Daghan uyámut silag kwarta, They had a rather goodly amount of money.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

"My dear Uncle," said K., "it won't do any good to get excited, it's no good for you to do it and it'd be no good for me to do it.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

Even then she refused to depart, until she knew what her son’s plans were for the future.
— from After Dark by Wilkie Collins

Finally, after stumbling down unexpected steps, knocking their heads against heavy beams, and sneezing with dust, they found a small aperture, half choked by rubbish, through which they crawled into a shed, and so out into a meadow.
— from The Cricket's Friends: Tales Told by the Cricket, Teapot, and Saucepan by Virginia W. (Virginia Wales) Johnson

Does Uncle Silas know he is here?'
— from Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

She had calculated with mathematical precision the exact position of each of the Doctor's desk utensils, she knew the divinity that hedged about a manuscript, and the inviolable nature of bookmarks.
— from A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice

Accordingly, the next morning I took up my pen, to endeavour to draw up some kind of a history, which might satisfy my companions in confinement.
— from The Life and Perambulations of a Mouse by Dorothy Kilner

"Consider that Flora may be wholly dependent upon such kindness as you may be able to bestow upon her."
— from Varney the Vampire; Or, the Feast of Blood by Thomas Preskett Prest