Thereupon he went away, and when he returned next day she had not done it, and said: ‘Why should I shed the blood of an innocent boy who has never harmed anyone?’
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

ay merci de cestuy vieix et noble royaume; fay-en pardurable forteresse de liberté et de joustice, et garde-le de tout meschief de dedens et de dehors; donne à sa gent droit esprit pour ne pas Diex guerroyer de ses dons, ne de richesce ne de savoir; et conforte-les fermement en ta foy'…."
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

She only saw his chest rise and fall, with a long breath that might have been a sigh, and the hand that wore the ring nestled down into the grass, as if to hide something too precious or too tender to be spoken of.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

sicken, disgust, revolt, nauseate, disenchant, repel, offend, shock, stink in the nostrils; go against the stomach, turn the stomach; make one sick, set the teeth on edge, go against the grain, grate on the ear; stick in one's throat, stick in one's gizzard; rankle, gnaw, corrode, horrify, appal[obs3], appall, freeze the blood; make the flesh creep, make the hair stand on end; make the blood curdle, make the blood run cold; make one shudder.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

As for the money, it was found among the ruins next day in an English iron box with a secret lock; it had got under the floor somehow, and if it had not been for the fire it would never have been found!
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Having done discourse with him and directed him to go with my advice to my Lord expresse to-morrow to get his pardon perfected before his going, because of what I read the other night in Sir W. Coventry’s letter, I to the office, and there had an extraordinary meeting of Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Batten, and Sir W. Pen, and my Lord Bruncker and I to hear my paper read about pursers, which they did all of them with great good will and great approbation of my method and pains in all, only Sir W. Pen, who must except against every thing and remedy nothing, did except against my proposal for some reasons, which I could not understand, I confess, nor my Lord Bruncker neither, but he did detect indeed a failure or two of mine in my report about the ill condition of the present pursers, which I did magnify in one or two little things, to which, I think, he did with reason except, but at last with all respect did declare the best thing he ever heard of this kind, but when Sir W. Batten did say, “Let us that do know the practical part of the Victualling meet Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Pen and I and see what we can do to mend all,” he was so far from offering or furthering it, that he declined it and said, he must be out of towne.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

[2] otro mosaico—en los dos primeros puestos, pero no sin que influyera también en la distribución el negro, presente aquí y allá, [3] sobre todo en las Antillas; dándose el caso de [4] la congregación de tres razas bien determinadas y nada comunes entre sí, con el resultado natural de inmensas diferencias según domine el español como en Chile, el negro como en Haití, o el indio como en Méjico.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

But for their sister, the right noble duchess, You never fix'd your eye on three fair medals Cast in one figure, of so different temper.
— from The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

The plated ware Mademoiselle left behind her was too cumbrous, probably for which reason, no doubt, she also left the fire irons, the chimney-glasses, and the rosewood cottage piano.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

“You’ve got Raleigh and Falls beat right now,” declared the other with deep conviction.
— from Right Guard Grant by Ralph Henry Barbour

Mr. Adams recognised no dictator but the Continental Congress and his own keen and penetrating judgment.
— from A Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, and of Washington and Patrick Henry With an appendix, containing the Constitution of the United States, and other documents by L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) Judson

We will not follow the party through all the difficulties and perils of the desert route, nor detail [Pg 242] the various devilries of the Diggers, who constantly sought opportunities to stampede the animals, or, approaching them in the night as they grazed, fired their arrows indiscriminately at the herd, trusting that dead or disabled ones would be left behind, and afford them a good supply of meat.
— from Life in the Far West by George Frederick Augustus Ruxton

McPherson was moving astride of the railroad, near Decatur; Schofield along a road leading toward Atlanta, by Colonel Howard's house and the distillery; and Thomas was crossing "Peach-Tree" in line of battle, building bridges for nearly every division as deployed.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

“But when gentlemen and noblemen travel incognito , and lodge in cabins,” added St. Dennis, with a satanic smile, glancing his eye on Grace, “they have good reasons, no doubt.”
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 06 by Maria Edgeworth

My clothes are easy, and my face wants art, I greive not when I rest, nor doe I spend More tyme in sleepe then nature can impart.
— from Diary of John Manningham Of the Middle Temple, and of Bradbourne, Kent, Barrister‑at‑Law, 1602-1603 by John Manningham

"Yes, and it's starting right now," declared Captain Jack Rover, as he glanced through the trees to the overcast sky.
— from The Rover Boys in the Land of Luck; Or, Stirring Adventures in the Oil Fields by Edward Stratemeyer

They were constantly misleading the public opinion of the slave States, until at last the South recognized no difference between the creed of Seward and the creed of Gerrit Smith, and held Lincoln responsible for all the views and expressions of William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips.
— from Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by James Gillespie Blaine