Milabhag sa ákung panumdúman ang íyang mga háit nga púlung, Her sharp words etched themselves deeply in my memory.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Some fix up the masts and rigging of the canoes, doing it much more thoroughly and carefully than it was done on the previous morning, since there may be a whole day’s sailing ahead of them perhaps with a strong wind, and under dangerous conditions.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

"Now where the devil is my man gone to!"
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

They rest beneath the sod, the tree their monument;—the hallowed spot is distinct in my memory, paled in by craggy Jura, and the far, immeasurable Alps; the spire of the church they frequented still points from out the embosoming trees; and though her hand be cold, still methinks the sounds of divine music which they loved wander about, solacing their gentle ghosts.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The wind was in their faces down the station road, blowing the dust into Mrs. Munt’s eyes.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

You will know, from this description, I must mean Captain Tilney, who, as you may remember, was amazingly disposed to follow and tease me, before you went away.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Thy words, I grant, are bigger, for I wear not My dagger in my mouth.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Sen. Thebold told reporters grimly: "There is no doubt in my mind that mysterious forces are at work when a town of 3,000 population can rise in a body off the face of the Earth.
— from And Then the Town Took Off by Richard Wilson

One day I made my proposal.
— from Olla Podrida by Frederick Marryat

Then, after a little silence, the bright look returned to her face as she added: "I am very glad that I am not to be tried in that furnace; and do you know, Ester, I never believed in making myself a martyr to what might have been, or even what may be in the future; 'sufficient unto the day' is my motto.
— from Ester Ried by Pansy

They were also divided into married men and a widower, Mr. Van Buren being the widower.
— from Andrew Jackson by William Garrott Brown

How could I see as clearly as I ever saw in the daytime in my most alert moment, hear every step and garment rustle, scent the perfume of hair, and feel warm breath strike my face?
— from The Harvester by Gene Stratton-Porter

I told him that I was willing to do so whenever I could, without leaving a doubt in my mind as to his preparedness for the rite.
— from Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

At daylight I mounted my shivering horse, and with a well soaked saddle under me, and as stiff as a poker from the wet and cold, rode over to Colonel Napier for orders.
— from Campaigning in Kaffirland; Or, Scenes and Adventures in the Kaffir War of 1851-52 by William Ross King

Along to the corner of Kensington Road I strolled slowly, debating in my mind the best course to pursue.
— from In White Raiment by William Le Queux