Dakù giyung hikáya kay nag-antutu ang kusína, It must be a big feast because their kitchen has been belching forth smoke.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
Ang kakúgi kinahanglang nuntan ug kaálam, Industry must be accompanied by wisdom.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
He had a two-edged dagger, dipped in poison, to the end that, if the wound inflicted by the weapon did not avail to kill the king, it might be aided by the deadly venom.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint
I jest; for, of course, I KNOW it must be a book I have never read, and which this makes me keen to read -
— from The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1 by Robert Louis Stevenson
Yes, he knew it must be a bitter, sad Christmas for them all at home--for the many who had already got their fatal news, and for the more who awaited theirs in fear and trembling.
— from The Coil of Carne by John Oxenham
But when Peter heard her voice, which was very coarse and loud, he knew it must be a Baba Yaga calling him, so he said: “Little boat, little boat, float a little farther.
— from Wonder Tales from Many Lands by Katharine Pyle
E. B. Kennedy, `Four Years in Queensland,' p. 46: "Sandy-blight occurs generally in sandy districts in the North Kennedy; it may be avoided by ordinary care, and washing the eyes after a hot ride through sandy country.
— 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
Then I knew it must be a bull moose; and the next thing I found myself taking his picture.”
— from The Outdoor Chums in the Big Woods; Or, Rival Hunters of Lumber Run by Quincy Allen
I mean that I feel no doubt that the great majority of the Mormon men are drawn to and kept in Mormonism by a belief in its truth and vital force as a religion.
— from Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy
He saw my agitation, and realized something of what I felt, for putting out his hand and grasping mine he said, kindly: "It must be a blow . . .
— from A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari And Other Tales of South-West Africa by Frederick Carruthers Cornell
I wish you would drop in and see us—we are all in the family way here; but my two youngest daughters play very pretty—one they say has as much execution as Muscles on [81] the piano-forte, or Key-sweater on the fiddle; they play the late Mr. Weaver's overture to Obrien uncommon well as a do-it; the Roundo is very difficult they tell me—indeed I know it must be a beautiful piece of music, because they have printed FINE in large letters at the end of it.
— from The Choice Humorous Works, Ludicrous Adventures, Bons Mots, Puns, and Hoaxes of Theodore Hook by Theodore Edward Hook
And as the external surface of every specimen is keeled, and as the palatal surface of the upper jaw of every known Greensand Pterodactyle is keeled, and as the concavities slightly converge to the keel, it might be a bone from the under side of the head,—the vomer.
— from The Ornithosauria An elementary study of the bones of Pterodactyles made from fossil remains found in the Cambridge Upper Greensand, and arranged in the Woodwardian Museum of the University of Cambridge by H. G. (Harry Govier) Seeley
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