Ayawg tan-áwa ang libru sa íyang tabun, Don’t judge a book by its cover.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

But, as I was telling you, it sure was a man's job to fight through that stuff yard by yard, and the salt water was just about level with my lips, so that when I wanted a breath I had to give a little jump and breathe before I came down.
— from The Boy With the U. S. Survey by Francis Rolt-Wheeler

“Life would be far easier, wouldn’t it, if we could judge a book by its covers?
— from McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 4, August 1908 by Various

Closely ringed by ridge and peak—distant Sperry Glacier and pointed Gunsight peering up from the southern jumble, and broad Bearhat impossibly close—this lovely lake is almost lost amid such sharp proclamations of rock.
— from Many-Storied Mountains: The Life of Glacier National Park by Greg Beaumont

The army might not be ready to join a Bonaparte, but it could not be relied upon to guard the scaffold on which he should be sent to die.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 44, June, 1861 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Presently Beady Jones and Braverman bustled in, carrying the packs.
— from The Border Legion by Zane Grey