Musugut lagi siya basta ayúhun lag kumbinsǐr, He will consent to it if you do a good job of convincing him.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

A great battle began, which was both hard and long; but at last King Harald gained the day.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

3. A wagon whose yoke was tied to the pole by a large knot had been put in the middle of the temple.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

Good bye," and Lillian, kissing her hand to her companion, glided through the open door and away out of sight.
— from Lily Pearl and The Mistress of Rosedale by Ida Glenwood

But he paid no regard to all this, nor shewed any inclination to return to us, until the imperial viceroy, convinced at last of his obstinacy, told him in the emperor's name, that he ought to return; for that his imperial majesty could not by any law keep him from us, nor, during the present war with Turkey, and also in Italy with Spain, embroil himself with us upon his account.
— from The History of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia by Voltaire

Jim discoursed for some time about his experiences, but at length Koko had to hasten away to fulfil an engagement, and so Jim locked up his surgery and bent his steps homewards.
— from Jim Mortimer by R. S. Warren (Robert Stanley Warren) Bell

On one occasion, he did not shrink from a she-bear that attacked him, but, in grappling with her, was dragged from off his horse, and received some wounds, the scars of which were visible on his body, but at last killed her.
— from The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis by Xenophon

I'm your foreman, they was your horses—" "Such things have to be," she broke in, making an effort to be decisive and convincing, but her voice was not just steady and Beck, at least, knew how desperately she tried to play up to her part, to smother her impulse to show that she held life dearer than she did her property, to shrink from the hard facts of the hard life she faced.
— from The Last Straw by Harold Titus

The girl seems dazed, but at length knows her friends.
— from Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 by Levi Jackson Hamilton

It is improbable that Hartley Coleridge would ever have been a great poet: he might, if Fate or even if the Oriel dons had been a little kinder, have been a great critic.
— from A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by George Saintsbury