He preached easily in five languages, and none knew the East better than he did.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

One can become proficient in the use of the call with reasonable effort; but to expect to call intelligently, without a proper knowledge of the interpretation of the notes produced, is as absurd as to read a foreign language and not know the meaning of the words.
— from The Wild Turkey and Its Hunting by Charles L. Jordan

He took a bath quickly, anointed his body, put on fresh linen, a new kaftan, a helmet with plumes, and then went to Sarah.
— from The Pharaoh and the Priest: An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Bolesław Prus

The man who got the pipe promised to leave it to me when he died, but he departed from life and never kept his word.
— from Memoirs by Charles Godfrey Leland

It may have been simply the man in him crying out for Love, and not knowing yet that Love was at his elbow.
— from The Blue Lagoon: A Romance by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

But I 'old the perverse, and permiskus is Nature's fust laws, and no kid.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 7, 1892 by Various

It was easy, in the midst of such surroundings, for the children to imagine themselves back in the days of King Arthur and his court, while Miss Bond sat there telling them such beautiful tales of its fair ladies and noble knights.
— from Two Little Knights of Kentucky by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

That of the Polish patriot has already received its sacred deposit, and with the sincere oblation of a not quite stranger's heart, this poor offering is laid on the grave of him who fought for 'his country's freedom, laws, and native king;' who, when riches and a crown were proffered to himself by the then dictator of almost all Europe, declined both, because no price could buy the independence of an honest man.
— from Thaddeus of Warsaw by Jane Porter

"Every other man had been ashore and gone home for long ago, not knowing we was working outside, and only one chance were left for we.
— from Labrador Days Tales of the Sea Toilers by Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir

When all was over, and the good duchess was laid in the family vault, the duke and the young marquis disappeared from Lone and none knew whither they went.
— from The Lost Lady of Lone by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth