The enchantress remarked nothing of this, until once Rapunzel said to her: ‘Tell me, Dame Gothel, how it happens that you are so much heavier for me to draw up than the young king’s son—he is with me in a moment.’
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

Now that she had done so the burden of the entertainment rested naturally on his wit.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

The enchantress remarked nothing of this, until once Rapunzel said to her, "Tell me, Dame Gothel, how it happens that you are so much heavier for me to draw up than the young King's son—he is with me in a moment."
— from Grimm's Fairy Stories by Wilhelm Grimm

But there is not now space to treat of these ages; suffice it to say that the seventh shall be our Sabbath, which shall be brought to a close, not by an evening, but by the Lord's day, as an eighth and eternal day, consecrated by the resurrection of Christ, and prefiguring the eternal repose not only of the spirit, but also of the body.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

[450] passage; which, if I do not deceive myself, is very plain; and the purport of it this: After the fabulous accounts, there had been an uninterrupted succession of Piromis after Piromis: and the Egyptians referred none of these to the dynasties of either the Gods or Heroes, who were supposed to have first possessed the country .
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

The enchantress remarked nothing of this, until once Rapunzel said to her, "Tell me, Dame Gothel, how it happens that you are so much heavier for me to draw up than the young King's son—-he is with me in a moment."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

His revised orders brought him to Chattanooga by the established route north of the Tennessee.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

The earliest recorded notion of the earth is the very natural one that it is a flat area floating in an illimitable ocean.
— from Pioneers of Science by Lodge, Oliver, Sir

Not having learnt to appreciate either literature or art, they either read nothing or read stories that are neither true nor decent.
— from Men, Women, and God A Discussion of Sex Questions from the Christian Point of View by A. Herbert (Arthur Herbert) Gray

The examination reveals not only the form and size of the individual germs, but the manner in which they are united with each other, as well as any peculiarities of movement that they may possess.
— from Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying by H. L. (Harry Luman) Russell

[434] Who for the sake of foes a dear one slew, Won by the gold-chased bracelets brought from Crete, The gifts that Minos gave, And knowing not the end, Robbed Nisos of his lock of deathless life, She with her dog-like heart 610 Surprising him deep-breathing in his sleep; But Hermes comes on her.
— from Æschylos Tragedies and Fragments by Aeschylus

What these terms were, we are not told; nor does it appear that the Thebans even received notice of the proceeding.
— from History of Greece, Volume 10 (of 12) by George Grote

I believe that the enemy retain no other military trophy of their victories than the standard of the 4th regiment; they were not magnanimous enough to bring that of the 4th regiment into the field, or it would have been taken.
— from The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by J. F. (Joseph Florimond) Loubat

Of some of these the paid up capital is absurdly small, and the recent collapse of the largest and of two [Pg 158] smaller native banks has drawn attention to the extremely risky nature of the business done.
— from The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir by Douie, James McCrone, Sir