“The name of its (the country of Palembang’s) river was Muartatang (Muartenang ?) into which falls another river named Sungey Malayu (Malay River), near the source of which is a mountain named the mountain Sagantang Maha Miru ( v. p. 2, supra ).
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

He also spake kindly to the multitude from an elevated seat and a throne of gold, and returned them thanks for the zeal they had shown about his father's funeral, and the submission they had made to him, as if he were already settled in the kingdom; but he told them withal, that he would not at present take upon him either the authority of a king, or the names thereto belonging, until Caesar, who is made lord of this whole affair by the testament, confirm the succession; for that when the soldiers would have set the diadem on his head at Jericho, he would not accept of it; but that he would make abundant requitals, not to the soldiers only, but to the people, for their alacrity and good-will to him, when the superior lords [the Romans] should have given him a complete title to the kingdom; for that it should be his study to appear in all things better than his father. 2.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

But we're all right now.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

ROUNDS, shirt collars—apparently a mere shortening of “All Rounds,” or “All Rounders,” names of fashionable collars.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

Wisdom only can direct the management of a great estate, that can derive a sound income from the same, that can acquire wealth of a real, not a fictitious, order while also fulfilling the duties of a citizen and thereby earning the respect of the Russian public.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Alexander refused negotiations because he felt himself to be personally insulted.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

“Oh, don't cry—don't,” said Phyllis, “it's all right now,” and she patted him on one big, broad shoulder, while Peter conscientiously thumped the other.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

But one might be married to papa and Pavel Andreyitch after all: they have gold watch-chains and nice suits, their boots are always polished; but to marry that dreadful cabman with a red nose and felt boots. .
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

It should forget civility and consideration and all the other curses of a refined nature.
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

Nag-abísu ang radyu nga adúnay bagyung umaábut, The radio announced that there is a typhoon coming.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

At any rate, no country—Italy excepted—contains a greater number of showy Renaissance palaces in all its principal towns than Spain does; and there can be little doubt that they took the place of Gothic houses to a very considerable extent.
— from Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain by George Edmund Street

She was the only daughter of our village curate, and resided near our family mansion.
— from Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 4 October 1848 by Various

Footnote A: (return) "Norman's New Orleans and Environs."
— from Eight days in New-Orleans in February, 1847 by Albert James Pickett

Then he took a rusty nail that he pulled from the wall of his closet, and, working it patiently with his fingers, pushed it through the partially-bored hole until half its length must have protruded into the other room.
— from The Mission of Poubalov by Frederick R. (Frederick Russell) Burton

It is not quite as easy for a girl to pay her way through as it is for a young man, her opportunities are fewer and as a rule not so good, but even at that I have a feeling that if she desires it strongly enough and puts herself in a position to be worthy of an opportunity it will come quite as surely as to him and she will make a stronger, finer woman for having faced serious problems and grave difficulties and won out over them.
— from College Men Without Money by Carl Brown Riddle

Along the opposite margin of the brook there ran a low paling, which made the water a rather nasty thing to face.
— from The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope

And Recklow now walked on very fast in the dim light until he came to a thinning among the trees where just ahead of him, stars shimmered level in the vast sky-gulf above Alsace.
— from In Secret by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

A rich native in Calcutta has been known to spend more than one hundred thousand dollars on a single festival—the festival of the goddess Karle—and more than thirty thousand dollars every year afterwards during his life, for the same purpose.
— from Dr. Scudder's Tales for Little Readers, About the Heathen. by John Scudder