Thus the keener minds, still pressing forward to a deeper solution of the mysteries of the universe, come to reject the religious theory of nature as inadequate, and to revert in a measure to the older standpoint of magic by postulating explicitly, what in magic had only been implicitly assumed, to wit, an inflexible regularity in the order of natural events, which, if carefully observed, enables us to foresee their course with certainty and to act accordingly.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Ug gustu kang muabut sa pyista, ubligádu kang mularga run, If you want to make it to the feast you must leave today.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Coueren , v. to cover, MD, C2; keueren , MD, S3, P, W; kuueren , MD; kyueren , MD, W.—AF.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Dì ku makaabanti sa pagdáru kay dautun ku
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

. Kinsay muandam sa pagkáun?
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Dílì ku mungusngus ng adyaks sa awtu kay makadáut sa pintal, I will not rub Ajax on my car because it destroys the finish.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Mahadluk kung mukawkaw sa pundu, I’m afraid to touch the fund.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

"Kiss me, Anton, kiss me," she pleaded.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Muskítun kug maáyu si Pidru.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Ngánung muuknul ka man sa pagsulud?
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

She kissed me, seemed pleased to see me, and we sat on two straw chairs, under the awning on the deck, talking about all sorts of things.
— from Letters of a Diplomat's Wife, 1883-1900 by Mary King Waddington

He spake, and turned to Hermes, his dear son: "Hermes, for thou, in this, my messenger Art, as in all things, to the bright-haired nymph Make known my steadfast purpose, the return Of suffering Ulysses.
— from Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by William Cullen Bryant

Will Thou protect me and those I love, and keep my soul pure?
— from Ruth's Marriage in Mars: A Scientific Novel by Glass, Charles Wilder, Mrs.

"So ho!" said Kenric, "methinks, Sir Piers, that this little dog might now have a chain about his pretty neck.
— from The Thirsty Sword: A Story of the Norse Invasion of Scotland (1262-1263) by Robert Leighton