Then said he, "Be easy, I will not kill thee," and took another sheep and made it ready for the guests, and conveyed the lambkin to a good peasant woman, to whom he related all that he had seen and heard.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

Other authors have sought a more intimate reason for the share which social impulses have played in the formation of totemic institutions.
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

In such a mind, I repeat, what a host of recollections are stirred up by a trifle!
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

But I do not pretend that my protestations should acquit me: I rest my innocence on a plain and simple explanation of the facts which have been adduced against me; and I hope the character I have always borne will incline my judges to a favourable interpretation, where any circumstance appears doubtful or suspicious.”
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

212–217, 1888; see also maps in Royce.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Near it, squares are made in rice flour, in each of which a leaf with rice flour and paddy, and a lighted torch or wick is placed.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

It is awkward and embarrassing to have to keep referring to notes; and besides it breaks up your speech and makes it ragged and non-coherent; but you can tear up your pictures as soon as you have made them—they will stay fresh and strong in your memory in the order and sequence in which you scratched them down.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

If a cognition is to have objective reality, that is, to relate to an object, and possess sense and meaning in respect to it, it is necessary that the object be given in some way or another.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

On the 6th of September, at Memphis, I received an order from General Grant dated the 2d, to send Hurlbut's division to Brownsville, in the direction of Bolivar, thence to report by letter to him at Jackson.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Perhaps some scene between Serge and Micheline in regard to the club.
— from Serge Panine — Volume 03 by Georges Ohnet

Nothing, alas, can be said about me; I really can't furnish Matter enough to the Muse e'en for an epigram, small.
— from The Poems of Schiller — Third period by Friedrich Schiller

"Future events will speak plainly," returned the Sieur, "and meanwhile, I rely on your engagement to avoid him."
— from The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 2 (of 4) by Jane Porter

Gravitation is nothing more than a mode of moving—a tendency towards a centre: to speak strictly, all motion is relative gravitation; since that which falls relatively to us, rises, with relation to other bodies.
— from The System of Nature, or, the Laws of the Moral and Physical World. Volume 1 by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'

Ysidria, I had already learned, was as skeptical as myself in regard to Madre Moreno's spells, for the laughing manner in which she had spoken of her aunt's charms and witcheries, when we were on the hill and even in the presence of the Madre herself, convinced me of her intelligence and education.
— from The Beautiful Eyes of Ysidria by Charles A. Gunnison

The Junior Dean, in spite of his sentiment, was a man of the world, and he scented a metaphor in Raine's speech.
— from A Study In Shadows by William John Locke

And just then the nurse opened the door to the studio, and with Max’s arm still around me, I raised my head and looked in.
— from When a Man Marries by Mary Roberts Rinehart