Varo vain, ettet hirsipuussa päiviäsi päätä!

Ensimmäiset vuoteni kuluivat leikeissä samanikäisteni kanssa Narvan valleilla. Kun me eräänä päivänä olimme tapamme mukaan sotasilla ja minä muutaman ovelan kujeen avulla olin houkutellut viholliseni ansaan, taputti eräs vanha vartiosotilas, joka hymyillen oli seurannut leikkiämme, minua olalle ja sanoi: »Mitä hyvänsä sinusta, poika, tuleekin, niin varo vain, ettet hirsipuussa päiviäsi päätä!» Myöhemmin johtuivat nuo vanhan sotilaan sanat usein mieleeni, kun kaulani oli vähällä joutua nuoransilmukkaan.

Kyösti Wilkuna: Tapani Löfvingin seikkailut Isonvihan aikana (1918)

Somehow the gentleman disappears

In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women. If a married couple come to settle in the town, somehow the gentleman disappears; he is either fairly frightened to death by being the only man in the Cranford evening parties, or he is accounted for by being with his regiment, his ship, or closely engaged in business all the week in the great neighbouring commercial town of Drumble, distant only twenty miles on a railroad. In short, whatever does become of the gentlemen, they are not at Cranford.

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell: Cranford

An Accursed Race
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Half a Life-Time Ago
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Kun minut kuninkaan poika ottaisi

Oli ennen kolme sisärettä, kylyssä työtä tekivät, niin nousi heidän keskenänsä pakina. - Vanhin sisär sanoo: "kun minut kuninkaan poika ottaisi naiseksensa, niin kolmesta pellavan kuidusta koko linnakunnalle paidat laatisin." - Keskimmäinen sisär sanoo: "kun
minut kuninkaan poika ottaisi akaksensa niin kolmesta vehnäjyvästä linnakunnalle leipää laatisin kyllälteen Kolmas siär sanoo: "kun minut kuninkaan poika ...

Suomen kansan satuja ja tarinoita (1852)

Ratsumies

Pekka Juhani Hannikainen/Rudolph Waldemar Åkerblom: Kuvia lasten elämästä (1882)

Always wondering what is at the end of it

"Who is the Story Girl?" asked Felix.

"Oh, Sara--Sara Stanley. We call her the Story Girl partly because she's such a hand to tell stories--oh, I can't begin to describe it--and partly because Sara Ray, who lives at the foot of the hill, often comes up to play with us, and it is awkward to have two girls of the same name in the same crowd. Besides, Sara Stanley doesn't like her name and she'd rather be called the Story Girl."

Lucy Maud Montgomery: The Story Girl

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The Story Girl

She objects to my doing nothing and having red hair

"I wonder when in the world you're going to do anything, Rudolf?" said my brother's wife.

"My dear Rose," I answered, laying down my egg-spoon, "why in the world should I do anything? My position is a comfortable one. I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know), I enjoy an enviable social position: I am brother to Lord Burlesdon, and brother-in-law to that charming lady, his countess. Behold, it is enough!"

Anthony Hope: The Prisoner of Zenda

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Sitonian?

But it is by no means certain that this meant the Finlanders of Finland, the ancestors of whom were probably Sitonian; i.e., one of the Sitonum gentes mentioned in the last chapter. If so, and if the old Rahwas belonged to the same class, the description of the Sitones is the description of the Ugrians of the Gulphs of Finland and Bothnia, and that of the Fenni the description of some other population.

Robert Gordon Latham: The native races of the Russian empire (1854)