‘I know, Alice, it is wrong to keep repining as I do, but I cannot help it: you must bear with me.’
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

Duha ka ráwun ang ithandrid, The 800-meter run is two rounds of the track.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

" Mr. Richards, who had known Robert Audley in jackets and turn-down collars, departed to execute his commission.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

To establish that, we should have to go back and ask him if he valued anything—life, parents, country, knowledge, reputation; and if he said no, and was sincere, our mouths would be effectually stopped—that is, unless we took to declamation.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Teacher sends her kind remembrances, and I send you with my picture my dear love.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

The grave was discovered about twenty years ago by workmen employed by the Mĕntri of Perak to make the Kamunting road, and it excited much curiosity among the Malays at the [ 66 ] time.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

In the year 1624, when Yi Kwal raised an insurrection, he was the means of putting it down and of bringing many of his followers to justice.
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

Who says that the aristocracy are proud? Here was a lady by birth a Tyrrell, and descended from the great Sir Walter that shot King Rufus, and in whose veins ran the p. 166 blood of him who murdered the little princes in the Tower, going every day to see what dainty dishes she could prepare for Samuel Brown, a mountebank!
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

"It is only because I am tired and have such odious things to think about," she kept repeating; and it seemed an added injustice that petty cares should leave a trace on the beauty which was her only defence against them.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

Sigurd, who was sitting on the bench, takes a straw, and draws it along the floor, so that some young kittens ran after it.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Captain Piper, the Commandant, gave them a very kind reception, and it is said rescued the youngest son from the master of the whaler.
— from The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson With the journal of her first commander Lieutenant James Grant by Ida Lee

[Pg 340] ing next door say, a man who has known Rosa, as I told you ... See?"
— from Aliens by William McFee

As for coal, about three-fourths of the world's known reserves are in North America.
— from The Next Step: A Plan for Economic World Federation by Scott Nearing

I remembered the frequent mention of Moncton by Major Robinson in his well known report, and I felt how much I owed to his labours and to those of his efficient assistant Captain, now Sir Edmund Henderson.
— from England and Canada A Summer Tour Between Old and New Westminster, with Historical Notes by Sandford Fleming

Near the capital coal is mined at Yuen-ming-yuen, and in a variety of isolated deposits among the hills in the direction of the Kalgan road, and in the district round Siuen-hwa-fu.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

What she knew she passed unheedingly; what she was yet to know rose as if to strike her by its force.
— from A Son of the Hills by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock

The test of this writ thus directed to the bailiffes of saint Albons, was at Esthamstéed the third of August, in the fift yeare of this kings reigne, and in the yeare of our lord a thousand three hundred foure score and one.
— from Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (12 of 12) Richard the Second, the Second Sonne to Edward Prince of Wales by Raphael Holinshed

'You have killed rather an important person,' he said gravely.
— from Corleone: A Tale of Sicily by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

A few days were necessarily lost setting up and refitting the Kansas regiment after its rude experience in the Cimarron canyons.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan