Felicitas and Perpetua were stripped, in order to be thrown to a mad bull, which made his first attack upon Perpetua, and stunned her; he then darted at Felicitas, and gored her dreadfully; but not killing them, the executioner did that office with a sword.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

he was all the more horrible to me that he was so much in earnest; “you can't do better nor keep quiet, dear boy.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Now it would done to dewide the North from the south all won what I have Leade down but now keep to gether it is Like man and wife in troue
— from A Pickle for the Knowing Ones by Timothy Dexter

“This passes a jest, my lord,” said De Bracy; “no knight here will lay lance in rest if such an insult is attempted.”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

Kinta ig-adtu ku didtu, bayran na ku nímu?
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Dì ba nà kubad?
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

"Where—where is Ludovic Adamson?" cried a hoarse voice which none there had ever heard before; and all eyes were turned in one direction; but none knew who had spoken, and all again was hush.
— from Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 1 by John Wilson

Whether one of these gods was propitious and awake, or whether all of the three, or whether it was chance that brought them through the forest unmouthed by detestable beasts, none knoweth; but certainly neither the emissaries of the god that most they feared, nor the wrath of the topical god of that ominous place, brought their doom to the three adventurers there or then.
— from The Book of Wonder by Lord Dunsany

"But Nancy Jane O, bein' so fur er start uv all de res', an' not er dreamin' 'bout no kin' er develment, she 'lowed she'd stop an' take er nap, an' so de lark he come up wid 'er, wile she wuz er set'n on er sweet-gum lim', wid 'er head un'er 'er wing.
— from Diddie, Dumps, and Tot; Or, Plantation Child-Life by Louise Clarke Pyrnelle

For a moment I stood rooted on the doorstep, bewildered, not knowing what to do; then I asked to see his mother.
— from The Pobratim: A Slav Novel by P. Jones

[leader NA]; National Democratic Party or NDP [Desire BOUTERSE]; Naya Kadam or NK [leader NA]; Party for Renewal and Democracy or BVD [Tjan GOBARDHAN]; Party of National Unity and Solidarity or KTPI [Willy SOEMITA]; Pertjaja Luhur [Paul SOMOHARDJO]; Progressive Workers' and Farm Laborers' Union or PALU [Ir Iwan KROLIS]; The New Front or NF (a coalition of four parties Suriname National Party or NPS, Progressive Reform Party or VHP, Suriname Labor Party or SPA, and Pertjaja Luhur) [Runaldo Ronald VENETIAAN]; The Progressive Development Alliance (a combination of three parties, Renewed Progressive Party or HPP, Party of the Federation of Land Workers or PVF, and Suriname Progressive People's Party or PSV)
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency