There was a keen sense of home-coming in my mind, and when presently a tall, fair girl appeared in the pathway and came to meet me, smiling, and said 'Well?' to me, and lifted me, and kissed me, and put me down, and led me by the hand, there was no amazement, but only an impression of delightful rightness, of being reminded of happy things that had in some strange way been overlooked.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

‘Stein was the man who knew more about Patusan than anybody else.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

Naghantánà na ang duha apan wà mahinayun ug sumbagay kay miabut ang pulis, The two were about to exchange blows when the policeman arrived.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

These cots (Evander’s kingdom, mean and poor) The Trojan saw, and turn’d his ships to shore.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

Kusug mupátid ang plíyir sa sákir, A soccer player kicks hard.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

I should have thought you knew more about people's characters.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

“Love has been keeping me a prisoner,” said he, “I have got some money for you.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

It was always a hardship, when the king made a progress, for the few dwellers in small places to fill his many stomachs with food.
— from On the Makaloa Mat/Island Tales by Jack London

kill me, and put me out of pain."
— from The Martyr of the Catacombs A Tale of Ancient Rome by James De Mille

The older boys can adjust and tend the knitting machines and pack and deliver the finished product.
— from Our Schools in War Time—and After by Arthur D. (Arthur Davis) Dean

Yet I know many a pain is much sharper than toothache, albeit I never suffered any sharper.
— from King Alfred's Old English Version of St. Augustine's Soliloquies Turned into Modern English by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

He then produced several bladders full of carburetted hydrogen, which he had collected from the blowers in the Killingworth mine, and proved the safety of his lamp by numerous experiments with the gas, repeated in various ways; his earnest and impressive manner exciting in the minds of his auditors the liveliest interest both in the inventor and his invention.
— from Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson by Samuel Smiles

“Dearest, kindest mother!” apostrophised Philip aloud, as he rose from his leaning position, “here thou wert, tired with watching over my infant slumbers, thinking of my absent father and his dangers, working up thy mind and anticipating evil, till thy fevered sleep conjured up this apparition.
— from The Phantom Ship by Frederick Marryat

" "The baron has already had the audacity to inform me that you would keep me a prisoner until I should marry him," said Hedwig; and her voice trembled as she remembered how Benoni had told her so.
— from A Roman Singer by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

"I heard their vile, wicked plot, and Fin kept me a prisoner in his tent lest I should warn you.
— from Katerfelto: A Story of Exmoor by G. J. (George John) Whyte-Melville

Dì ku makatiad kay musakit ang piang sa bukubuku, I cannot bend backwards because it will hurt the sprain in my back.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff