*bà (from sábà ) — dihà it is not true, despite what you say.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The story of the first issue of 1601 is one of finesse, state diplomacy, and surreptitious printing.
— from 1601: Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors by Mark Twain

The number 5040, which is the number of the citizens in the Laws, is expressly based by him on utilitarian grounds, namely, the convenience of the number for division; it is also made up of the first seven digits multiplied by one another.
— from The Republic by Plato

We had touched at many ports and made much profit, when one day upon the open sea we were caught by a terrible wind which blew us completely out of our reckoning, and lasting for several days finally drove us into harbour on a strange island.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

[103] "Dr. Allen Thomson hatched out some chickens on a carpet, where he kept them for several days.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Plans discussed.—Pleasures of “camping-out,” on fine nights.—Ditto, wet nights.—Compromise decided on.—Montmorency, first impressions of.—Fears lest he is too good for this world, fears subsequently dismissed as groundless.—Meeting adjourns.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

We complied, and she wrote; but in the midst of the "General War-" she struck fast, sighed deeply, and said, "I am only a woman!"
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

"Now, let me see, there's my new gray walking suit, just curl up the feather in my hat, Beth, then my poplin for Sunday and the small party, it looks heavy for spring, doesn't it?
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Faith, some do and some do not.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The sight of the field of action set Jim's sinews twitching; he longed for the strife, and found some difficulty in restraining himself from running with the preceding party pell-mell on to the creek.
— from In the Roaring Fifties by Edward Dyson

Think of staying in this place for several days, without any blankets or even a coat!”
— from The Mystery at Camp Lenape by Carl Saxon

Towards September, we received the joyful intelligence that the Thibetian embassy had arrived at Tang-Keou-Eul, where it was to remain for several days, in order to lay in a stock of provisions, and arrange its order of march.
— from Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 2 by Evariste Régis Huc

This offered so favourable an opportunity for destroying the rats and cockroaches with which she was completely overrun, a measure that, from the experience of our last voyage, was considered absolutely necessary for our comfort as well as for our personal safety, that, as soon as the operation of coppering and caulking was finished, she was secured alongside of the hulk, and there immersed in the water for several days, by which process we hoped effectually to destroy them.
— from Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 by Philip Parker King

I was in no great mood for such doings, but my mother must ever have her way.
— from Ben o' Bill's, the Luddite: A Yorkshire Tale by D. F. E. Sykes

But that she could love (as Elizabeth rightly felt she did) and yet not find predominant over everything else the longing for his happiness was the thing that was utterly inconceivable.
— from Arundel by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson