Milikyad ang playwud nga giparka sa sakayan, The plywood they used to wall the boat curled at the edges.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Gilubdan ang putì nga giságul sa dikulur, When the white and the colored clothing were washed together, the colors ran onto the white cloth.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Nahamug ang panaptun nga gipabuntagan sa gawas, The cloth that was left outside overnight got wet.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Kadaíya man lang ang prútas nga gibaligyà sa karbun, Fruits of various kinds are sold in the market.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Here is a penny; now go—” “A penny cannot feed me, and I have no strength to go farther.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Hence, although pleaders now generally [83] allege intent or negligence, anything which would formerly have been sufficient to charge a defendant in trespass is still sufficient, notwithstanding the fact that the ancient form of action and declaration has disappeared.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Precisely the same explanation which the landlord in Northumberland Street had given to Mr. Godfrey, the landlord in Alfred Place now gave to Mr. Luker.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Igúnaw (gunáwa) sa túbig ang pulbus nga gátas, Dissolve the powdered milk in water.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Let us pass over all the little impediments of the road,—the horse-shoes and the blacksmiths, and the trouble about a pass from Dover to Calais, which, as the relations between France and England had become much more amicable, presented no great difficulties after all,—and let us carry Edward at once to the gates of Paris, where the gay and glittering crowd was as dense and perhaps more brilliant in those days than it is in ours.
— from Lord Montagu's Page: An Historical Romance by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

While as a layman, one can not but feel that a specialist’s estimate may run unduly high because of the fact that he is encountering an inordinate proportion of such maladies every day, still such specialists are in position to get at the truth as no other person can and their calculations are probably not grossly in error.
— from Being Well-Born: An Introduction to Eugenics by Michael F. (Michael Frederic) Guyer

When his father went to Paris in 1852, Maxime remained at school at Plassans, not going to Paris till after his father’s second marriage.
— from A Zola Dictionary; the Characters of the Rougon-Macquart Novels of Emile Zola; by J. G Patterson

“Some since have sought to blast his memory by reporting him a papist; no great crime to such who consider the time when he was born, and foreign places wherein he was bred: however this I dare say in his just defence, he never mentioneth protestants, but with due respect, and sometimes, occasionally, doth condemn the superstitious credulity of popish miracles....
— from Cambridge by M. A. R. (Mildred Anna Rosalie) Tuker

Parliament, which was already exasperated by the Queen's intervention on behalf of a priest named Goodman who had been condemned to die, and who was particularly odious to the Puritans as the brother of the Romanizing Bishop of Gloucester, determined to strike at those through whom it knew that it could wound Henrietta.
— from Henrietta Maria by Henrietta Haynes

And perhaps no greater tribute could be paid to Baden-Powell's greatness than Dr. Haig-Brown paid him in a few words, words which convey a great and deep meaning—"He was a boy whose word you could not doubt."
— from Baden-Powell of Mafeking by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher