Mudakù ang kalimutaw sa iring ug magabíi, A cat’s eyes grow large in the evening.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

I thought of saying a few comforting and Christian words to the poor lady, but there was something in her face, as she looked after her husband when the door closed on him, that made me alter my mind and keep silence.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

There was once a man named Gûñskăli′skĭ, who had this medicine and used to hunt for Raven Mockers, and killed several.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Nakitábang (mipakitábang) ang kundinádu sa kinataliwad-an sa íyang kaguul, The condemned man called out for help in the midst of his sorrows.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

At last her ramblings ceased altogether, and her countenance began to clear—a welcome sign to Tom, who had learned her moods, and knew she was on the threshold of good-humor, now.
— from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

Unuj may be used to mean some in contrast to aliaj , others: Unuj marŝis , aliaj kuris, some walked, others ran.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

"And did the stranger do no more than, in his ignorance, touch your meat, and keep silence when you spoke?"
— from Bosambo of the River by Edgar Wallace

At Kirkdale, Ormskirk, Kirkham, Kirkby Lonsdale, Kirby Moorside, and Kirkby Stephen Norman churches have superseded Danish buildings.
— from The Danes in Lancashire and Yorkshire by S. W. Partington

The most ancient known seats of these dark Celts were in extreme western Europe and the isles adjacent.
— from Races and Peoples: Lectures on the Science of Ethnography by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton

General Lee manifested a kindly spirit for the freedmen, but he was unwilling to accept them as citizens endowed with the right of suffrage.
— from Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 2 by George S. (George Sewall) Boutwell

"Thank you for reminding me of my ancestors, kjaere," she said.
— from Katharine Frensham: A Novel by Beatrice Harraden

It is indeed a magnificent and kingly structure, or rather assemblage of structures, for the various parts have been built at widely different periods, and in every variety of form; but the whole seems most happily combined in one vast and imposing edifice, in which the strength, grandeur, and castellated style of the old baronial strong holds, is as remarkable, as the elegance, splendor, and comfort of a modern palace.
— from The Knickerbocker, Vol. 10, No. 2, August 1837 by Various

Children already arrived were playing with a soap-box and choice pebbles and a tin mug at keeping saloon.
— from The Spread Eagle and Other Stories by Gouverneur Morris