How did doctor know where to find baby?
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

Dúna diay kuy bag-ung sapátus , Yipee!
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

despatch, dispatch; knock off, finish off, polish off; make short work of; dispose of, set at rest; perform, discharge, fulfill, realize; put in practice, put in force; carry out, carry into effect, carry into execution; make good; be as good as one's word.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Manon Lescaut and Le Doyen de Killerine , by the Abbé Prévôt.
— from On Love by Stendhal

Midrayib sa dyíp, unyà dì diay kamau, He’s a fool.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

V Babbitt let Dr. Drew know that he was responsible for this tribute.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

I gradually cheered her up by dwelling on the many things she would do for her unfortunate father and for Peepy when she had a home of her own; and finally we went downstairs into the damp dark kitchen, where Peepy and his little brothers and sisters were grovelling on the stone floor and where we had such a game of play with them that to prevent myself from being quite torn to pieces I was obliged to fall back on my fairy-tales.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Compare that with love as seen in a modern novel— Le Doyen de Killerine , for example.
— from On Love by Stendhal

Your daughter deliberately killed a young girl named Edna Bryant.
— from The House of Whispers by William Le Queux

Up, and to the office, and thence before the office sat to the Excise Office with W. Hewer, but found some occasion to go another way to the Temple upon business, and I by Deb.'s direction did know whither in Jewen Street to direct my hackney coachman, while I staid in the coach in Aldgate Street, to go thither just to enquire whether Mrs. Hunt, her aunt, was in town, who brought me word she was not; thought this was as much as I could do at once, and therefore went away troubled through that I could do no more but to the office I must go and did, and there all the morning, but coming thither
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1669 N.S. by Samuel Pepys

Wege gedacht haben; sintemal Wir diesen Bericht erlangt, dass du dem kleinen Gevögel vor andern durch mancherlei visirliche und listige Wege und Griffe nachzustellen,
— from The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals by E. P. (Edward Payson) Evans

Hamlet, 2:2, compares God's influence to the sun which “ breeds maggots in a dead dog, Kissing carrion, ” —that is, God is no more responsible for the corruption in man's heart and the evil that comes from it, than the sun is responsible for the maggots which its heat breeds in a dead dog; 3:1— “ We are arrant knaves all. ”
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 2 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong

I described Doddridge Knapp.
— from Blindfolded by Earle Ashley Walcott

Rev. Richard Cordley , D. D., Kansas.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 34, No. 09, September, 1880 by Various

Which of these definite and contradictory assertions does Dr Knaggs support, and why?
— from The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 The Independent Health Magazine by Various

Cu. slack , a shallow dell (Dickinson), Kent, slank .
— from Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch A contribution to the study of the linguistic relations of English and Scandinavian by George T. (George Tobias) Flom