Einer kann reden und Sieben können singen —One can speak and seven can sing.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Mulugpad ka run ug suntúkun ta ka, I’ll send you reeling if I strike you.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Musípà ka run ug sagpáun ta ka, You will resound with a crack if I hit you.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

James, brooding in a small chair from which his knees ran uphill, shifted his feet uneasily, and put one of them down on the cat, which had unwisely taken refuge from old Jolyon beside him.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

[Kneels] Rise up, Sir John Mortimer.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

"You don't know," replied Ursula, superior.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

The only difference therefore here between knowledge resting upon such data, and knowledge resting upon complete data, lies not in the result obtained but in the confidence with which we entertain it.
— from The Logic of Chance, 3rd edition An Essay on the Foundations and Province of the Theory of Probability, With Especial Reference to Its Logical Bearings and Its Application to Moral and Social Science and to Statistics by John Venn

My knock remained unnoticed, so I presently introduced myself.
— from Eugene Pickering by Henry James

[209] Det tredje slag på gullharpan klang, Liten Kerstin räckta upp sin snöhvita arm.
— from The Fairy Mythology Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various Countries by Thomas Keightley

Kneel down, sir knight; rise up, sir knight; Here, take this sword, and hie thee to the fight.
— from Robert Greene: [Six Plays] by Robert Greene

My old friend Kite Roberson useter say, speaking of luck, and he give it as his own experience, that them as struck the best kinds of luck was them as worked the hardest for it, and ef they didn't get it one way they was sure to another.
— from Harper's Round Table, May 7, 1895 by Various

The estate of Maintenon being for sale, Madame de Montespan did not let the King rest until she had drawn from him enough to buy it for Madame Scarron, who thenceforth assumed its name.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

Th. Kirchhoff, Reisebilder und Skizzen aus America , 1876, vol.
— from Glacières; or, Freezing Caverns by Edwin Swift Balch

(H. Kähler, Rom und seine Welt , Pl. 49)
— from The Mute Stones Speak: The Story of Archaeology in Italy by Paul Lachlan MacKendrick

Yet at the centre, that undiscovered centre at present beyond his reach, Lettice, he knew, remained unalterably steadfast.
— from The Wave: An Egyptian Aftermath by Algernon Blackwood