La reĝo malfermis la buŝon pro surprizo, kaj diris al si "Kiam antaŭe mi vidis tiom da pacienco!
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

ivisisi’una he ritually eats, boge already itatatuva he tremble kana his bisila, pandanus streamer, kana his wayugo.”
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Magbulan akug bátà pagtrápu sa kutsi, I’ll hire a child to keep the car washed. pa-(→)
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Oni laŭdis nur personojn, kiuj bone rajdis kaj batalis per sagoj kaj pafarkoj.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

And amid all these scintillating points of light one bright planet shone kindly and steadily like the face of an old friend.
— from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

However, insurrection, riot, and points of difference between the former and the latter,—the bourgeois, properly speaking, knows nothing of such shades.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

There wait embower'd, while I ascend alone To great Alcinous on his royal throne. Arrived, advance, impatient of delay, And to the lofty palace bend thy way: The lofty palace overlooks the town, From every dome by pomp superior known; A child may point the way.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

Beanspruchung physical strain körperliche
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

“I never felt fully satisfied about Miss Morton and her burned paper,” said Kitty thoughtfully.
— from The Clue by Carolyn Wells

Her motive being curiosity, not desperation, she did not wish to involve herself in anything that would lay her open to social obloquy; she would not risk her escapade being discovered by people she knew.
— from Dust: A Novel by Julian Hawthorne

She was to enter on her novitiate on the morrow; but even had delay been possible she knew that both the civil and religious authorities would sustain her family in their course.
— from The Valley of Decision by Edith Wharton

The debt would be paid, she knew well enough, but still it was asking a favor, and the idea of being obligated to a stranger, was galling to her proud and sensitive nature.
— from The Trials of the Soldier's Wife A Tale of the Second American Revolution by Alex. St. Clair (Alexander St. Clair) Abrams

Steaming vegetable soup, roast pigeons, roasted ducks, several boiled fowl with wild rice, a cold beef pie, several kinds of cheese, tarts and pies, jams and preserves.
— from Mr. Wicker's Window by Carley Dawson

Ahenobarbus might have his debts paid by his father, and forego risk and crime if he did not absolutely need Drusus's fortune; but Pratinas, she knew, must have planned to secure rich pickings of his own, and if Ahenobarbus married permanently, all these were lost; and the Greeks never turned back or let another turn back, when there was a fortune before them.
— from A Friend of Cæsar: A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. by William Stearns Davis

The musicians seemed to be playing "Sweet Kitty Clover," with variations.
— from Life in Mexico by Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis) Calderón de la Barca

But whether or not one is a collector, every lover of beautiful porcelain should know something of Chelsea’s interesting story.
— from The Pleasures of Collecting by Gardner C. Teall

After tortures too various and horrible to be particularized, some kind wound closes the scene in death, and the victim's scalp is lodged among the trophies of the tribe.
— from The Conquest of Canada, Vol. 1 by George Warburton

From the mines of Mars the ashment came, the best paving surface known to man.
— from The Mighty Dead by William Campbell Gault