Gipaubayúnan níya ang tanang hangyù sa asáwa
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

those birds Seam to be common to every part of this Country in greater or smaller numbers, and the Hawks, Crows, and ravins build their nests in great numbers along the high & inaxcessable clifts of the Columbia, and Lewis's rivers when we passd along them.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Moreover, he hoped that the affair would not get noised abroad, that his name would hardly be pronounced in it, and that in any case it would not go beyond the courts of the Tournelle.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude: the aims of friendship, religion, science, and art.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

All we know is, that the marriage really was arranged, and that the prince had commissioned Lebedeff and Keller to look after all the necessary business connected with it; that he had requested them to spare no expense; that Nastasia herself was hurrying on the wedding; that Keller was to be the prince’s best man, at his own earnest request; and that Burdovsky was to give Nastasia away, to his great delight.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

As for the acquaintance which is to be sought in travel, that which is most of all profitable, is acquaintance with the secretaries and employed men 207 of ambassadors, for so in travelling in one country he shall suck the experience of many; let him also see and visit eminent persons in all kinds which are of great name abroad, that he may be 135 able to tell how the life agreeth with the fame.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

The streams were full, of course, and still made a great noise among the hills; but I observed that Alan thought no more upon the Kelpie, and was in high good spirits.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

But now she got no answer to her little caresses, either from her father or from Tom,–the two idols of her life.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

The bundle needed much expurgation and was full of Greek nonsense, at the head of the chapters, which has all been cut out.
— from Indian Tales by Rudyard Kipling

He called to her and got no answer, then he looked in.
— from The heritage of unrest by Gwendolen Overton

The girl nodded, and, turning her chariot, darted back the way they came.
— from The Empire Makers: A Romance of Adventure and War in South Africa by Hume Nesbit

When he appeared I bade him a cheerful good night and told him to put out the lights.
— from It Pays to Smile by Nina Wilcox Putnam

They were all received by the Romans, because Titus himself grew negligent as to his former orders for killing them, and because the very soldiers grew weary of killing them, and because they hoped to get some money by sparing them; for they left only the populace, and sold the rest of the multitude, 28 with their wives and children, and every one of them at a very low price, and that because such as were sold were very many, and the buyers were few: and although Titus had made proclamation beforehand, that no deserter should come alone by himself, that so they might bring out their families with them, yet did he receive such as these also.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

With what readiness they listened to wise counsel, and the hopes of the Pope that they would give no advantage to his enemies, at a time when they were so fevered by the knowledge that conspiracy was at work in their midst!
— from At Home And Abroad; Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Margaret Fuller

The heat was excessive, the insects, especially mosquitoes, exceedingly troublesome, and the sound of the waves, as they beat against the rocks and chafed the beach in the gusty night, and the howling of the wind, which for a time moaned through the deserted chambers of the convent, all made us restless.
— from Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Samuel Finley Breese Morse

As the king would give no assurance that his friends who had aided him should be pardoned, the crown prince evaded all attempts to extort from him confessions which would implicate them.
— from The Boys' Book of Famous Rulers by Lydia Hoyt Farmer

Andre had wished to be permitted to go out and procure a vehicle, but this the young girl negatived, and took her leave, saying.
— from Caught in the Net by Emile Gaboriau