Humara (ihumad) ang humay úsà hipúsa, Clean the rice and let it dry partially before you store it.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

In the first moments of rebellion, when Arnold of Brescia had inflamed their minds against the church, the Romans artfully labored to conciliate the favor of the empire, and to recommend their merit and services in the cause of Cæsar.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

A woman in a pink frock, with a scarlet sunshade, crossed the road, a little white dog running like a fleck of light about her.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Nothing was easier than to take one's mind in one's hand, and ask one's psychological friends what they made of it, and the more because it mattered so little to either party, since their minds, whatever they were, had pretty nearly ceased to reflect, and let them do what they liked with the small remnant, they could scarcely do anything very new with it.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

The closing chapters, for instance, give, not only a reliable account of the results of Bering's voyage of discovery in the North Pacific, and valuable scientific information concerning the remarkable animal life on Bering Island, where, before Bering's frail ship was dashed upon its shores, no human foot had trod, but they also portray in vivid colors the tragic events that brought this greatest of geographical enterprises to a close.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

"Where did you find 'em?" said Coggan, turning round and leaping upon the hedge without waiting for an answer.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

A grown, middle-aged man—a man dressed in black, and looking as stiff as a poker—suddenly takes the floor and begins shuffling his feet about, while another man, even though conversing with a companion on important business, will, the while, keep capering to right and left like a billy-goat!
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

The wind had risen, that icy wind that cracks the rocks and leaves nothing alive on those deserted heights, and it came in sudden gusts, which were more parching and more deadly than the burning wind of the desert, and again Ulrich shouted: “Gaspard!
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

So home and to the office, there to end my letters, and so home, where Betty Turner was to see my wife, and she being gone I to my chamber to read a little again, and then after supper to bed.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

"The Germans advanced in such force that we were at last compelled to retire, and lost a lot of jolly good fellows.
— from With the Scottish Regiments at the Front by Evelyn Charles Vivian

Through it he rode like a madman, scattering the swarthy little half-naked children to right and left beneath his horse's feet.
— from Katerfelto: A Story of Exmoor by G. J. (George John) Whyte-Melville

How little she had guessed, when she had first come to Redlands, and looked at it with so much interest, what it would mean to her!
— from Head of the Lower School by Dorothea Moore

By directing the force exerted by what might now be called the propelling part of the engines against the mountain masses which they crossed to right and left and behind, Redgrave was able to take a zigzag course that carried them over many of the walled plains which were wholly or partially lit up by the sun, and in nearly all of the deepest their telescopes revealed something like what they had found within the crater of Tycho.
— from A Honeymoon in Space by George Chetwynd Griffith

“I have not yet come to regard a large 33 sum of money as a kind of virtue, or the want of it as a crime.”
— from A Rose of a Hundred Leaves: A Love Story by Amelia E. Barr

But, before the end of the evening, I became a little tired of the affected softness and effeminacy of his manners, and the exaggerated compliments he paid me, which had the effect of making all the company turn round and look at me.
— from The Grey Woman and other Tales by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

She crossed the room and laid a light hand on Jaffery's head.
— from Jaffery by William John Locke

In fact, nature never yet gave to man a remedy capable of more extensive application, nor better calculated to relieve a larger class of diseases.
— from A Guide to the Virginia Springs Giving, in addition to the routes and distances, a description of the springs and also of the natural curiosities of the state by J. J. (John Jennings) Moorman