[ccxxii] Alternative Version Silawasi tahu Dandi asal jadi, Dudok di balci kota mangka, Lima raut, raut rotan, Kalau rautan penjalin lukah, Ka’lukah si-bagei Allah.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Here was one magazine editor who knew real poetry when he saw it.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

We are indeed legislative members of a moral kingdom rendered possible by freedom, and presented to us by reason as an object of respect; but yet we are subjects in it, not the sovereign, and to mistake our inferior position as creatures, and presumptuously to reject the authority of the moral law, is already to revolt from it in spirit, even though the letter of it is fulfilled.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

La monaĥo restis tiun nokton ĉe la kamparano, kaj la sekvintan tagon li foriris, beninte la kamparanon, sed kaŝe ridante pri la afero.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

‘I know nothing of the kind,’ retorted Perker firmly.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

[Owing to the double meanings in the Chinese text, the latter part of the sentence is susceptible of quite a different meaning: "And thus, the weapon not being blunted by use, its keenness remains perfect.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

The table between the windows was covered with work-boxes and netting-boxes which had been given her at different times, principally by Tom; and she grew bewildered as to the amount of the debt which all these kind remembrances produced.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Kining kwartáha risirba pára sa timpu sa kalisud, This money is a reserve for difficult times.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Gurnemanz and Kundry robe Parsifal.
— from Philip Hale's Boston Symphony Programme Notes by Philip Hale

He is present in the world, as a king is in all parts of his kingdom regally present: providentially present with all, since his care extends to the meanest of his creatures.
— from The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2 by Stephen Charnock

‘I had no idea—’ ‘It has been kept rather private,’ she said calmly.
— from A Changed Man, and Other Tales by Thomas Hardy

Here my maiden aunt paused, more in sorrow than in anger, and little Kitty remarked playfully, "If truth lies at the bottom of a well, as you once told me, auntie, how could we ever reach it without going to the bottom?"
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 11, April, 1870 to September, 1870 by Various

It was a reasonable implication from these resolutions that if the Federalist majority continued to override the Constitution, the States must take more decisive action; but the only distinct suggestion of an attack on the Union is found in a second series of Kentucky resolutions, passed in 1799, in which it is declared that "nullification … of all unauthorized acts … is the rightful remedy."
— from Formation of the Union, 1750-1829 by Albert Bushnell Hart

Bolivia gas 4,883 km; liquid petroleum gas 47 km; oil 2,475 km; refined products 1,589 km (2008) Brazil condensate/gas 62 km; gas 9,892 km; liquid petroleum gas 353 km; oil 4,517 km; refined products 4,465 km (2008) Brunei gas 37 km; oil 18 km (2008)
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Over and over she kept repeating: "'Poleon!
— from The Winds of Chance by Rex Beach

At last he urges his father to allow him to pass the limits of the palace, and this the King reluctantly permits, after taking all precautions to arrange diverting spectacles, and to keep all painful objects at a distance.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Rustichello of Pisa