The plain around these springs is barren, with nothing but here and there a stunted kind of eucalyptus tree.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Ayawg tumbi ang sáwug kay basà pa, Don’t step on the floor.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

They often stopped to rest, but only for a short space at a time, and still kept on, having had but slight refreshment since the morning.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

And yet, read at every military post, it served notice on the military that if they knew which side their bread was buttered on, they had better forget everything they knew tending to show the prematurity of the setting-up of the civil government, sheath all tomahawks and scalping knives they might have whetted and waiting for Governor Taft’s exit from office, abstain from chatty letters to United States Senators telling tales out of school, such as the one Senator Bacon had read on the floor of the Senate (already noticed), and dutifully perceive , in the future, that the war was ended, as officially announced in the proclamation itself.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

He added that he had been told by Robert Valbringue, who lately passed that way in his return from Africa, that a sixth kind was to fly hither out of hand, which he called capus-hawks, more grum, vinegar-faced, brain-sick, froward, and loathsome than any kind whatsoever in the whole island.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

A tomahawk and scalping knife, of English manufacture, were in his girdle; while a short military rifle, of that sort with which the policy of the whites armed their savage allies, lay carelessly across his bare and sinewy knee.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

On yonder tree alone there are Sir Key’s, Sir Brandel’s, Sir Marhaus’, Sir Galind’s, and Sir Aliduke’s, and many more; and also my two kinsmen’s shields, Sir Ector de Maris’ and Sir Lionel’s.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

She menaces everything she meets: now she looks as though she would grind to bits the salambaw , insecure fishing apparatus which in their movements resemble skeletons of giants saluting an antediluvian tortoise; now she speeds straight toward the clumps of bamboo or against the amphibian structures, karihan , or wayside lunch-stands, which, amid gumamelas and other flowers, look like indecisive bathers who with their feet already in the water cannot bring themselves to make the final plunge; at times, following a sort of channel marked out in the river by tree-trunks, she moves along with a satisfied air, except when a sudden shock disturbs the passengers and throws them off their balance, all the result of a collision with a sand-bar which no one dreamed was there.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

And they are so kind and thoughtful!
— from The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

It was her thirteenth annual tour, and she knew mankind.
— from Oldport Days by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

When it was proposed and carried in Parliament to employ the savages as the allies of Great Britain,—to hire the savages, with torch and tomahawk and scalping knife, in midnight assault, to burn the log-cabins and butcher the helpless women and children in their lonely homes, far away in the wilderness, hundreds of voices were raised in indignant remonstrance.
— from The Life and Adventures of Rear-Admiral John Paul Jones, Commonly Called Paul Jones by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

The directions we are about to give the reader regarding this portion of his work will be understood by him only if he is fairly well acquainted with the general characters of a flowering plant and with the structure of flowers; and as it would hardly be advisable to assume such knowledge, we shall give a brief outline of this part of the subject, dealing only with those points that are essential to our purpose, and explaining the meaning of those terms which are commonly employed in the description of plants and their flowers.
— from Field and Woodland Plants by William S. Furneaux

And now the room was once more neat and tidy as she knew her friend, Mr. Bustard, would like to see it.
— from Studies in Wives by Marie Belloc Lowndes