The Good Authority resulted from his friendship with Ben-Zayb, when the latter, in his two noisiest controversies, which he carried on for weeks and months in the columns of the newspapers about whether it was proper to wear a high hat, a derby, or a salakot, and whether the plural of carácter should be carácteres or caractéres, in order to strengthen his argument always came out with, “We have this on good authority,” “We learn this from good authority,” later letting it be known, for in Manila everything becomes known, that this Good Authority was no other than Don Custodio de Salazar
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

Mubutu ang mga lugas sa buhuk basta sapírun nga basà, Hair gets a light look if you braid it when it is wet.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

61 It was his intention, that the arts of rhetoric and grammar should be taught in the Greek and Latin languages, in the metropolis of every province; and as the size and dignity of the school was usually proportioned to the importance of the city, the academies of Rome and Constantinople claimed a just and singular preeminence.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

It was his intention, that the arts of rhetoric and grammar should be taught in the Greek and Latin languages, in the metropolis of every province; and as the size and dignity of the school was usually proportioned to the importance of the city, the academies of Rome and Constantinople claimed a just and singular preeminence.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Our horse had got a little lame in going to Tremont, and Dr. Merryman invited me to take a seat in his buggy.
— from The Life of Abraham Lincoln, from His Birth to His Inauguration as President by Ward Hill Lamon

I rallied her a little too freely, as it was before Lord G—— and Lord L——. I never was better rebuked than by her; for she took out her pencil, and on the cover of a letter wrote these lines from Shakespeare, and slid them into my hand:
— from The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) by Samuel Richardson

Look out now, youngster, you’re going to get a little lesson in how to behave to your betters.”
— from The Rival Pitchers: A Story of College Baseball by Lester Chadwick

It has been objected to his history, that he speaks with freedom of Cicero's conduct on many occasions, but we think that he has not exceeded the bounds of just criticism when considering the course of the Roman orator; and in his third volume, when summing up his character, he employs the most generous and lofty language in speaking of him.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

The only time the feeder may be given a laugh line, is when the laugh is what is called a "flash-back."
— from Writing for Vaudeville by Brett Page

"Now we're all right, sir," said the girl, cheerily, taking his arm and by her very touch seeming to galvanize a little life into his scarecrow figure.
— from Janice Day by Helen Beecher Long

Whereupon Geoffrey, who is super-naturally grave, asks Lady Lilias if she will walk with him as far as the grotto.
— from Mrs. Geoffrey by Duchess

Paul saw now that he held a vicious black whip in his right hand, while gripping a lighted lantern in the other.
— from The Banner Boy Scouts; or, The Struggle for Leadership by George A. Warren