Ang tagpud nga kamúti kun lútù, uga ug unud nga húmuk mapulpug, A powdery sweet potato is dry when it is cooked and has meat that crumbles readily.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

‘Oh!’ cried Kate, looking upwards and clasping her hands; ‘is not this, is not this, too cruel, too hard to bear!
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Arunsáhun (iarunsa, arunsáhan) nátù ang adlaw sa kasal, Let us advance the date of the marriage.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The King looked up a part that had given him special difficulty, and this the stranger explained character by character, giving the meaning with convincing clearness.
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

‘Tis no wonder if our natural and earthly parts cannot conceive that supernatural and heavenly knowledge: let us bring nothing of our own, but obedience and subjection; for, as it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Then Robin turned to the two stout knaves lying upon the ground.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

Musipyat ka lang ug kas-a, papahawáun ta giyud ka, Just commit one mistake, and I’ll fire you.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

He was rather taken aback by the sudden firmness with which Kate looked up and answered him.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

"Now, Aunt Kitty, let us go back to the house:"—seeing I hesitated, Florence added, "you need not be afraid that I will make any noise; I will be very still.
— from Aunt Kitty's Tales by Maria J. (Maria Jane) McIntosh

The friends of Herriges have asserted that the matter of his brother’s being kept locked up in the little room was made public by the Gibsons for malicious purposes or to obtain money from him; because the neighbors all around knew for at least seventeen years past that this insane man had been kept in the house and that none of them had ever complained about it.
— from The Herriges Horror in Philadelphia A Full History of the Whole Affair. A Man Kept in a Dark Cage Like a Wild Beast for Twenty Years, As Alleged, in His Own Mother's and Brother's House by Anonymous

"Why?" asked Lady Kynaston, looking up at him sharply.
— from Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance by Cameron, H. Lovett, Mrs.

he wanted to know, looking up with some astonishment.
— from The Quirt by B. M. Bower

“ He lay the kid lookin’ up and put his finger into her mouth ” 21 I looked at Simpson.
— from Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher by Eleanor Gates

The kid looks up 135 at him and sees right through the game.
— from Dorothy Dale in the West by Margaret Penrose

Mrs. Gascoigne was no longer there, and when he came to sit down again, Anna, seeing a return of speech in her brother’s eyes, could not resist the impulse to bring a little stool and seat herself against his knee, looking up at him with an expression which seemed to say, “Do speak to me.”
— from Daniel Deronda by George Eliot