Ayaw palabii ug larga sa tugut ang tabánug, Don’t pay out the string of your kite too much.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

III There was an auntient house ° not farre away, 20 Renowmd throughout the world for sacred lore, And pure unspotted life: so well they say It governd was, and guided evermore, Through wisedome of a matrone grave and hore Whose onely joy was to relieve the needes 25 Of wretched soules, and helpe the helpelesse pore: All night she spent in bidding of her bedes, And all the day in doing good and godly deedes.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

Keep with those of thine own kind, and pick up little spiders and caterpillars from the trees, or the house, and then thou wilt live long in peace."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

She was very tidy as she moved about, picking up little scraps of holly.
— from The Golden Scarecrow by Hugh Walpole

The galley is a favorite place of resort for her, to which she retires as one would to a summer-house, and where, inhaling the fumes from a cooking-stove of a very warm temperament, she converses with the cook (as well as I can learn) on cosmography, and picks up little separate bits of geography like disjointed fragments of several different dissected maps.
— from James Russell Lowell, A Biography; vol. 1/2 by Horace Elisha Scudder

But the idea of acting with the army in Asia against Pharnabazus, under Lacedæmonian sanction, was probably very acceptable to him.
— from History of Greece, Volume 09 (of 12) by George Grote

That would indeed crown this romantic night; and, picking up Lily's shoe, he held it for a while, wondering about its secrets.
— from Sinister Street, vol. 2 by Compton MacKenzie

Yer head’s all powdered up like Squire Winkum’s footman.’
— from The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam by George Manville Fenn

“But my 'gingerbread boy,” cried Phronsie, running eagerly along with a particularly ugly looking specimen of a cake figure in her hand, “is the be-yew-tifullest, isn't it, Polly?” “Oh, dear,” groaned Polly, “it looks just awfully, don't it, Ben!”
— from Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney

Annuaire météorologique, contenant l’exposé des probabilités acquises par une longue suite d’observations sur l’état du ciel et sur les variations de l’atmosphère, etc.
— from Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work by A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard

The artist sighed a plaintive, uncomplaining little sigh and shrugged his shoulders with an air of hopelessness.
— from The Laughing Cavalier: The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

I. That after prisoners under long sentences have undergone a period of separate confinement, the remainder of their sentences ought to be passed under a system of combined labor, with effectual precautions against intercourse.
— from The Pennsylvania Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy, April 1853 by Pennsylvania Prison Society