Giwasak sa bátà ang mga inutaw, The baby scattered the ironed clothes.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The winter that followed, my first winter in Genoa, brought forth that sweetness and spirituality which is almost inseparable from extreme poverty of blood and muscle, in the shape of The Dawn of Day, The perfect lucidity and cheerfulness, the intellectual exuberance even, that this work reflects, coincides, in my case, not only with the most profound physiological weakness, but also with an excess of suffering.
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The rocket on display did not fly, because a malfunction in the umbilical cord caused the engine to shut down shortly after ignition.
— from Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution by Lynne C. Murphy

Knowledge, like matter, he would affirm, was divisible in infinitum ;——that the grains and scruples were as much a part of it, as the gravitation of the whole world.—In a word, he would say, error was error,—no matter where it fell,——whether in a fraction,——or a pound,—’twas alike fatal to truth, and she was kept down at the bottom of her well, as inevitably by a mistake in the dust of a butterfly’s wing,——as in the disk of 263 the sun, the moon, and all the stars of heaven put together.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

She stipulated also that if she became a mother in the course of a year the child should be hers in the event of our separating.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

When all things were ready, the horses were driven into the water, one being guided ahead by a man in the canoe.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

The singing of the Easter hymns, the ringing of the bells, the splash of the oars in the water, the calls of the birds, all mingled in the air into something tender and harmonious.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Next, instead of calling out a score of hands to man the stage, a couple of men and a hatful of steam lowered it from the derrick where it was suspended, launched it, deposited it in just the right spot, and the whole thing was over and done with before a mate in the olden time could have got his profanity-mill adjusted to begin the preparatory services.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

An incision of some extent had been actually made in the abdomen, when the fresh and undecayed appearance of the subject suggested an application of the battery.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

No king, prince, or potentate had ever been as big a man in their estimation as the colonel; and they had transferred this homage to the "major," as they were inclined to call Mr. Lyon after they heard the overseer use this title.
— from Brother Against Brother; Or, The War on the Border by Oliver Optic

He hears that there is to be a meeting in the sacred grove on a certain day and begs his beloved to remain away, lest the werewolf come.
— from The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction by Dorothy Scarborough

I have a place for my books and microscope in the chart room, and there I sit and read in the morning much as though I were in my rooms in Agar Street.
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 by Thomas Henry Huxley

Black, white or yellow, the colour makes no difference to me, providing the individual I may have to deal with be a man in the true sense of the word!
— from The Ghost Ship: A Mystery of the Sea by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson

The penalty of being a man is to have to work.
— from The Hungry Heart: A Novel by David Graham Phillips

If, on the other hand, the painter is one to whom the figure as a figure means much; one to whom line and bulk and modelling are the principal means of expression, and who cares for the structure and stress of bone and muscle; if the glow and softness of flesh appeal strongly to him; above all, if he has the human point of view and thinks of his figures as people engaged in certain actions, having certain characters, experiencing certain states of mind and body; then he will give up the struggle with the truths of aspect that seem so vital to the painter of the other type and, by a frank use of conventions, will seek to increase the importance of his figure at the expense of its surroundings.
— from Artist and Public, and Other Essays on Art Subjects by Kenyon Cox

“Within the quiet precincts of these walls you may learn the first rudiments, and within the pale of our order you may become a master in the science.”
— from The Prime Minister by William Henry Giles Kingston

To make This more obvious by a modern Instance: The great Milton likewise labour’d under the like Inconvenience; when he first set upon adorning his own Tongue, he likewise animated and enrich’d it with the Latin , but from his own Stock: and so, rather by bringing in the Phrases, than the Words:
— from Preface to the Works of Shakespeare (1734) by Mr. (Lewis) Theobald

As Florence stood on the vine-curtained terrace one balmy August morning, inhaling the sweet air, and listening to the thrilling warblings of Edith's pet canaries, as they swung in their wire-wrought cages from the roof above, she beheld Willie Danforth coming up the garden path, holding a letter toward her in his cunning, tempting way.
— from Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems by Effie Afton