The psychist gave him a keen look and said slowly, "Two hundred and fifty.
— from The Marching Morons by C. M. (Cyril M.) Kornbluth

Kasilyas lang ang Sibu sa Manílà, Cebu is nothing compared to Manila.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Then he knocked louder, and she started and put it away.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge, like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

subhana wa ta’ala dan nyawa lembaga Adam lalu di-hinggapkan kapada ubun-ubun lembaga Adam nyawa itu, lalu-lah hidup lembaga Adam kemdian Siti Hawa pun sudah jadi, kemdian lalu-lah kahwin lembaga Adam sama Siti Hawa, kemdian lalu hamil
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

After the little company had presented its offerings to the gods and the father had spoken aside to a big fat priest who kept looking at Shama Sahai, the mother announced that they must bathe in the sacred pool.
— from In Kali's Country: Tales from Sunny India by Emily Churchill Thompson Sheets

‘I must ask the Uncle at once if he knows Lord Andore,’ she said; ‘and he can telegraph to him like he did to India, and then everything will be all right.’
— from The Wonderful Garden; or, The Three Cs by E. (Edith) Nesbit

Kitty laughed and said she should try a little invention, if her Uncle Jack came down to inches.
— from A Chance Acquaintance by William Dean Howells

“I was trying to get the knot loose and something sharp touched my wrist.
— from The Motor Boys on the Atlantic; or, The Mystery of the Lighthouse by Clarence Young

Even so Tennyson himself, as he passed from youth to middle life, and from that to old age, was ever trying to achieve one more 'work of noble note', and yearning To follow knowledge like a sinking star
— from Victorian Worthies: Sixteen Biographies by George Henry Blore

Among the books which I have found especially useful I must mention first Professor van Millingen's Byzantine Constantinople, The Walls, etc. ; the Broken Bits of Byzantium , by Mrs Walker and the late Rev. C. G. Curtis, to whose kindness I owe very much, a book which is now very rarely to be met with, and ought certainly to be republished; Bayet, L'Art Byzantin ; Kraus, Geschichte der Christlichen Kunst ; Lethaby and Swainson, S. Sophia ; Grosvenor, Constantinople ; Paspates, The Great Palace of Constantinople .
— from Constantinople: The Story of the Old Capital of the Empire by William Holden Hutton

Katie laughed as she said it, the others joining in the merriment, for it was well known that while Dorothy cared very truly for all her friends, Nancy was the dearest.
— from Dorothy Dainty's Gay Times by Amy Brooks

"Oh, we know lots about stores," said Bunny.
— from Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Keeping Store by Laura Lee Hope

"To follow Knowledge like a sinking star Beyond the utmost bound of human thought—" these lines were frequently in his mind, and helped to shape his enthusiasm.
— from The Crown of Life by George Gissing