" Then the grandfather nodded to a place above the looking-glass, where hung an almanac, with a representation of the Round Tower upon it, and said "Tycho Brahe was another of those who used a sword, but not one to cut into the flesh and bone, but to make the way of the stars of heaven clear, and plain to be understood.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

"I brought her with me for the sake of her company on the road," said she.
— from Grimm's Fairy Stories by Wilhelm Grimm

His school overcoat, his cap, his snowboots, and the hair on his temples were all white with frost, and his whole figure from head to foot diffused such a pleasant, fresh smell of the snow that the very sight of him made one want to shiver and say “brrr!”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The Secretary of his Chancery was little Grignac, a young fellow, as malicious as Satan, and who made caricatures of Tapeworm in all the albums of the place.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

“Oh, my mother!” exclaimed Albert, so overcome he could scarcely speak; “it is not the same with you and me—you cannot have made the same resolution I have, for I have come to warn you that I bid adieu to your house, and—and to you.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

I speak of his compound epithets, and of his repetitions.
— from The Iliad by Homer

We judge some religions as unethical because the mores of which they approve are not our mores, that is, the standards of higher civilization.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

The character and situation of his colleagues and successors sometimes urged them to enforce and sometimes inclined them to suspend, the execution of these rigorous laws; nor can we acquire a just and distinct idea of this important period of ecclesiastical history, unless we separately consider the state of Christianity, in the different parts of the empire, during the space of ten years, which elapsed between the first edicts of Diocletian and the final peace of the church.
— 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

“At this hour and moment, sir,” said Jopp, who, standing hands-pocketed at the street corner till the sun had faded the shoulders of his coat to scarecrow green, had regularly watched Henchard in the market-place, measured him, and learnt him, by virtue of the power which the still man has in his stillness of knowing the busy one better than he knows himself.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

Along both ranges of hills, which bounded the opposite sides of the lake and valley, clouds of light vapor were rising in spiral wreaths from the uninhabited woods, looking like the smoke of hidden cottages; or rolled lazily down the declivities, to mingle with the fogs of the lower land.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

Inner side of hind coxæ without comb or teeth.
— from Handbook of Medical Entomology by O. A. (Oskar Augustus) Johannsen

He has been honored by France, by Italy, and by Japan, and resigned from his great office, in 1909, at page 218 the age of seventy-five, with mental and physical powers in splendid condition, not to retire from active life, but to devote himself even more wholly to the service of his countrymen.
— from American Men of Mind by Burton Egbert Stevenson

52 Java, magical images in, i. 58; ceremonies to procure offspring in, i. 73; belief as to the homoeopathic magic of house timber in, i. 146; charm to produce sleep in, i. 148; treatment of the afterbirth in, i. 192; rain-making in, i. 257 sq. ; ceremonies for preventing rain in, i. 270 sq. ; rain-charm by means of cats in, i. 289; special forms of speech used in addressing social superiors in, i. 402 n. ; modes of deceiving the spirits of plants in, ii. 23; sexual intercourse practised to promote the growth of rice in, ii. 98; ceremony at tapping a palm-tree for wine in, ii. 100 sq. ; custom observed in, when a child is first set on the ground, iii. 34; rice placed on heads of persons after a great danger in, iii. 35; remedy for gout or rheumatism in, iii. 106; the Baduwis of, iii. 115; superstitions as to the head in, iii. 254; everything opened in house to facilitate childbirth in, iii. 297; tabooed words in, iii. 409, 411; the Sultans of, hereditary custom of suicide practised for their benefit, iv.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer

The right sleeve of his coat was empty, and lay pinned across his breast.
— from The Old Man of the Mountain by Herbert Strang

Though living so retired she makes no secret of her connection with the Duke; said he had told her of his conversation with me, and asked what I thought of his plan for draining the marsh of Pontesordo.
— from The Valley of Decision by Edith Wharton

CHAPTER XX HOW SARK CRAVED BLOOD FOR BLOOD CHAPTER XXI HOW LOVE TOOK LOVE TO SANCTUARY CHAPTER XXII HOW THE STARS SANG OF HOPE CHAPTER XXIII HOW NANCE SENT FOOD AND HOPE TO HIM CHAPTER XXIV
— from A Maid of the Silver Sea by John Oxenham