Inscriptions, such as those quoted by Mr. V. Venkayya, 8 bear testimony to the energy displayed by former rulers in Southern India in having tanks, wells, and irrigation channels constructed.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

nakataguntun na ku, I’ve given for half the value of this pig for raising it, so it is all mine now.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

I do know that you can keep a secretary-bird away from snakes till it grows old, but the first reptile it sees it immediately starts out to beat him up.
— from The White Waterfall by James Francis Dwyer

The first recorded incident, showing imperfection, is soon after the descent from Hermon.
— from A Life of St. John for the Young by George Ludington Weed

Italy, the most formidable rival, is superior in its Roman remains, but inferior in its Gothic work.
— from France by Gordon Home

The French rule in Spain, in Italy, and in Holland, so far from conciliating the good-will and affection of the people, has sown the seeds of that hatred to France in each of these countries that a century will not eradicate; while no greater evidence of Napoleon’s ignorance of national character need be adduced than in the expectations he indulged in the event of his landing an army in England.
— from Arthur O'Leary: His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands by Charles James Lever

He was fired upon by the guards, and General Harmar instantly sent a number of his fleetest runners, including several Indians, in pursuit.
— from The Life and Times of Col. Daniel Boone, Hunter, Soldier, and Pioneer With Sketches of Simon Kenton, Lewis Wetzel, and Other Leaders in the Settlement of the West by Edward Sylvester Ellis

[318] Nature thus puts forth an infinite mirror of itself and a fitting reflection; its substance is infinite and its force eternal, there is an explicit immeasurable, as God is implicitly in the whole and everywhere wholly.
— from Giordano Bruno by J. Lewis (James Lewis) McIntyre

On my faint response, "I suppose it is!"
— from George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 (of 3) by George Eliot

Although men do not use the falsetto register in speaking, it is not yet proved to be impossible for the male voice to attain the same results as the female.
— from The Voice in Singing by Emma Seiler