Ákung giyaákan ang bulingun didtus sapà arun pagkúhà sa primírung buling, I stomped on the soiled clothes in the river to get the dirt on the outside off.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

And so, although it be true that in this world there is no flesh which can suffer pain and yet cannot die, yet in the world to come there shall be flesh such as now there is not, as there will also be death such as now there is not.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

From house to house the Vánar went And marked each varied ornament, Where leaves and blossoms deftly strung About the crystal columns hung.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

And, like a bankrupt debtor sitting, A chance-dropped word may set me sweating!
— from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" "It won't seem so hard by and by, dear," said Anne, who always felt the pain of her friends so keenly that she could not speak easy, fluent words of comforting.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

"And now there was heard a great outcry and lamentation, accompanied by deep sighs and bitter sobs.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

As we have seen, the idea of the tragic hero as a being destroyed simply and solely by external forces is quite alien to him; and not less so is the idea of the hero as contributing to his destruction only by acts in which we see no
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

Let them have their liberty in good sort, and go in good sort, modo non annos viginti aetatis suae domi relinquant , as a good fellow said, so that they look not twenty years younger abroad than they do at home, they be not spruce, neat, angels abroad, beasts, dowdies, sluts at home; but seek by all means to please and give content to their husbands: to be quiet above all things, obedient, silent and patient; if they be incensed, angry, chid a little, their wives must not [6285] cample again, but take it in good part.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

—Down a narrow street, where, “For example!” cried a little young lady in blue, laughing in J——’s very face—for we had turned full in front on a group of girls—while a child clapped her hands at sight of him, and a black dog snapped at his stockings.
— from Our sentimental journey through France and Italy A new edition with Appendix by Joseph Pennell

In a perfect state of public morality he would always be doing so: and in a hundred years’ time he will certainly be more often worthy of public thanks than he is now—he will be less often seeking to impose or defend a wrong.
— from A Hundred Years Hence: The Expectations of an Optimist by T. Baron Russell

A large number of memoirs have also been consulted, including those of the Prince Consort, the Duchess of Teck, Baron Stockmar, Archbishop Magee, Archbishop Benson, Dean Stanley, and Canon Kingsley.
— from His Most Gracious Majesty King Edward VII by Marie Belloc Lowndes

To-morrow, if we come, the engines are half hidden from afar by driving sleet and scattered snow-flakes fleeting aslant the field.
— from The Life of the Fields by Richard Jefferies

[129] The velocity of inversion, also, is variously affected by different solvents, and in some cases, at least, it appears to be slower the more viscous the solvent;
— from The Phase Rule and Its Applications by Alexander Findlay

[Pg 316] impervious by the formation of strong bands or septa which were stretched across it, and which effectually prevented the os uteri from being reached; sponge tents, and oval gum elastic pessaries of different sizes were introduced, and by degrees such a state of dilatation was produced as not only permitted the os uteri to be reached, but restored the vagina in great measure to its natural size.
— from A System of Midwifery by Edward Rigby

It must be evident therefore, that, if the lymphatics in any cavity become debilitated, or by any other means be prevented from absorbing this exhaled fluid, an accumulation of it will take place: the same will happen, if the exhaling arteries be debilitated, so as to allow a greater quantity of fluid to escape than the absorbents can take up.
— from Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease by Thomas Garnett