Daghag hubag ang náwung sa pinaakan, He has swellings all over the face where he was bitten.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

For my part, I cannot say what I believed—indeed I don’t know to this day, and never shall probably.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

‘Are you at home?’ asked Newman, suddenly popping in his head.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

In his godown there are now seven persons; one of them a child.
— from Nil Darpan; or, The Indigo Planting Mirror, A Drama. Translated from the Bengali by a Native. by Dinabandhu Mitra

The submarine flora struck me as being very perfect, and richer even than it would have been in the arctic or tropical zones, where these productions are not so plentiful.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

It is an excellent remedy for vicious juices which lie furring the tunicle of the stomach, and such idle fancies and symptoms which the brain suffers thereby, whereby some think they see, others that they hear strange things, especially when they are in bed, and between sleeping and waking; besides this, it very gently purges the belly, and helps such women as are not sufficiently purged after their travail.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

'He's a comical old fellow,' said Scrooge's nephew, 'that's the truth; and not so pleasant as he might be.
— from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

The plays of Middleton are not so properly divisible into tragic and comic as into realistic and romantic—into plays of which the mainspring is essentially prosaic or photographic, and plays of which the mainspring is principally fanciful or poetical.
— from The Age of Shakespeare by Algernon Charles Swinburne

The second is much easier, but the results, while good to eat, are not so pleasing in looks or consistency.
— from Candy-Making Revolutionized: Confectionery from Vegetables by Mary Elizabeth Hall

"Do you know what will happen if I fail?" "No; tell me," said Bertha, and now she put down her stocking and looked full into the face of her young companion.
— from A Bunch of Cherries: A Story of Cherry Court School by L. T. Meade

"You wish, in a word, doctor, to prove to me that gluttony is a noble, sublime passion, do you not?" "Sublime, abbé, that is the word, sublime,—if not in itself at least in its consequences; above all, in the interest of agriculture and commerce."
— from Luxury--Gluttony: Two of the Seven Cardinal Sins by Eugène Sue

It consists of a narrow sloping passage, cut through the chalk cliff, and communicating with the beach for the convenience of the fishery formerly carried on in this neighbourhood.
— from The Ports, Harbours, Watering-places and Picturesque Scenery of Great Britain Vol. 2 by W. (William) Finden