Tingálun ang bátang purgahun, If you give a child a purgative, you have to force it down his throat.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The average man cannot cut clay into the shape of a man; but he can cut earth into the shape of a garden; and though he arranges it with red geraniums and blue potatoes in alternate straight lines, he is still an artist; because he has chosen.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

“So help me God,” said he, after a brief pause, “I will tell you all
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

279 "Not at all; you are sixteen now, quite old enough to be my confidant, and my experience will be useful to you by and by, perhaps, in your own affairs of this sort."
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

I loved that boy passionately; perhaps with a blind partiality: I denied him nothing.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

batung n net used for trapping animals by placing it across the path or dropping it over the animal.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Re. 7.10; a being placed in a condition of salvation by an embracing of the Gospel, Ro. 10.1, 10. 2 Ti. 3.15; means or opportunity of salvation, Ac. 13.26.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

At the same time, under your peculiar circumstances, I think if you were in a crack regiment, you would, in all probability, have to fight one half the mess, and be put in Coventry by the other.
— from Japhet in Search of a Father by Frederick Marryat

The author has been aided in preparing his account of the battle by written statements from Colonel David Morrison, Captain William T. Lusk, and Captain Robert Armour, of the 79th Highlanders; Lieutenant Samuel N. Benjamin and Captain George E. Randolph, who commanded the two batteries engaged; Colonel Elijah Walker, of the 4th Maine, and Colonel Moses B. Lakeman, of the 3d Maine; and by personal interviews with these officers and many others, including Lieutenant H.G. Belcher, who participated in the engagement.
— from The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume 2 (of 2) by Hazard Stevens

A bay presented itself where the sea broke with less force.
— from Arctic Adventures by William Henry Giles Kingston

Studied in Italy and Belgium, and became professor in the University of Jassy, Moldavia.
— from A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations by J. M. (Joseph Mazzini) Wheeler

We've got a big pull in the weights and that'll count in the last quarter.
— from Old Man Curry: Race Track Stories by Charles E. (Charles Emmett) Van Loan

Cities have always been powers in history.
— from A History of the City of Brooklyn and Kings County, Volume II. by Stephen M. Ostrander

It is because the formation of new habits becomes increasingly difficult after the sixteenth or seventeenth year that narrow prejudices and biased opinions should be avoided by participation in the broadest variety of activities and associations.
— from Your Child: Today and Tomorrow Some Problems for Parents Concerning Punishment, Reasoning, Lies, Ideals and Ambitions, Fear, Work and Play, Imagination, Social Activities, Obedience, Adolescence, Will, Heredity by Sidonie Matsner Gruenberg