It is well said, quoth King Nentres; so said the King of the Hundred Knights; the same said the King Carados, and King Uriens; so did King Idres and King Brandegoris; and so did King Cradelment, and the Duke of Cambenet; the same said King Clariance and King Agwisance, and sware they would never fail other, neither for life nor for death.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Dúna siyay gihínuk pagkáun kay nagtiamtiam siya, She’s eating s.t.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

“Nay, I know not; some evidence required from us, perhaps.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

Kanúnay na siyang magmik-ap run, mikaringking na tingáli, She always makes her face up nowadays.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

But humanity does not constitute a whole: it is an indissoluble multiplicity of ascending and descending organisms—it knows no such thing as a state of youth followed by maturity and then age.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Kinsay nagsúma sa pátung sa mga sápì nga gihulaman?
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Kinsay nagpitik sa ákung dawunggan?
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Dílì ku makaagpas sa kumpas niánang sunatáha, I cannot catch onto the tempo of that song.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

According to them, there was a time in religious evolution when men knew neither souls nor spirits: a preanimistic phase.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Iúnung ku níya sa íyang mga salà, He wants to implicate me in his offenses.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

" "I know not," said Mr Cowley, "whether we ought not rather to envy you for that which makes you to envy others: and that specially in this place, where all eyes which are not closed in blindness ought to become fountains of tears.
— from Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Of the residences of the French kings none stood in a more salubrious air or commanded a fairer prospect.
— from The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

For thousands of years after men had eyes and used them, they knew no substance, at once hard and transparent, which could answer the double purpose of protection and vision.
— from Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity by Robert Patterson

I am aware that Niagara Falls is at the junction of the Hudson and the Missouri, and that the Great Lakes are in the Adirondacks, and are well stocked with shad, trout, and terrapin, but of your people I know nothing, save that they gather in large audiences and pay large sums for the pleasure of seeing how an author endures
— from Peeps at People Being Certain Papers from the Writings of Anne Warrington Witherup by John Kendrick Bangs

We can keep no servant, so we all have to help."
— from A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia by Amanda M. Douglas

We know not so well as God, what way is best and safest for us: as it is dangerous desiring to mend his word by any fancies of our own, which we suppose more fit; so it is dangerous to desire to amend his government, and providence, and order, and to think that another way than that which in nature he hath stated and appointed, is more to our benefit.
— from A Christian Directory, Part 3: Christian Ecclesiastics by Richard Baxter

But Charlemagne's contemporaries believed that the old Roman Empire had now been revived, and a German king now sat on the throne once occupied by Augustus and Constantine.
— from Early European History by Hutton Webster