Ang táwung kasámuk ray akatahan (akatahun) dì giyud muhangtud, A man that has nothing to do except look for trouble will not live long.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

There shalt thou mark with strange delight Each loveliest flower that blooms by night, While lily buds that shrink from day Their tender loveliness display.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Now, however preposterous it may at first seem to talk of any creature’s skin as being of that sort of consistence and thickness, yet in point of fact these are no arguments against such a presumption; because you cannot raise any other dense enveloping layer from the whale’s body but that same blubber; and the outermost enveloping layer of any animal, if reasonably dense, what can that be but the skin?
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

There was nothing they could do except listen for the faintest sound.
— from The Golden Boys Along the River Allagash by L. P. (Levi Parker) Wyman

The speech of the Bostonians of the twentieth century differs even less from that of their cultured ancestors of the nineteenth than did that of the latter from the language of Washington and Franklin, while the differences between the style of dress and furniture of the two epochs are not more marked than I have known fashion to make in the time of one generation.
— from Looking Backward: 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy

I see the light, and the lattice moves, And her dark eye looks for the youth she loves— Sing on—sing on!
— from The Military Sketch-Book, Vol. 2 of 2 Reminiscences of seventeen years in the service abroad and at home by William Maginn

I could see it plainly as I drove up, its arrow due east, looking for trouble as usual.
— from At Close Range by Francis Hopkinson Smith

My friend the non-commissioned officer had left me, as I declined to surrender my letters to any one but the Commandante in person, and he was at the time at Patagones, distant eighteen leagues from this Guardia.
— from At Home with the Patagonians A Year's Wanderings over Untrodden Ground from the Straits of Magellan to the Rio Negro by George C. Musters

Sir, it meets you, Like a glad pilgrim, whose desiring eye Longs for the long-wish'd altar of his vow.
— from A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 13 by Robert Dodsley

"Brer Fox en Brer Wolf, dey broke, but 'fo' dey got outer sight en outer yar'n', Brer Rabbit show hisse'f, he did, en laugh fit ter kill hisse'f.
— from Nights With Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris

How truly did Edward Lynne feel that she indeed would be a crown of glory to his old age, as well as to his manhood's prime!
— from Turns of Fortune, and Other Tales by Hall, S. C., Mrs.