They spoil the tender saplings, dear As children which I cherish here, Mar root and branch and leaf and spray, And steal the ripening fruit away.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

“That’s it,” replied Athos, becoming almost livid; “that is my grand story of the fair lady, and when I relate that, I must be very drunk.”
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

The yelling was of no use, for the Marionettes, instead of going on with their act, made twice as much racket as before, and, lifting up Pinocchio on their shoulders, carried him around the stage in triumph.
— from The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

In Rumania, Bulgaria and puppet Serbia the Germans were not successful; in Italy they created the Fascist Italian Social Republic and brought a large part of Northern Italy back into the war.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

But in general, if the country contains a sufficient number of persons qualified to provide education under government auspices, the same persons would be able and willing to give an equally good education on the voluntary principle, under the assurance of remuneration afforded by a law rendering education compulsory, combined with State aid to those unable to defray the expense.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

And Right And Between A Law And A Charter CHAPTER XXVII.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

And, indeed, ignorance keeps you here fastened in bed, just as that bully-rock Mars was detained by Vulcan’s art; for all the while you do not mind that you ought to spare some of your rest, and be as lavish as you can of the goods of this famous island.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

As soon as he had done so, I slid down the roof as before, and lying down on the dormer-roof with a firm grasp of the rope I told the monk not to be afraid but to let himself go.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Religious Revolt at Bohol and Leyte.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

And anxious ask: “Will spring return, And birds and lambs again be gay, And blossoms clothe the hawthorn spray?”
— from Marmion: A Tale Of Flodden Field by Walter Scott

Ogden Ford was round and blobby and looked overfed.
— from Piccadilly Jim by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

It is, in many senses, the Law of Nature, this same Law of Feudalism;—no right Aristocracy but a Land one!
— from Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle

To these more private basins, during the time of libation, the priest might have recourse, and be at liberty to judge by the quantity, colour, motion, and other appearances in the water, of future events, of dubious cases, without danger of contradiction from the people below.
— from Philosophy in Sport Made Science in Earnest Being an Attempt to Illustrate the First Principles of Natural Philosophy by the Aid of Popular Toys and Sports by John Ayrton Paris

It shall never be said I refused a body a light!'
— from What's Mine's Mine — Complete by George MacDonald

But to go back to the eighteenth century, here is the story told by the author of The Spiritual Quixote , published in 1772, who in his Welsh wanderings found "a poor Welsh vicar of the diocese of Llandaff, sitting in his humble kitchen paring turnips for dinner, while he read a book and listened to one of his children repeating his lesson."
— from A Leisurely Tour in England by James John Hissey

Here was held the Synod of Patrick, the Synod of Ruadhan and Brendan, and lastly, the Synod of Adamnan.
— from An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Mary Frances Cusack

For some time I did not meddle 64 with rats again; but at length, growing stronger and more skilful, I feared neither rats nor any other vermin, and acquired the reputation of an excellent hunter.
— from Evenings at Home; Or, The Juvenile Budget Opened by John Aikin

If they are really aggrieved by any laws upon our Statute-books opposed to their rights—if upon examination any such are found to be in conflict with the Constitution of these United States—nay, further, if they but serve to irritate our brethren of the South, whether Constitutional or not, I, for one, have no objection that they should instantly be repealed."
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

It appears to me in writing these pages that I am very anxious to get out of my childhood, and out of my boyhood days, and as I cannot get back to them once I get out, nor see any use in singing: “Would I were a boy again,” I will remain a boy as long as I can.
— from Rossa's Recollections, 1838 to 1898 Childhood, boyhood, manhood; customs, habits and manners of the Irish people; Erinach and Sassenach; Catholic and protestant; Englishman and Irishman; English religion; Irish plunder; social life and prison life; the Fenian movement; Travels in Ireland, England, Scotland and America by Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa

Yet again, when I am more heavily weighted with chains, and my gaoler, to evidence his detestation of the Kaffir (unbeliever) entrusted to his charge, goes out of his way to invent an excuse for giving me the lash, I am reported as being at liberty, my release having been granted on the representations of some imaginary Emir, who claimed it on the ground that I had arranged the betrayal of Sheikh Saleh’s caravan.
— from A Prisoner of the Khaleefa: Twelve Years Captivity at Omdurman by Charles Neufeld