Makuntrabandu giyud ang butang nga dílì ipaági sa kustum, Smuggled goods that don’t pass the Customs can be called contraband.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

“I doubt it,” said Kolya, somewhat taken aback.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Come down in procession, come down in succession, King Solomon’s self is come to call you.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

“It is really the duty of myself and comrade here to do it,” said Kent, shifting uneasily in his chair, to find a comfortable place to sit upon; “but as we have been for two days riding the hardest-backed horses over roads that were simply awful, and as previous to that time we had not taken any equestrian exercise for several years, there are some fundamental reasons—that is, reasons lying at the very base of things, (he shifted again)—why we should not be called upon to do another mile of horseback riding until Time has had an opportunity to exercise his soothing and healing influence, so to speak.
— from The Red Acorn by John McElroy

"So do I," said Katy, soberly.
— from What Katy Did Next by Susan Coolidge

Miss Lavinia was keenly observant, and from two years' daily intercourse, she knew Sylvia's nature thoroughly.
— from People of the Whirlpool From The Experience Book of a Commuter's Wife by Mabel Osgood Wright

Death is so kind, so benignant, to whom he loves; but he goes by us others and will not look our way.
— from Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900) by Mark Twain

It is that some day I shall kill some one.
— from A Woman's Burden: A Novel by Fergus Hume