As soon as Katerina Ivanovna and Sonia heard of it, mercy on us, it was as though I stepped into the kingdom of Heaven.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Sigmund speedily prepared his usual test, and ere leaving the hut one day he bade Sinfiotli take meal from a certain sack, and knead it and bake some bread.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

It had the shape of a huge yellow and white sack, and kept inhaling and exhaling in great gusts.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

Now it came to pass that we both bore a son at the same hour of the same day; and on the third day this woman overlaid her son, and killed it, and then took my son out of my bosom, and removed him to herself, and as I was asleep she laid her dead son in my arms.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

208 In consequence of continued abuse of his official position for selfish ends Doublehead was soon afterward killed in accordance with a decree of the chiefs of the Nation, Major Ridge being selected as executioner.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

He had gotten used to being a master of men; and because of the stifling heat and the stench, and the fact that he was a “scab” and knew it and despised himself.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

And on the Shere-Thursday make they their Therf bread, in token of the Maundy, and dry it at the sun, and keep it all the year, and give it to sick men, instead of God’s body.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

The sacred serpents are kept in a grand house, which they sometimes leave to crawl in their neighbouring grounds.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Frances is improved but I have not had the courage to tell Molly I am sorry, and knowing I am wrong makes me ruder than ever to Frances.
— from Molly Brown's Orchard Home by Nell Speed

The wife knew she would soon be killed also, and after they had heard the deathblows given to their children she said to her husband, “If you are sorry that I am killed and ever want to see me again, keep the right hand and arm of my body; take off the skin and keep it about you.”
— from Ethnology of the Ungava District, Hudson Bay Territory Eleventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1889-1890, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1894, pages 159-350 by Lucien M. (Lucien McShan) Turner

How it came to end so—how soldiers enough happened to be at hand at the right moment—how it was all done without fighting, without noise enough even to break her rest (and she always know if anybody stirred)—the gouvernante could not tell.
— from The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance by Harriet Martineau

“Come to the fire, child,” said Aunt Katy in a milder tone, and as she turned to the back door she said, mentally, “ dead, and covered with snow .”
— from Pen Pictures, of Eventful Scenes and Struggles of Life by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Craig

Young Warren, who had started for the door, stopped and kicked impatiently at the corners of the rug.
— from Cap'n Warren's Wards by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

‘No; Maura was at school, and Kally is a bad person to pump.’
— from Beechcroft at Rockstone by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

He was soon afterwards killed in an unsuccessful attack made by Maurice upon Venlo.
— from History of the United Netherlands, 1595-96 by John Lothrop Motley