To share lodgings with a brilliant dinner-companion, or to see your favorite politician in the Ministry, may bring about changes quite as rapid: in these cases too we begin by knowing little and believing much, and we sometimes end by inverting the quantities.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

fremsumnes f. benefit, benignity, kindness, liberality .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Barat na kaáyu nang bayhána, bísan kinsa lang ang ubanan, That woman is very cheap.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

I have locked them and, in my opinion, they would be better kept locked for the present.”
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

Their backward bent knees, like the hinder legs of a goat.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

'The night on which Leonards was last seen at the station—when he was last seen on duty, in fact—Miss Hale was there, walking about with a young man who, Betsy believes, killed Leonards by some blow or push.'
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Bacha’an Pawang handak membuka Panggong main Ma’yong Al-salam ʿaleikum, ibu deri bumi bapa ka langit!
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

The two houses voted, that by the ancient and fundamental laws of the realm the government was and ought to be by king, lords, and commons; they invited Charles to come and receive the crown to which he was born; and, to relieve his more urgent necessities, they sent him a present of fifty thousand pounds, with ten thousand pounds for his brother the duke of York, and five [Footnote 1: Lords' Journ.
— from The History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of King George the Fifth Volume 8 by Hilaire Belloc

He was later brought before King Lamoni, who asked him if he were desirous of living with his people, the Lamanites.
— from Mother Stories from the Book of Mormon by William A. Morton

I wanted to begin to talk about my business, but Krakow laid his hand on my shoulder and said: "After the coffee!"
— from Iolanthe's Wedding by Hermann Sudermann

After the review Napoleon entered the palace, where the entire deputation awaited him in an immense hall, still unfurnished, though it had been built by King Louis, and without changing his clothing gave audience to all who were eager to congratulate him, and listened with most exemplary patience to the harangues addressed to him.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

The brilliant are more common on the prairie, but both kinds loved this place.
— from Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 by Margaret Fuller

[245] Mr. Wheeler is a younger brother of J. Talboys Wheeler, the eminent writer on the classics, but better known latterly as the Historian of India.
— from Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present by Le Moine, J. M. (James MacPherson), Sir

In her introduction to the "Ballad Book," Katharine Lee Bates says, "For these primitive folk-songs, which have done so much to educate the poetic sense in the fine peasantry of Scotland—that peasantry which has produced an Ayreshire Ploughman and an Ettric Shepherd—are assuredly, "'Thanks to the human heart by which it lives,' among the best educators that can be brought into our schoolrooms."
— from Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School by Charles A. (Charles Alexander) McMurry