On another page he drew a tomb, and wrote: La mort est secourable et la mort est tranquille.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

But though he had been endowed with the power of falling into decay from rust when he pleased, he did not make use of it.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

—¡Profano!—dijo el cura;—el primer hombre del mundo fué San Ignacio de Loyola.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

We can pass no judgment on these inspirations of the royal bard, as we are ignorant whether any are preserved in the records of the house: a point his descendant, who is deeply skilled in such lore, might probably answer.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Lætitia , confident of Favour, has studied no Arts to please; Daphne , despairing of any Inclination towards her Person, has depended only on her Merit.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

A man of deep cogitations; he will plot mischief when men are asleep; he hath an admirable memory, and remembers to this day how William the Bastard abused him; he cannot endure to be a slave; he is poor with the poor, fearful with the fearful; he plots mischief against the Superiours, with them that plot mischief against them; have a care of him, Kings and Magistrates of Europe; he will show you what he can do in the effects of this Eclipse; he is old, and therefore hath large experience, and will give perilous counsel; he moves but slowly, and therefore doth the more mischief; all the planets contribute their natures and strength to him, and when he sets on doing mischief he will do it to purpose; he doth not regard the company of the rest of the Planets, neither do any of the rest of the Planets regard his; he is a barren Planet, and therefore delights not in women; he brings the Pestilence; he is destructive to the fruits of the earth; he receives his light from the Sun, and yet he hates the Sun that gives it him.’
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

She said she was originally the child of a free-man, but that her parents had died when she was very young, and, having no place to go to, an old woman of the village had taken her in and brought her up.
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

His diffidence had prevented his depending on his own judgment in so anxious a case, but his reliance on mine, made every thing easy.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

He signed; then took the letter, waited until the postman had disappeared beyond the bend in the road, and, after walking nervously to and fro for a few minutes, he leaned against the parapet of the bridge and opened the envelope.
— from The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc

He had long ceased to believe in anything he had to say in the law courts, or perhaps he did believe in it, but attached no kind of significance to it; it had all so long been familiar, stale, ordinary. .
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

" William slipped on his longtailed coat over his pajamas, hurried downstairs and married them there in the moonlight, after having examined the license the young man handed in through the parlor window.
— from A Circuit Rider's Wife by Corra Harris

Some of us called upon him immediately upon his arrival, and it is probable he did not meet the secretary with more courtesy than he did us.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

Needing money, this man robbed; desirous of pleasure he dishonored women and girls; defending his booty, he killed men and women, and during it all he felt absolutely certain [ 358 ] of impunity, so long as his victims were Armenians.
— from Bleeding Armenia: Its history and horrors under the curse of Islam by Augustus Warner Williams

Mrs. Harfink called the Baron as often as possible "her dear Lanzberg," in order to show him that she already included him in her family--"a man who can oppose to his fault a counter-balance such as your whole subsequent life is, has not only expiated his fault but he has obliterated it."
— from Felix Lanzberg's Expiation by Ossip Schubin

Zimmermann asked the Ambassador to submit a list of persons he desired to accompany him.
— from Germany, The Next Republic? by Carl W. (Carl William) Ackerman

Certain it is that, on the morning of this eventful day, he, with his escort, heard mass in the Abbey, paid his devotions, and made his offerings at King Edward's shrine, "in which," says an old writer, "the kings of England have great faith."
— from The Story of Westminster Abbey by Violet Brooke-Hunt

Recently the provincial press has drawn attention to what they term the “slave traffic in girls” among the Kwa-kwulths of Cape Mudge and surrounding country.
— from Among the An-ko-me-nums, or Flathead Tribes of Indians of the Pacific Coast by Thomas Crosby

The first wife of the father of the poet having died in 1784, he, in the following year, married Miss Catherine Gordon, only child and heiress of George Gordon, Esq. of Gight.
— from Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 1 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore

But with her great strength and powerful, clutching claws, which she used almost as a bear might, she pulled him down on top of her, striving to use his bulk as a shield against the fangs of the other wolf; and the two rolled over and over to the foot of the knoll.
— from The House in the Water: A Book of Animal Stories by Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir

They continued to mount the wall, on the platform of which a sentinel walked, but instead of opposing them, he held his hand to La Jonquiere to assist him, and in three minutes they were on the platform, had drawn up the ladder, and placed it on the other side of the wall.
— from The Regent's Daughter by Alexandre Dumas