Meanwhile there was the snow and the low arch of dun vapor—there was the stifling oppression of that gentlewoman's world, where everything was done for her and none asked for her aid—where the sense of connection with a manifold pregnant existence had to be kept up painfully as an inward vision, instead of coming from without in claims that would have shaped her energies.—
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

An' I meean as the King 'ull put a stop to 't, for them say it as knows it, as there's to be a Rinform, and them landlords as never done the right thing by their tenants 'ull be treated i' that way as they'll hev to scuttle off.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

It will be recollected that the doctor was a great exacter of full evening dress at dinner, as tending to keep up proper appearances.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

Muupisína ku ug píkas adlaw lang, I’ll be in the office only half day.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Kanunayana (kanunayani) ug páhid ang singtánun mung nawung, Wipe your sweaty face frequently.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Nagkawkus ang magsúun kun unsáun pagbáhin ang yútà, The brothers were discussing how to divide the land.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Uspag kaáyu ug pánit ang nagpuyù sa isla, People living on islands have very dry skin.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

There is water enough in 103 now , yet there may not be by the time we get there; but the bank will keep us posted all along.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

They were condemned as being contrary to the general interests of consumers; for, burdened with enormous debts, wasting their money in festivals, feasts, and legal expenses, condemned to laborious methods of manufacture through their inability to improve them, they were yet able by means of their monopolies to keep up prices and to make unduly large profits, without even being capable of satisfying their clients if they expressed the smallest desire to have something out of the ordinary.
— from Guilds in the Middle Ages by Georges François Renard

His leader had to take first three turns, and he doesn't know us properly and kept missing the cues for changes.
— from Nights in London by Thomas Burke

Mulugum ang kulur ug putì ang ipaluyu, A color becomes deeper in hue if it is set off against a white background.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Queen Elizabeth got so many valuable presents in this way that a list of them was kept upon parchment, and in the history books it may still be read.
— from Holidays & Happy-Days by Hamish Hendry

They were not trades unions: that is, they did not exist for the purpose of keeping up prices and wages.
— from Early London: Prehistoric, Roman, Saxon and Norman by Walter Besant

The headquarters bosses don't know us personally, and judge by a man's training and the certificates he's got.
— from The Girl from Keller's by Harold Bindloss