He said he had been longing to see us so much; and he remained with us two whole happy days.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Her stepmother sent her out every day to sit by the well in the high road, there to spin until she made her fingers bleed.
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

If it will please you To show us so much gentry and good will As to expend your time with us awhile, For the supply and profit of our hope, Your visitation shall receive such thanks As fits a king’s remembrance.
— from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare

Miss Jenkyns did not like to cut the fruit; for, as she observed, the juice all ran out nobody knew where; sucking (only I think she used some more recondite word) was in fact the only way of enjoying oranges; but then there was the unpleasant association with a ceremony frequently gone through by little babies; and so, after dessert, in orange season, Miss Jenkyns and Miss Matty used to rise up, possess themselves each of an orange in silence, and withdraw to the privacy of their own rooms to indulge in sucking oranges.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

"I do not understand it," said Don Quixote; but one of the guards said to him, "Sir, to sing under suffering means with the non sancta fraternity to confess under torture; they put this sinner to the torture and he confessed his crime, which was being a cuatrero, that is a cattle-stealer, and on his confession they sentenced him to six years in the galleys, besides two hundred lashes that he has already had on the back; and he is always dejected and downcast because the other thieves that were left behind and that march here ill-treat, and snub, and jeer, and despise him for confessing and not having spirit enough to say nay; for, say they, 'nay' has no more letters in it than 'yea,' and a culprit is well off when life or death with him depends on his own tongue and not on that of witnesses or evidence; and to my thinking they are not very far out."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

But this very process tends to set up subject matter as something of value just by itself, apart from its function in promoting the realization of the meanings implied in the present experience of the immature.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

By and by Circumstance and the Sacramento union sent me to the Sandwich Islands for five or six months, to write up sugar.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

Can there be worse husbandry than to set up so many certain and knowing vices against errors that are only contested and disputable?
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

The stratagem was good while it was unsuspected, but after that the marauders simply gave the sagacious United States mail an emetic and sat down to wait.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Did not the slaveowners of the Southern United States maintain the same doctrine, with all the fanaticism with which men cling to the theories that justify their passions and legitimate their personal interests?
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

—The commissioners may by order under their seal, unite so many townlands as they think fit to be a union for the relief of the destitute poor; and may add to, take from, or dissolve the same, and may determine the proportionate amount chargeable in any such case, as shall appear to them to be just.
— from A history of the Irish poor law, in connexion with the condition of the people by Nicholls, George, Sir

Love, like the seed of the Auricula, must be sown on snow; both are warmed through by ice itself, and then spring up so much the more vigorously.–You must never give yourselves as a mere present, but as a lady's acknowledgment of thanks to her knight.–You receive and deserve exactly as much respect as you demand, and you can, though you should be alloyed as much as you pleased, take your mint-die or coin-stamp out of your pocket and coin yourselves therewith as a lady d'or for one gentleman, or as a miserable little fat-mannikin
— from Hesperus; or, Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography. Vol. II. by Jean Paul

“And there any one could come to see us,” said Marian, clapping her hands.
— from The Athelings; or, the Three Gifts. Complete by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Middle, or northern tropical, America, from the Isthmus of Panama northward into the southern United States; Mississippi ( Audubon ); Texas (Mus.
— from A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 3 of 3 by Robert Ridgway

If possible, therefore, that yawning gulf of the German war, which threatened to swallow up so many millions of ducats, must be closed.
— from The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 by Samuel Rawson Gardiner

He was much better, and he wanted to see us so much that Miss Yvonne sent over the servant to tell us that we three could come over (Dave had gone yesterday), but that we all had better not see him at once.
— from Three Sides of Paradise Green by Augusta Huiell Seaman

la Duchesse would not reply to his questions, but [Pg 181] after he was released and able to stand up she made him give her a brief account of his adventure.
— from The Bronze Eagle: A Story of the Hundred Days by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

When the difficulties arose among the exiles at Frankfort, in Mary's reign, about the use of King Edward's Liturgy, they asked advice of Calvin, "who having perused the English Liturgy, took notice, 'that there were many tolerable weaknesses in it, which, because at first they could not be amended, were to be suffered; but that it behooved the learned, grave, and godly ministers of Christ to enterprise farther, and to set up something more filed from rust, and purer.'
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe