Barátu kaáyu ang palalítun ug sirbisyu sa Hungkung, Goods and services are very cheap in H. K. v 1 [B; a2] become, be cheap.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Nakinaíya na nákù karun ang pagmata ug sayu sa buntag, I have gotten into the habit of getting up early in the morning.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

These really learned many things they needed to know, and perhaps unlearned some that they needed as much to forget.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

“Would you, men of Venice, kill a poor, unarmed stranger who has travelled to visit you from the farthest East and seen much sorrow on his way?”
— from Red Eve by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

How I wondered what she would do in Heaven without that snuff-box, for she was a "church member," and my notions of Heaven could by no stretch of liberality admit such a nuisance; and how I inwardly vowed that if I ever grew to be a woman, and if I ever was married, and if I ever had a little girl, all of which were dead certainties in my childish future, I would never make her kiss a person unless she chose to do it, never—never—which article of my pinafore creed I do here publicly indorse with my matronly hand.
— from Folly as It Flies; Hit at by Fanny Fern by Fanny Fern

Rather, the women showed us kindness and passed us sweetmeats and strange food through the fence until an officer came and stopped them with overbearing words.
— from Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders by Talbot Mundy

We had covered the table with a woollen cloth which fell over our knees, and protected us slightly from the cold.
— from Metapsychical Phenomena: Methods and Observations by J. (Joseph) Maxwell

The king also put upon Sulamith's neck carcanets of great price, of pearls that had been dived for in the Persian Sea by his subjects; and the pearls put on a living lustre and a soft colour from the warmth of her body.
— from Sulamith: A Romance of Antiquity by A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich) Kuprin