“'Tis fact,” said he, nodding his head; and I hoped that he would not go mad, like his brother, and kill me.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Dakug pahak ang kík, mu rag gikan-an, There’s a piece missing in my cake.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

1b adtu, ari — ku, mi good-bye.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

It is to run through and knit the superior parts, and keep man or State vital and upright, as health keeps the body straight and blooming.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

And when they go in they go bare-foot, and kneel many times.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

Minarununga (iminarunung) sad nà pagpaági arun ka makabalus, Be cunning about it so you can get revenge.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

ANT: Kindness, mercy, clemency, leniency, justice, [See TYRANNY].
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

But when the chests were let down, and not one of those in the mouths of the caves durst come near them, but lay still out of fear, some of the armed men girt on their armor, and by both their hands took hold of the chain by which the chests were let down, and went into the mouths of the caves, because they fretted that such delay was made by the robbers not daring to come out of the caves; and when they were at any of those mouths, they first killed many of those that were in the mouths with their darts, and afterwards pulled those to them that resisted them with their hooks, and tumbled them down the precipices, and afterwards went into the caves, and killed many more, and then went into their chests again, and lay still there; but, upon this, terror seized the rest, when they heard the lamentations that were made, and they despaired of escaping.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

One day the master said to the shadow, "We have grown up together from our childhood, and now that we have become travelling companions, shall we not drink to our good fellowship, and say thee and thou to each other?" "What you say is very straightforward and kindly meant," said the shadow, who was now really master.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

I can sympathize with you, for my own life has its waste places, but I try to look over them and keep my eyes as much as I can on the flowery hills beyond.
— from Zula by H. Esselstyn Lindley

I consulted as good a physician as there was in the county, and he told me that I was suffering from enlargement of the heart and that I must be very careful about taking: any violent exercise, and I must not allow myself to get excited, as excitement of any kind might prove fatal.
— from The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand by Ray Vaughn Pierce

"I am Kitty Malone, at your service," continued Kitty.
— from Wild Kitty by L. T. Meade

Baldock, learn this of me: a factious lord Shall hardly do himself good, much less us; But he that hath the favour of a king May with one word advance us while we live.
— from Edward the Second by Christopher Marlowe

Amundsen knew much about cold lands of ice and snow as he had always lived in Norway.
— from Near the Top of the World: Stories of Norway, Sweden & Denmark by Nelle E. Moore

They were club and knife men, of course, wearing no armour.
— from Ned, the son of Webb: What he did. by William O. Stoddard

The latest sacrilege, including the turning of the temple into a mosque, was in the time of the Ahmadábád king Muzaffar Sháh II. ( a.d. 1511–1535).
— from History of Gujarát Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Volume I, Part I. by James M. Campbell

They are kept mostly by amateurs.
— from Bees by Everett Franklin Phillips

JUNE 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 There lives a glory in these sweet June days Such as I found not in the days gone by, A kindlier meaning in the unclouded sky, A tenderer whisper in the woodland ways;
— from Leaves of Life, for Daily Inspiration by Margaret Bird Steinmetz

You should have given me time, Rule, to recover my senses and keep my vow."
— from For Woman's Love by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth