*dyiniral — admisyun, — manidyir, — Makartur [ 245 ] general admission, manager, MacArthur, et al. dyíns n thick long trousers for women.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

A hasty suspicion seemed to strike Uriah; and, with a glance at Mr. Micawber, he went to it, and threw the doors clanking open.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

There's a young American gentleman, a Mr Malone, who is driving Mr Robinson down in his new American steam car.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

I will come to Memphis again to see Mr. Farris and Mrs. Graves and Mr. Mayo and Mr. Graves.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

“My guests are Madame Morin, her husband, and her niece.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

"No, senor, that's not true," said Sancho, "for I am more cleanly than greedy, and my master Don Quixote here knows well that we two are used to live for a week on a handful of acorns or nuts.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

I let my shirt down to my waist, and drew up the bottom; fastening it like a girdle about my middle, to hide my nakedness.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

"A man or a genius?" "A man, madam," I replied; "I have nothing to do with genii.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

I was still looking at them, and also at intervals examining the teachers—none of whom precisely pleased me; for the stout one was a little coarse, the dark one not a little fierce, the foreigner harsh and grotesque, and Miss Miller, poor thing! looked purple, weather-beaten, and over-worked—when, as my eye wandered from face to face, the whole school rose simultaneously, as if moved by a common spring.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

24 Then, too, loftiness and greatness of spirit, and courtesy, justice, and generosity are much more in harmony with nature than are selfish pleasure, riches, and life itself; but it requires a great and lofty spirit to despise these latter and count them as naught, when one weighs them over against the common weal.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

They won't excuse me, and I give all my money to mother.
— from Tales of the Chesapeake by George Alfred Townsend

Between the fore-part of the lanthorn, and the perspective glass, you have a trough, made on purpose, in which you are to run a long, flat thin frame with different figures, painted with transparent colours upon glass; then all these little figures passing successively before the perspective glass, thro’ which passes the light of the lamp, will be painted, and represented with the same colours upon the wall of a darkroom, in a gigantic and monstrous manner.
— from Hocus Pocus; or The Whole Art of Legerdemain, in Perfection. By which the meanest capacity may perform the whole without the help of a teacher. Together with the Use of all the Instruments belonging thereto. by Henry Dean

" "Ah," he said, "methinks if you answer in so true and grave a manner my rude catechizing.
— from Constance Sherwood: An Autobiography of the Sixteenth Century by Georgiana Fullerton

She must not say anything to put it into Jesse's scatter-brained head that he was a genius, and might make his fortune by wood-carving.
— from The Oriel Window by Mrs. Molesworth

This greatly astonished my mother, for she had always believed the strawberries in her garden the best in the world.
— from A Twofold Life by Wilhelmine von Hillern

The splendid oak that had shaded their stile had grown broader of girth and more majestic in the spread of its head-growth since he had stood here before, and in the flower beds, in which Glory had delighted, a few forlorn survivors, sprung up as volunteers from neglected roots, struggled through a choke of dusty weeds.
— from The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Hugh Lundsford

With a look of contempt, and impertinent pride, "Begone, you vile reptile," his antship replied; "Go—go, and lament your contemptible state, But first—look at me—see my limbs how complete; I guide all my motions with freedom and ease, Run backward and forward, and turn when I please; Of nature (grown weary) you shocking essay!
— from Macmillan's Reading Books. Book V by Anonymous

She then drew forth the packet which contained (be it spoken in confidence) every syllable ever addressed to her by the laughter-loving Viscount; and greatly as Mr. Magnus Morrison began to feel interested in the case, and much as he would have liked to bring so charming a client into court, he very soon perceived that there was nothing in these highly-scented, but diminutive feuilles volantes , at all likely to produce any effect on a jury approaching to that elicited by the evidence of the learned and celebrated Sergeant Buzfuz on an occasion somewhat similar.
— from The Widow Barnaby. Vol. 3 (of 3) by Frances Milton Trollope

He could walk a reeling deck or climb a slack shroud as well, to all appearances, when he had taken a gallon as most men when they were sober.
— from The Black Buccaneer by Stephen W. (Stephen Warren) Meader