The psychologists have trained a pack of theories and facts which they keep in leash, like so many bulldogs, and which they let loose upon us whenever we depart
— from The World I Live In by Helen Keller

Now Katya is living less than half a mile off.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I know I look like a street beggar.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

And, like the impatient steed of war He snuffed the battle from afar; And hopes were none, that back again Herald should come from Terouenne, Where England’s king in leaguer lay, Before decisive battle-day; Whilst these things were, the mournful Clare Did in the dame’s devotions share: For the good countess ceaseless prayed To Heaven and saints, her sons to aid,
— from Marmion: A Tale Of Flodden Field by Walter Scott

Mihunhun (nahunhun) ang ákung mga buhuk nga kaspahun, I lost lots of hair because of dandruff.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Kining isdáa lamig lápuk, This fish tastes like mud.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

They were talking of the baby, and the word "love" had not been, and was not going to be, mentioned; but there the thing was, unmistakable to her keen intelligence, looming like a frontier custom-house on the road ahead.
— from Sisters by Ada Cambridge

You know I labored like a lackey for five years on half pay in the bank.
— from A Canadian Bankclerk by Jack Preston

The hangings of the room were of tapestry, made in pannels of different coloured velvets, thickly inlaid with flowers of silk damask; a yellow border, of about a foot in depth, finished the tapestry at top and bottom, the upper border being embroidered with Moorish sentences from the Koran in lilac letters.
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

"I know it looks like certain death to go in," he said, "and therefore I want only volunteers with me."
— from Fighting in Cuban Waters; Or, Under Schley on the Brooklyn by Edward Stratemeyer

He looked carefully at his collar, wondering how many days he would be able to keep it looking like a fresh collar, and he regretted that he had not brought his safety-razor to this new home.
— from Merton of the Movies by Harry Leon Wilson

Kakali iho la laua ehiku la, maopopo iho la na la e hanawai ai o Laukieleula.
— from The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai by S. N. Haleole