"But not another bite of it do you get, if you refuse to do this simple, easy, pleasant job.
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

I, nabuy-an nákù ang básu, Oops, I dropped the glass.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Less important differences occur between wood-wind and brass; in these two groups, therefore, the harmonic basis generally remains an octave removed from the melodic design, and should be of inferior dynamic power.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

‘You’ll soon get the better of it, dear,’ rejoined the friend.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Meantime, of the broken keel of Ahab’s wrecked craft the carpenter made him another leg; while still as on the night before, slouched Ahab stood fixed within his scuttle; his hid, heliotrope glance anticipatingly gone backward on its dial; sat due eastward for the earliest sun.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Kings themselves, not in desperation, but only in difficulty, have sat hatching, for year and day ( nay De Thou says, for seven years ), their Bartholomew Business; and then, at the right moment, also on an Autumn Sunday, this very Bell ( they say it is the identical metal ) of St. Germain l'Auxerrois was set a-pealing—with effect.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Accordingly, officers were appointed by the Cherokee council to take charge of the emigration; the Indians being organized into detachments averaging one thousand each, with two leaders in charge of each detachment, and a sufficient number of wagons and horses for the purpose.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

The union of two successive vowels into a diphthong is equally rare: o and i are combined to oi , oe , in coetus , meeting , by the side of the open form coïtus ( 116, b ); the perfect coepī ( 812 ), I began , owes its diphthong oe to forms in which the e was short and unaccented, such as the rare present forms coepiō for có-ĕpiō ( 813 ); for coḗpi ( 813 , 863 ) would have remained unchanged ( 116, a ).
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

In that spacious HALL , a coalition of the gown, from all the bars of it, driving a damn’d, dirty, vexatious cause before them, with all their might and main, the wrong way!——kicking it out of the great doors, instead of, in ——and with such fury in their looks, and such a degree of inveteracy in their manner of kicking it, as if the laws had been originally made for the peace and preservation of mankind:——perhaps a more enormous mistake committed by them still——a litigated point fairly hung 58 up;——for instance, Whether John o’Nokes his nose could stand in Tom o’Stiles his face, without a trespass, or not—rashly determined by them in five-and-twenty minutes, which, with the cautious pros and cons required in so intricate a proceeding, might have taken up as many months——and if carried on upon a military plan, as your honours know an ACTION should be, with all the stratagems practicable therein,——such as feints,—forced marches, — surprizes — ambuscades — mask-batteries, and a thousand other strokes of generalship, which consist in catching at all advantages on both sides——might reasonably have lasted them as many years, finding food and raiment all that term for a centumvirate of the profession.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

One child, an infant, is still alive, who was found sucking at the breast of its dead mother.
— from In Byways of Scottish History by Louis A. Barbé

[5-iv] The question naturally arises here, whether this process of diffusion, which in modern times is a matter of direct observation, could have been of importance during the earlier periods of human history when means of communication were of a more primitive order.
— from Culture & Ethnology by Robert Harry Lowie

At the commencement should stand the passage from the Book of Invasions, describing the occupation of the isle by Queen Keasair and her companions, and along with it every discoverable tale or poem dealing with this event and those characters.
— from Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. by Standish O'Grady

When a political party or a church claims to be first in regard for righteousness and national well-being it should not think of its own credit or continuance in power but of its duty in the war against injustice and ungodliness.
— from The Expositor's Bible: Judges and Ruth by Robert A. (Robert Alexander) Watson

As a Christian, an Englishman, and a British officer, I did not think it possible he could himself wish to continue a participator in deeds of revolting barbarity, and I concluded that his Government would immediately recall him, and cease all active support of the bloodthirsty Manchoo.
— from Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh: The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume II) by Augustus F. Lindley

A porch was built over its door as a token of thanksgiving when a fleet of British ships on its way to wallop Quebec was wrecked off the mouth of the St. Lawrence.
— from The Border Boys Along the St. Lawrence by John Henry Goldfrap

To this end the Sheriff's messenger was empowered to take stock and inventory of all furniture and belongings and to make note of all things broken or in disrepair, since those would have to be counted against them when they left the place.
— from Robin Hood by Paul Creswick