Then the huntsman did as the old woman had directed him, cut open the bird, sought the heart, swallowed it down, and took the cloak home with him.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

As long as the issue of any matter fraught with peril is still in doubt, and there is yet some possibility left that all may come right, no one should ever tremble or think of anything but resistance,—just as a man should not despair of the weather if he can see a bit of blue sky anywhere.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer

She is decidedly averse to my making the acquaintance of her husband, the lame old man of whom I had caught a glimpse on the boulevard.
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

The aortal trunk, G, of the arterial system is disposed along the median line, as well for its own safety as for the fitting distribution of those branches which spring symmetrically from either side of it to supply the lateral regions of the body.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

So, after the office was up, I to him, and W. Hewer with me, and find him in his sick bed (I never was at their house, this Inne, before) very sensible in discourse and thankful for my kindness to him, and his breath rattled in his throate, and they did lay pigeons to his feet while I was in the house, and all despair of him, and with good reason.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

but do you forget that the Nautilus is armed with a powerful spur, and could we not send it diagonally against these fields of ice, which would open at the shocks.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

“Pray, if a body may be so bold, how much a night may you give at present to keep the undertakers aloof?” “Me, Sir!” said Mr. Lovel, very much discomposed; “I protest I never thought myself in such imminent danger as to-really, Sir, I don’t understand you.”
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

I have writ to her, danced with her, and fought for her, and have been her Man in the Sight and Expectation of the whole Town these 1 three Years, and thought my self near the End of my Wishes; when the other Day she called me into her Closet, and told me, with a very grave Face, that she was a Woman of Honour, and scorned to deceive a Man who loved her with so much Sincerity as she saw I did, and therefore she must inform me that she was by Nature the most inconstant Creature breathing, and begg'd of me not to marry her; If I insisted upon it, I should; but that she was lately fallen in Love with another.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

They were so heavily weighted with their armour, always heavier than that of the English, that they could hardly move, and their front was so much crowded that they could not use their archers; so they broke off their lances as at Poitiers to the length of five feet, and stood in dense array, thirty-one ranks against the English four. Arrived within range the archers struck their stakes slantwise into the ground, and drew bow.
— from A History of the British Army, Vol. 1 First Part—to the Close of the Seven Years' War by Fortescue, J. W. (John William), Sir

The soldiers in despair at this deluge uttered many imprecations against the Saint; and looked for images of him, burning and breaking as many as they could find.
— from Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Complete by Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de

I felt her cold touch on my back!’—and when that sister is dead at the moment—what do you call that?”
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various

“So it did, and then——” “Old Star’s foal died,” said Mollie.
— from Five Little Bush Girls by E. Lee (Emily Lee) Ryan

With respect to the internal structure of the radii, they are formed, in T. purpurascens and costata , of tubes, like those of the parietes, and therefore according to the normal plan; whilst in the other species they are formed by longitudinal sinuous ridges, sending out on each side irregular denticuli; and the interspaces between the ridges are filled up solidly during the growth of the radii, in all the species, except in T. radiata , in which they are left to a considerable extent open.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) The Balanidæ, (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc., etc. by Charles Darwin

Then, untasted, she set it down, and then, with the effect of a pale, sudden glare, her eyes were at last upon him.
— from The Third Window by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

"Then allow me to tell you that, for want of employing one of your most precious qualities, you lose vast enjoyments, which would not only fill up that void in your heart, but would distract you from your domestic sorrows and supply that need of stirring emotions, excitement, and," added the prince, smiling, "I dare almost to venture to add,—pray forgive me for having so bad an opinion of your sex,—that natural love for mystery and intrigue which exercises so powerful an empire over many, if not all, females."
— from The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 by Eugène Sue

Ere long, however, the wind rises from the N. E., and the snow is driven against the windows, rounded and hardened by the attrition of its flakes upon each other, in their descent through the eddying and opposite currents.
— from The Philosophy of the Weather. And a Guide to Its Changes by T. B. (Thomas Belden) Butler

General Smolledin is deployed around the walls; General Alexeiev is deployed around General Smolledin; General Paretsev is deployed around Alexeiev and so on to the outskirts of the city.
— from I Was a Teen-Age Secret Weapon by Richard Sabia

The night was dark, and the scene is described as tremendous; groups of pikemen and other insurgents were dispersed in various parts of the vicinity of the scene of action, while others were calling out for arms, and led in crowds to the grand depot.
— from Cruikshank's Water Colours by William Harrison Ainsworth