The little one added, "Do you think that the good will is wanting?
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

unap v [A1; a2] peel off the thin outer layer of a dried, young nipa leaf for smoking.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

"You lay off and devote yourself to your duties about the home."
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

Ha! uncle," answered the Count, laughing out aloud; "do you take those bibbers of blue wine, those swallowers of veal—at twenty sous a plate—to be capable of making a revolution?"
— from The Galley Slave's Ring; or, The Family of Lebrenn A Tale of The French Revolution of 1848 by Eugène Sue

cloth, illustrated and with full colored jacket Fascinating stories of great mysteries and extreme perils—the life of a daring young reporter for a metropolitan daily, written by one who was himself a reporter for sixteen years.
— from Navy Boys Behind the Big Guns; Or, Sinking the German U-Boats by Halsey Davidson

After skipping in an ordinary way for a few rounds, he begins the variations, which consist, amongst other things, of his taking thorns out of his feet, digging as if for larv' of ants, digging yams, grinding grass-seed, jumping like a frog, doing a sort of cobbler's dance, striking an attitude as if looking for something in the distance, running out, snatching up a child, and skipping with it in his arms, or lying flat down on the ground, measuring his full length in that position, rising and letting the rope slip under him; the rope going the whole time, of course, never varying in pace nor pausing for any of the variations.
— from The Euahlayi Tribe: A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia by K. Langloh (Katie Langloh) Parker

Her legacy to the nation, catalogued in more than a hundred pages, pictures some thousand species of flowers and plants, from nearly all parts of the world, for the most part executed on the spot within little over a dozen years.
— from Kew Gardens With 24 full-page Illustrations in Colour by A. R. Hope (Ascott Robert Hope) Moncrieff

Moore, for her part, delighted in the task, because it gave her importance; she liked to lord it a little over a docile yet quick pupil.
— from Shirley by Charlotte Brontë

If you are a lawyer, or a doctor, you are dishonorable if you tell your wife or any other human being any secret of client or patient.
— from The Young Man and the World by Albert J. (Albert Jeremiah) Beveridge

What line of action—how beautifully you express yourself; such language only comes to the good and clever—what line of action do you advise me to adopt?”
— from Great Porter Square: A Mystery. v. 2 by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon

"In the name of Heaven!" exclaimed Pierrot, with a look of astonishment, "do you know he is now besieging Rochelle with a powerful army?
— from Lord Montagu's Page: An Historical Romance by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

You do not feel—the lack of anything, do you?"
— from A Modern Chronicle — Volume 05 by Winston Churchill