he wheezed triumphantly, and, getting up, lifted a big grasshopper to Yegorushka’s eyes.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Ákung gibanggúsan ug lugud ang buling sa íyang likud, I scrubbed the dirt off his back with a stone.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Not a ‘ M. Friport, qui sçait donner, mais qui ne sçait pas vivre ,’ but a well-bred, well-informed gentleman, upright, liberal, and benevolent, without singularity or oddities of any sort.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 07 Patronage [part 1] by Maria Edgeworth

'The one who got urgent letters at breakfast and fled by the 10.20.
— from A London Life, and Other Tales by Henry James

The old graduates knew perfectly well that the punches had been given up long ago; but I don't think they liked to admit it even to themselves—although they do groan a good deal about college days not being what they used to be.
— from The Diary of a Freshman by Charles Macomb Flandrau

One day, while walking along the sea-coast, Edward shot a Bridled Guillemot ( Uria lachrymans ),—a bird not before known to frequent the district.
— from Life of a Scotch Naturalist: Thomas Edward, Associate of the Linnean Society. Fourth Edition by Samuel Smiles

So one night, when she could not stand it any longer and she heard that he slept, she got up, lit a bit of a candle, and let the light shine on him.
— from East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen

Mr. Free was, at the time I mention, gathered up like a ball opposite a small, low window that looked upon the bluff headlands now fast becoming dim and misty as the night approached.
— from Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 by Charles James Lever

I had heard of the little Athabasca girl, found in the forest by Skenandoa and Spencer, and how she grew up like a boy at Askalege, with the brave half-breed interpreter, Thomas Spencer; and how it was her delight to roam the forests and talk—they said—to trees and beasts by moonlight; how she knew the language of all things living, and could hear the tiny voices of the growing grass!
— from The Little Red Foot by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

"Comrades," said Gwynn, "God has given us liberty, and by our courage we must prove ourselves worthy of the boon."
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) by John Lothrop Motley

When he went to the post he was so full of air that if Merritt hadn't been settin' on him he'd have gone up like a balloon.
— from Old Man Curry: Race Track Stories by Charles E. (Charles Emmett) Van Loan