Magiblang ang kalyi ug magtagà ang láray sa lubi, The street will become wide if you cut down the row of coconut trees.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Do you know?' urged Miss Abbey.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

But what I particularly observed, before I had been half-an-hour in the house, was the close and attentive watch Miss Dartle kept upon me; and the lurking manner in which she seemed to compare my face with Steerforth’s, and Steerforth’s with mine, and to lie in wait for something to come out between the two.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Mapihaw ku ug mutaas ang núta, I go off-key on the high notes.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

When he had finished his poetry, he slobbered a most evil-smelling kiss upon me, and then, climbing upon my couch, he proceeded with all his might and main to pull all of my clothing off.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

And therewith he took his harness and went out at a window by a sheet down to the four knights, and then Sir Launcelot said on high, Turn you knights unto me, and leave your fighting with that knight.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

Magkabalhibu ka ug musapígad ang iring sa ímung bitíis, You’ll get hair all over you if the cat rubs itself against your leg.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

He has bestowed many kindnesses upon me, and I feel grateful to him; my affection for him is all the greater because he never teases me with his dogmatic lessons or with sermons respecting my salvation, of which I have no doubt that God, in His fatherly goodness, will take care.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

On a time, while I was meditating respecting heaven and hell, I began to desire a universal knowledge of the state of each, being aware, that whoever knows universals, may afterwards comprehend particulars, because the latter are contained in the former, as parts in a whole.
— from The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love To Which is Added The Pleasures of Insanity Pertaining To Scortatory Love by Emanuel Swedenborg

They see no change in my manners and appearance; I keep up my acquaintances and pleasures and seek the society of my friends.
— from The Cross of Berny; Or, Irene's Lovers by Girardin, Emile de, Mme

Her eyelids were slowly lifted, and once more her clear eyes shone kindly upon me, and again she smiled.
— from The Torrents of Spring by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Then, before I had time to realise what was happening, I was lifted off my feet, and, despite my desperate struggles and ineffectual efforts to shout for assistance, carried in through an open doorway and flung upon my face upon the ground, where someone at once knelt upon me and securely lashed my hands behind my back, some other individual at the same instant lashing my ankles firmly together.
— from A Pirate of the Caribbees by Harry Collingwood

Maháyag ang kwartu ug musilib ang adlaw gíkan sa kakahúyan, The room will become bright when the sun appears from behind the trees.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

About this time Maria Theresa, Contessa de Montelin, ex-Queen of Spain, when she was on her death-bed, sent for Isabel, and charged her to keep up, maintain, and promote certain pious societies which she had started in Trieste.
— from The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton: The Story of Her Life. Volume II by W. H. (William Henry) Wilkins

As the "President" hauled down nearer, the "Endymion" sheered off, keeping up meanwhile a vigorous cannonade.
— from The Naval History of the United States. Volume 2 by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot