"Stork, stork, fly away, Stand not on one leg, I pray, See your wife is in her nest, With her little ones at rest.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

I sought no opportunity of learning the impression made by my opera upon these learned judges and magnates of the musical world.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

She stands now on one leg, now on both; she despises the whole world; yet she lives only in imagination.
— from Andersen's Fairy Tales by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

3 ‘Not careless of the gift of song, Nor out of love with noble fame, I, meditating much and long What I should sing, how win a name, Considering well what theme unsung, What reason worth the cost of rhyme, Remains to loose the poet’s tongue In these last days, the dregs of time, Learn that to me, though born so late, There does, beyond desert, befall (May my great fortune make me great!)
— from The Angel in the House by Coventry Patmore

One gazed about, but saw no one; one listened, one heard neither a footstep nor a human murmur.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Or who would not have such children as Lycurgus left behind him to be the saviours, not only of Lacedaemon, but of Hellas, as one may say?
— from Symposium by Plato

The place of his birth, as well as the condition of his mother Helena, have been the subject, not only of literary, but of national disputes.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

W., B. Between 17-41 Mid festive crowds, thy Brows too garlanded, A Brother of the Feast: of Fancies fair, Hyblaean murmurs of poetic Thought, Industrious in its Joy , by lilied Streams Native or outland, Lakes and famous Hills!
— from The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 1 (of 2) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Zapotecs were one of those nations who voluntarily submitted themselves to the Spaniards, not out of love for the Europeans, but through hatred of the Aztecs, who had conquered them in the preceding century.
— from Nagualism: A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton

He told her some of the old college stories, stories not only of Langley, but of other Wardens in the tempestuous days of the Reformation and of the Civil War.
— from The New Warden by Ritchie, David G. (David George), Mrs.

HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: note - see individual country entries of member states HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: note - see individual country entries of member states HIV/AIDS - deaths: note - see individual country entries of member states Religions: Roman Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Muslim, Jewish Languages: Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Gaelic, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish note: only official languages are listed; German, the major language of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, is the most widely spoken mother tongue - over 19% of the EU population; English is the most widely spoken language - about 49% of the EU population is conversant with it (2007) Government European Union Union name: conventional long form: European Union abbreviation: EU Political structure: a hybrid intergovernmental and supranational organization Capital: name: Brussels (Belgium), Strasbourg (France), Luxembourg geographic coordinates: 50 50 N, 4 20 E time difference: UTC+1 (6 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time) daylight saving time: +1hr, begins last Sunday in March; ends last Sunday in October note: the Council of the European Union meets in Brussels, Belgium, the European Parliament meets in Brussels and Strasbourg, France, and the Court of Justice of the European Communities meets in Luxembourg Member states: 27 countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, UK; note - Canary Islands (Spain), Azores and Madeira (Portugal), French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Reunion (France) are sometimes listed separately even though they are legally a part of Spain, Portugal, and France; candidate countries: Croatia, Macedonia, Turkey Independence:
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Then, too, it was infested with bands of robbers who at times attacked whole pack-trains, to say nothing of one lone, helpless gringo.
— from Vagabonding down the Andes Being the Narrative of a Journey, Chiefly Afoot, from Panama to Buenos Aires by Harry Alverson Franck

And as Mr. Edwards further points out, since the day when Lord Campbell's book was published (between forty and fifty years ago), "every old deed or will, to say nothing of other legal papers, dated during the period of William Shakespeare's youth, has been scrutinized over half a dozen shires, and not one signature of the young man has been found.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

It must have been merely the association of any odd circumstance with the sinister nature of our location and mission, for surely the circumstance was not in itself frightful or unnatural.
— from The Shunned House by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

"Whoever has eyes to see and ears to hear, knows the views of the gentlemen belonging to the old city families, who are reared from infancy as future magistrates; and I speak not only of Leyden, but the residents of Gouda and Delft, Rotterdam and Dortrecht.
— from The Burgomaster's Wife — Volume 03 by Georg Ebers