It grows in Bactriana, Babylonia, Susis, and in the Lower Syria.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

Gwápa untang bayhána, ugáling manúkun lang, That girl is beautiful, but she is cross-eyed.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

It is this part alone which acts upon the public opinion outside the Army, upon the people and the Government in both belligerent States, and upon all others in any way concerned.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

“I agree, but God sent us into the world that we might run the risk” “To a man it may be a necessity and a delight, but a girl is bound by stricter laws.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

She owned that, ever since she had been a girl, she had dreaded being caught by her last leg, just as she was getting into bed, by some one concealed under it.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Every time the swimmer lifted his head above the water to breathe, the guards in both boats shot at him.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

I’d love you next to father if it wasn’t my DUTY to love Grandma Irving best, because she’s doing so much for me.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

After this, another gentleman, in bright buttons, summarily cleared the house, and locked the door, with the child on the wrong side of it; and, unheeded, hungry, shelterless, and forlorn, the lad crept silently away.
— from My Fire Opal, and Other Tales by Sarah Warner Brooks

Blasphemy! Soldiers, as is well known, are the more agreeable company the more coolly they deal out death, while there is no more sentimental character to move the feelings in the melodramatic repertory than the warrior grey in battle, but soft of heart—a wooden-legged veteran who could not hurt a fly.”
— from Lay Down Your Arms: The Autobiography of Martha von Tilling by Bertha von Suttner

But Montefiore had in his favor against all impossibilities the blood of the Maranas which gushed in the heart of that inquisitive girl, Italian by birth, Spanish in principles, virgin indeed, but impatient to love.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Now these slanders, with the other, I glory in, because but slanders, foolish, or knavish lies, and falsehoods cast upon me by the devil and his seed; and should I not be dealt with thus wickedly by the world, I should want one sign of a saint, and a child of God.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan

[155] During the earlier part of the evening an order had been passed round that all lights were to be extinguished in five minutes; but, as usual, a number of people were selfish enough to disobey orders, and incur the risk of Dervish sniping, rather than get into bed by starlight.
— from The Downfall of the Dervishes; or, The Avenging of Gordon by Ernest Nathaniel Bennett