Dibawah batang lĕpas anjing ku tadi Siah samua sakalian benatang!
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

The keeper quietly proceeded to take out his pipe, fill, and light it, keeping an eye on Tom, who now sat disconsolately across the branch, looking at keeper—a pitiful sight for men and fishes.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

"No harm has been done," said Sancho; "come, we will leave you at your father's house; perhaps they will not have missed you; and another time don't be so childish or eager to see the world; for a respectable damsel should have a broken leg and keep at home; and the woman and the hen by gadding about are soon lost; and she who is eager to see is also eager to be seen; I say no more."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Kalau besar lagi, [ambil] kambing atau kerbau; kalau kechil puaka, telor pun jadi.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Now make you ready, said Merlin, this night ye shall lie with Igraine in the castle of Tintagil; and ye shall be like the duke her husband, Ulfius shall be like Sir Brastias, a knight of the duke's, and I will be like a knight that hight Sir Jordanus, a knight of the duke's.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

If God keeps me in my seven senses, or five, or whatever number I have, I am not going to bring myself to such a pass; go you, brother, and be a government or an island man, and swagger as much as you like; for by the soul of my mother, neither my daughter nor I are going to stir a step from our village; a respectable woman should have a broken leg and keep at home; and to be busy at something is a virtuous damsel's holiday; be off to your adventures along with your Don Quixote, and leave us to our misadventures, for God will mend them for us according as we deserve it.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

This aspect is worthy of particular attention in view of the positive calcium balance noted by Lust and Klocman during the active stage of scurvy, and the negative balance during the period of convalescence.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

—General Baird lands at Kosseir on the Red Sea with 1000 English and 10,000 Sepoys.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

Miss Frankland regained with me my room, her own door being locked, and kissing me tenderly, said I was a bad boy, but she supposed it must eventually have come to this, so it was well it was sooner than later.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

Bert has been leading a kick that was aimed very largely at Dick & Co., and now it almost puts him out of his head to find that Dick Prescott, of all the fellows in the school, has been sent by 'The Blade' to gather the facts concerning Theodore Dodge's mysterious disappearance—-or death."
— from The High School Left End; or, Dick & Co. Grilling on the Football Gridiron by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

It relates the haps and mishaps of a small negro lad, and tells how he was led by love and kindness to a knowledge of the right.
— from Nabul, Our Little Egyptian Cousin by Blanche McManus

He turned, impelled by a strong desire to search the tall cupboard near the stairs and see if any one had concealed himself within, but the dread of being laughed at kept him back, and he followed the woman into a room where a gray-haired man sat, leaning wearily against the back of his chair.
— from McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 5, October 1893 by Various

They conjure up many a bogie, To guard a man's bachelor life, And keep him a selfish old fogey, And stop him from taking a wife.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 8, 1891 by Various

When you kin make two bush'ls corn wu'th a bush'l wheat by law an' keep 'em there, you can fix the rasho 'twixt silver an' gold, an' not before," and the old man shouldered his rake and wandered on up the road.
— from Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile Being a Desultory Narrative of a Trip Through New England, New York, Canada, and the West, By "Chauffeur" by Arthur Jerome Eddy

The author of the "History of the Press-yard" says that Mr. Ratcliffe bribed the officer, "which," as another writer adds, "must be owned to be the readiest way to turn both lock and key."
— from Chronicles of Newgate, Vol. 1 From the twelfth to the eighteenth century by Arthur Griffiths

I am ignorant whether a bishop be chaired like a member of Parliament, or carried in a gilt coach like a lord mayor, or sworn like a justice of peace, or introduced like a peer to the upper house, or led between two brethren like a knight of the garter; but I do know that everything was properly done, and that nothing fit or becoming to a young bishop was omitted on the occasion.
— from Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope

It'll be like a kind of a little separate camp up on the hill; two troops—six patrols."
— from Tom Slade at Black Lake by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

When opening inward the door was secured by a bolt and when opening outward by lock and key.
— from The Historical Child Paidology; The Science of the Child by Oscar Chrisman