Can you reach the other side with a raft?
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The Journal Officiel said: 'The President of the Republic died yesterday at 10 P.M. , struck down with apoplexie foudroyante .' How could you reconcile that official statement of sudden death with what you have just told me; at seven o'clock the President already thought himself dying and sent for a priest.
— from My Memoirs by Marguerite Steinheil

"Nothing that concerns you," replied the officer, scornfully.
— from The Works of Honoré de Balzac: About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita, and Other Stories by Honoré de Balzac

How can you really think of such a thing?
— from Hero Tales and Legends of the Serbians by Woislav M. Petrovitch

Nor let the child, with looks askance, Find out its sad inheritance From souls that held no happiness, Of home, where love is seldom guest; But in his coming years retain This one sweet night that had no pain; The skeleton’s behind the door.
— from The Fairy Changeling and Other Poems by Dora Sigerson Shorter