The fourth brought a cart and horses, and the third climbed the tree, bored a hole in the moon, passed a rope through it, and let it down.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

God bless every undertaking which revives patriotism and rebukes the indifferent and lawless!
— from Model Speeches for Practise by Grenville Kleiser

These are either the juices of fruits, or a decoction or infusion of the leaves, flowers or roots of vegetables, impregnated with a sufficient quantity of sugar for their preservation, and retaining them in a liquid state.
— from How to Make Candy A Complete Hand Book for Making All Kinds of Candy, Ice Cream, Syrups, Essences, Etc., Etc. by Anonymous

Leave female endurance to poetry, and remember that in actual life the laws of bone and muscle are as fixed as any other laws of natural philosophy, and that action is surely followed by fatigue.
— from A New Atmosphere by Gail Hamilton

When the Marchesa looked at her son's fine, sensitive dark face, grown stronger for controlled pain, and realised that in all likelihood no compensation would ever come to him, she felt that incomparable bitterness with which we watch the suffering of one for whom we would gladly die.
— from Shadows of Flames: A Novel by Amélie Rives

In the pamphlet about Reinsdorf there is a letter published which our great martyr wrote the day previous to his decapitation.
— from Anarchy and Anarchists A History of the Red Terror and the Social Revolution in America and Europe; Communism, Socialism, and Nihilism in Doctrine and in Deed; The Chicago Haymarket Conspiracy and the Detection and Trial of the Conspirators by Michael J. Schaack

Another color blind who was very fond of drawing, once painted a red tree in a landscape without being aware that he had done so.
— from Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 by Various