Gisumbag pa sa salbáhis nga bána ang íyang asáwa nga ipálid gánig hangínun, The wife was so thin she could have been blown over by a gust of wind, but that didn’t stop her brute of a husband from boxing her.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

So I to the office and among other business prepared a deed for him to sign and seale to me about our agreement, which at night I got him to come and sign and seale, and so he and I to Glanville’s, and there he and I sat talking and playing with Mrs. Penington, whom we found undrest in her smocke and petticoats by the fireside, and there we drank and laughed, and she willingly suffered me to put my hand in her bosom very wantonly, and keep it there long.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Bishop discovered a new inert gas, heavier than Xenon.
— from Competition by James Causey

I am sure, Flora," continued Vyvyan kindly, "that the mere acquaintance of such a man has done you much good; and I am now in great hopes that, whenever you marry, it will be a man of sense."
— from What Will He Do with It? — Volume 07 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

There is a young man,—a student, who lives in the next house,—and every day at noon I give him ten lepta to read the whole newspaper to me.
— from Under Greek Skies by Ioulia D. Dragoume

I am sure, Flora,” continued Vyvyan kindly, “that the mere acquaintance of such a man has done you much good; and I am now in great hopes that, whenever you marry, it will be a man of sense.”
— from What Will He Do with It? — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

"Nature is a priori " (everything individual in it is pre-determined by the whole, by the Idea of a nature in general); hence the forms of nature can be deduced from the concept of nature.
— from History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg

So I to the office and among other business prepared a deed for him to sign and seale to me about our agreement, which at night I got him to come and sign and seale, and so he and I to Glanville's, and there he and I sat talking and playing with Mrs. Penington, whom we found undrest in her smocke and petticoats by the fireside, and there we drank and laughed, and she willingly suffered me to put my hand in her bosom very wantonly, and keep it there long.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1665 N.S. by Samuel Pepys

For two days the girl had been expecting the word, and nevertheless, it gave her the effect of a sudden, unexpected revelation.
— from The Cabin [La barraca] by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez