Although the principal use of a visiting card, at least the one for which it was originally invented—to be left as an evidence of one person's presence at the house of another—is going gradually out of ardent favor in fashionable circles, its usefulness seems to keep a nicely adjusted balance.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Larútun na nátù ang similya kay andam na ang basak, Let’s take the seedlings out of the seedbed now because the field is ready for planting.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Thy virtues, best of chiefs, I know, And now a boon would fain bestow.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Let us camp here for the night, by this little clearing, where these seldom trodden footpaths diverge," said Keane, some hours later, as, weary and dusty with his three hours' tramp through the bracken and the tousled undergrowth, he threw down his heavy knapsack and nets, and began to wipe the perspiration from his forehead.
— from The Phantom Airman by Rowland Walker

The men of Kebeisah are not ’Arab, Bedouin; they hold their mud-walled village and their 50,000 palm-trees against the tribes, but they know the laws of the desert as well as the nomads themselves, and carry on an uneasy commerce with them in dates and other commodities, with which even the wilderness cannot dispense, the accredited methods of the merchant alternating with those of the raider and the avenger of raids.
— from Amurath to Amurath by Gertrude Lowthian Bell

By the men on the run they were known as Nosey and Baldy, but in a former stage of their existence, in the days of the Emperor Augustus Cæsar, they were known as Naso and Balbus.
— from The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches of the Early Colonial Life of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, and Others Who Left Their Native Land and Never Returned by George Dunderdale

The President of the Board of Education of Boston in a recent address congratulated his fellow-citizens upon the fact that Boston has her system of public schools and kindergartens, and now, and but lately, her public school of manual training; but what is needed, he said, 'is a school of technical training in the trades , such as Pratt Institute and other similar institutions furnish.
— from Famous Givers and Their Gifts by Sarah Knowles Bolton

In this way they were used alike by king against noble and by clique against clique.
— from The Scottish Parliament Before the Union of the Crowns by Robert S. (Robert Sangster) Rait

THE LOSS OF UMSLOPOGAAS Now, after the smelling out of the witch-doctors, Chaka caused a watch to be kept upon his mother Unandi, and his wife Baleka, my sister, and report was brought to him by those who watched, that the two women came to my huts by stealth, and there kissed and nursed a boy—one of my children.
— from Nada the Lily by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

The hunters among the Indians had also killed a number, and before [Pg 173] long much meat and many hides were put out to dry at each camp.
— from Jack Among the Indians; Or, A Boy's Summer on the Buffalo Plains by George Bird Grinnell

He didn’t know what in all the world he should do; for he had six—no, [96] seven hungry little kangarooses, and not a bit to give them for dinner.
— from The Stories Polly Pepper Told to the Five Little Peppers in the Little Brown House by Margaret Sidney

The King desired my brother not to take anything ill that had been done, as the motive for it was his concern for the good of his kingdom, and not any bad intention towards himself.
— from Memoirs and Historical Chronicles of the Courts of Europe Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of France, Wife of Henri IV; of Madame de Pompadour of the Court of Louis XV; and of Catherine de Medici, Queen of France, Wife of Henri II by Mme. Du Hausset

I seldom missed my aim; and I felt that I could keep a number at bay, if I posted myself at the angle of the rock, where I could command a pathway, up which not more than one person at a time could proceed.
— from Mark Seaworth by William Henry Giles Kingston