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 by Charles Alan Fyffe

The herrings on the coast of Norway sometimes feed upon a small red worm called the Roé-aal, which renders them unfit for curing; but there is probably no fish so indiscriminate in its food.
— from The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 31, January 30, 1841 by Various

[Pg 48] Of the Pancratium. —The Pancratium was so called from two Greek words 40 which signify that the whole force of the body was necessary for succeeding in it.
— from Ruins of Ancient Cities (Vol. 2 of 2) With General and Particular Accounts of Their Rise, Fall, and Present Condition by Charles Bucke

There are now four such institutions in the United States: one in Boston, opened in 1857, called the Washingtonian Home; one in Media, near Philadelphia, opened in 1867, called the Sanitarium; one at Chicago, opened in 1868; and one at Binghamton, New York, called the New York Inebriate Asylum.
— from Smoking and Drinking by James Parton

Very often do the captains of such ships take those absent-minded young philosophers to task, upbraiding them with not feeling sufficient "interest" in the voyage; half-hinting that they are so hopelessly lost to all honorable ambition, as that in their secret souls they would rather not see whales than otherwise.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

So far as Strength from Weakness, So far is Day from Night; Faith stumbles in its groping Through Darkness toward the Light.
— from Pleiades Club Year Book 1910 by Pleiades Club

In a volume of moderate dimensions, not too long to be tiresome nor too brief to be disappointing, she has collected together the best examples of modern Folk-songs, and with her as a guide the lazy reader lounging in his armchair may wander from the melancholy pine-forests of the North to Sicily’s orange-groves and the pomegranate gardens of Armenia, and listen to the singing of those to whom poetry is a passion, not a profession, and whose art, coming from inspiration and not from schools, if it has the limitations, at least has also the loveliness of its origin, and is one with blowing grasses and the flowers of the field.
— from Reviews by Oscar Wilde

[Footnote 2: Pitcairn, Reprint of Newes from Scotland, I. ii. 218.
— from Elizabethan Demonology An Essay in Illustration of the Belief in the Existence of Devils, and the Powers Possessed By Them, as It Was Generally Held during the Period of the Reformation, and the Times Immediately Succeeding; with Special Reference to Shakspere and His Works by Thomas Alfred Spalding