In the year 1718 the parliament of Bordeaux sentenced some one to be burned alive for having spread desolation through a whole family by means of knotted cords; and in 1705 two persons were condemned to death in Scotland for stealing certain charmed knots which a woman had made, in order thereby to mar the wedded happiness of Spalding of Ashintilly.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

And there is another class of servants, who are intellectually hardly on the level of companionship; still they have plenty of bodily strength for labour, which accordingly they sell, and are called, if I do not mistake, hirelings, hire being the name which is given to the price of their labour.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

She even went so far as to like it and to give it from time to time pieces of bread soaked in the gravy on her plate.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Thus plenty on both sides makes us mad.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

“I’ll give you a piece of bread,” she said, after a pause; “but we can’t take in a vagrant to lodge.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Obstacles only spurred her on to redoubled exertion, and whether she did well or ill, was praised or blamed, she found a never-failing excitement in her attempts to reach the standard of perfection she had set up for herself.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

“But I have plenty of both,” said Khlobuev, and with that went on to deliver himself of a perfect avalanche of projects.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

They feel that he ought not to be made to suffer for what is clearly not his fault, and make a point of being specially kind to him.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

And that proposition comes—God forgive and pity our beloved State—it comes from a citizen of the time-honored and loyal commonwealth of Ohio!
— from From Canal Boy to President; Or, the Boyhood and Manhood of James A. Garfield by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

"Before us appeared a horizon without bounds, in which our eyes distinguished only an immense plain of burning sand, enveloped by a sky on fire.
— from Life and Travels of Mungo Park by Mungo Park

This was not hidden away, like most of the offices, in an upper room or a back building or in some remote cellar, concealed from public observation, but stood with open door on the very street, its customers going in and out as freely and unquestioned as the customers of its next-door neighbor, the dram-shop.
— from Cast Adrift by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

Hans must be excused for these promptings of bruised sensibility,
— from Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

Hence, every piece of blue, say, laid on should be quite pure only at some given spot, from which it must be gradated into blue [328] less pure—greyish blue, or greenish blue, or purplish blue—over all the rest of the space it occupies.
— from Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by George Field

She came again before she started for Johnny, and found him wide awake and staring hungrily at the patch of blue sky visible through the window which faced the East.
— from Chip, of the Flying U by B. M. Bower

The limb was set, the case was a simple and promising one; but she was in pain, and Margaret must go and pass the night with her.
— from Deerbrook by Harriet Martineau

It is a terrible thought, "a terrible ghastly thought" indeed, that we have not so long ago chosen over seven hundred persons of both sexes, each of whom will conceive it his right to make a speech in Parliament every day.
— from In a Green Shade A Country Commentary by Maurice Hewlett