“Why, sir, I had to come to Brox'on to deliver some work, and I thought it but right to call and let you know the goins-on as there's been i' the village, such as I hanna seen i' my time, and I've lived in it man and boy sixty year come St. Thomas, and collected th' Easter dues for Mr. Blick before Your Reverence come into the parish, and been at the ringin' o' every bell, and the diggin' o' every grave, and sung i' the choir long afore Bartle Massey come from nobody knows where, wi' his counter-singin' and fine anthems, as puts everybody out but himself—one takin' it up after another like sheep a-bleatin' i' th' fold.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

Replied Har, explaining, that as soon as the streams, that are called the Elivogs, had come so far from their source that the venomous yeast which flowed with them hardened, as does dross that runs from the fire, then it turned into ice.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

Carl V. Voit, [204] the German physiological chemist, says this about coffee: The effect of coffee is that we are bothered less by unpleasant experiences and become more able to conquer difficulties; therefore, for the feasting rich, it makes intestinal work after a meal less evident and drives away the deadly ennui; for the student it is a means to keep wide awake and fresh;
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

They sit together and chat, they exchange village gossip, the only difference being that the chief is always on his guard, and much more reticent and diplomatic than the other, though he is no less interested.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

The odour of the flowers says they are corpses; the evening bell tolls for the dead!”
— from Andersen's Fairy Tales by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

The thought suggests itself that this may be because the ether waves set up by the vibrating molecules conflict with the ether strain which is regarded by some theorists as constituting the electrical "current."
— from A History of Science — Volume 5 by Edward Huntington Williams

Throughout his career at school he never failed to win any prize he tried for, and when he left, it was with scholarships that almost covered the expenses of his time at Cambridge.
— from The Ffolliots of Redmarley by L. Allen (Lizzie Allen) Harker

And from behind a kind of barrel-shaped opening came a voice so tragic and compelling that even old Liza, stopping short, turned an inquiring eye toward the source of the disturbance.
— from The Loves of Ambrose by Margaret Vandercook

"I want to donate something to a cause that employs a man like you.
— from The Man of the Desert by Grace Livingston Hill

Huber stated that ants collected the eggs of the aphides and tended them in their nests, and the accuracy of the observation has been shown by Lord Avebury and others.
— from Animal Behaviour by C. Lloyd (Conwy Lloyd) Morgan

Then she directed him to take pasteboard and glue and make three large castles; and calling up three large griffins, she tied a castle to each, and away they flew up into the air.
— from Stories from the Pentamerone by Giambattista Basile