Mulakuy-ung nang silyáhag lingkúran kay balig tiil, That chair will collapse if you sit on it because it has a broken leg.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

If I don't seem to need help, it is because I have a better friend, even than father, to comfort and sustain me.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

If I don't seem to need help, it is because I have a better friend, even than Father, to comfort and sustain me.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Then we went to Ischia, but I had already been to that island and tired myself to death “resting” a couple of days and studying human villainy, with the landlord of the Grande Sentinelle for a model.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

The discovery is the more interesting because it has always been a part of the christian folklore of that region that, when a storm with lightning occurs, it is ‘Elias in his chariot of fire.’
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

I believe I have always behaved in a brotherly way to you—haven't I always been ready to oblige or to help you?
— from An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen

But, now I think of it, I believe I have a bill in my pocket; O, ay, here it is-Love for Love, ay,-true, ha, ha!-how could I be so stupid!”
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

“That all comes of itself,” they thought, “and there’s nothing interesting or important about it because it has always been so, and always will be so.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

In Britain, it had always been asserted that Parliament possessed the power of binding them in all cases whatever.
— from The Life of George Washington: A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions by John Marshall

I believe I have always been happier than any of my brothers.
— from Faux's Memorable Days in America, 1819-20; and Welby's Visit to North America, 1819-20, part 2 (1820) by W. (William) Faux

On the third day we began to see some land birds, and a few hours afterwards, the loom of the island itself; but it had already begun to get fearfully cold, and our thermometer, which I consulted every two hours, plainly indicated that we were approaching ice.
— from Letters from High Latitudes Being Some Account of a Voyage in 1856 of the Schooner Yacht "Foam" to Iceland, Jan Meyen, and Spitzbergen by Dufferin and Ava, Frederick Temple Blackwood, Marquis of

This choice blessing could not be denied to Ishmael, because he had disinherited himself by sin; for this blessing was entailed to Isaac, before Ishmael had a being also (Rom 4:16-19; Gen 15:4,5, chapter 16).
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

English has certainly a richer vocabulary, a finer variety of words to express delicate distinctions of meaning, than any language that is or that ever was spoken: and this is because it has always been hospitable in the reception of new words.
— from Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris

I know it, but I have always been on my guard against it, whether from indifference or from prudence.
— from Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel by Henri Frédéric Amiel

A year ago I hunted in vain for the box and fancied that some curiosity-monger had feloniously appropriated it, but since then I believe it has again been seen there.
— from Rock-climbing in the English Lake District Third Edition by Owen Glynne Jones

The mountains immediately behind it, however, are but the connecting link between the Sierras of Grédos and Guadarrama, and all the loftier peaks lie at some distance east and west.
— from Northern Spain by Edgar Thomas Ainger Wigram

The horn consists of two parts, an outward horny case, and an inward conical substance, somewhat intermediate between indurated hair and bone.
— from On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures by Charles Babbage