Kusga pagsulti kay unguy nang gikaisturya nímu, Speak loudly because you are talking to a deaf man.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Perkins patronized the shop over at The Gore, and like all the rest from his town, halting before Davy’s place, kept upon neutral ground, remaining in the middle of the road.
— from The House of Cariboo, and Other Tales from Arcadia by A. Paul Gardiner

G. Gaff , for salmon , kle-kw u n. Gambling disks , sla-hal´l u m. Get up , to , tsát-l u ng.
— from Alphabetical Vocabularies of the Clallum and Lummi by George Gibbs

Reise in den Kaukasies und nach Georgien, 1807-8. 2 vols. 8vo.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson by William Stevenson

Das Mittelfeld ist verhältnissmässig ziemlich klein und nicht geschlossen, indem kein Querast die beiden Mitteladern verbindet.
— from Fossil Butterflies Memoirs of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, I. by Samuel Hubbard Scudder

thy very gravediggers talk politics; and thy castaways kneel upon new graves, to discuss the cost of the monument and grumble at the improvidence of love.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 22 Juvenilia and Other Papers by Robert Louis Stevenson

As a matter of fact, the fundamental constitution of the kingdom underwent no great modification; it had merely one king the more to rule over it—not a stranger, as we are often tempted to conclude, when we come to measure these old-world revolutions by our modern standards of patriotism, but a native of the south, who took the place of those natives of the north who had succeeded one another on the throne since the days of Smendes.
— from History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 7 (of 12) by G. (Gaston) Maspero

He sank so low down in his chair that his chin was almost on a level with the table, and twice he kicked Carrie under the table, upset his wine, and flashed a knife uncomfortably near Gowing’s face.
— from The Diary of a Nobody by Weedon Grossmith

So with us—our ignorance of future is meant to have the effect of keeping us near God and training us to live a day at a time.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers by Alexander Maclaren