His cherished wish that would have made Dear Ráma king, so long delayed, “Too late!
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Ukyab kaáyu nang mga tawhána kay dalì ra kaáyung patuúhun, Those people are easily stirred up because it’s easy to lead them to believe.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Swift from above descends the royal fair (Her beauteous cheeks the blush of Venus wear, Chasten'd with coy Diana's pensive air); Hangs o'er her son, in his embraces dies; Rains kisses on his neck, his face, his eyes: Few words she spoke, though much she had to say; And scarce those few, for tears, could force their way.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

Bobbie went on; “I do really know one or two French words if I could only think of them.”
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

It is a lovely spot, between Aberdeen and Peterhead, just under the rock-bound headland whence the long, dangerous reefs known as The Spurs run out into the North Sea.
— from Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

He is self-educated, and does really know a multitude of things, but they are not so.
— from Eve's Diary, Complete by Mark Twain

Diyútay ray kan-a sa hilaw nga mangga arun dílì ka sirulun, Don’t eat so many green mangoes so you don’t get cramps.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Friedrich Vollmer: Studien zu dem römischen Kochbuche von Apicius.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

He had fled from deserved retribution, knowing there was one man who held the damnatory secret.
— from Menotah: A Tale of the Riel Rebellion by John Trevena

So we worked all the rest of the month, making about twenty dollars a day, on the solitary bank of the river, listening soberly to the eternal bass of its waters, and the sharp, sudden crash of some distant rocker keeping faithful time to the beating of its master's heart.
— from Golden Dreams and Leaden Realities by George Payson

IV (1878), Books XIX, XX, a standard work; Karl Ritter, Kaiser Joseph II und seine kirchlichen Reformen ; G. Holzknecht, Ursprung und Herkunft der reformideen Kaiser Josefs II auf kirchlichem
— from A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. by Carlton J. H. (Carlton Joseph Huntley) Hayes

Where did Richards keep it?
— from The Burglars' Club: A Romance in Twelve Chronicles by Henry Augustus Hering

James Elphinston, long known to the public by his unsuccessful attempt to introduce a new and uniform mode of spelling into the English language, translated, in 1794, “The Sentencious Poets—Publius dhe Syrrian—Laberius dhe Roman Knight, &c. arrainged and translated into correspondent Inglish Mezzure 627 .”
— from History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Vol. II by John Colin Dunlop

Milbourne, William Dampier, Robert Knowlman, Robert Frye, John Bridge, William Stratton, John Ballett, Cha.
— from A Cruising Voyage Around the World by Woodes Rogers

Colonate: Pelham, Essays , xiii, The Imperial Domains and the Colonate ; Rostowsew, Studien zur Geschichte des römischen Kolonats ; art.
— from A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur E. R. (Arthur Edward Romilly) Boak

Having passed through the ruined districts of Mangalia, the 1st Division reached Kostendji on the 28th of July.
— from The British Expedition to the Crimea by Russell, William Howard, Sir