Mibukad ang núka, The infection spread out.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

"Your cigarette, Mr. Anders." "Nice trick," I said.
— from The Very Black by Dean Evans

With all the roughness and irregularity of his measure, and notwithstanding the inharmonious structure of continuous passages, his lines often have a weighty and impressive effect, like that produced by some of the great passages in Lucretius and Virgil.
— from The Roman Poets of the Republic, 2nd edition by W. Y. (William Young) Sellar

At the particular request of the author, Mr. Mawe has arranged a few collections of minerals, and numbered them in such manner as to correspond with, and illustrate the present volume.
— from Useful Knowledge: Volume 1. Minerals Or, a familiar account of the various productions of nature by William Bingley

"Master, allow not the idle shafts of the Port Watch to trouble you.
— from The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day by Richard Clynton

"I am delighted that you are so enamoured of my Stella ," he writes to Fritz Jacobi on March 21st, immediately after his return; "my heart and mind are now turned in such entirely different directions that my own flesh and blood is almost indifferent to me.
— from The Youth of Goethe by Peter Hume Brown

First, God did give the law that sin might abound, not that it should take away sin in any, but to discover the sin which is already begotten, or that may be hereafter begotten, by lust and Satan (Rom 5:20).
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

I think of the good Councillors of the Queen and of her Commissioners; I was told the Governor was a good man, and now that I see him I believe he is; in coming to see us, and what he has spoken, he has removed almost all obstacles and misunderstandings, and I hope he may remove them all.
— from The Treaties of Canada with the Indians of Manitoba and the North-West Territories Including the Negotiations on Which They Were Based, and Other Information Relating Thereto by Alexander Morris

The savant counts the stamens, numbers the pistils, delineates the leaves, marks the manner of growth, classifies, affixes a name, and is satisfied;—the poet studies the whole character of the plant, considering each of its attributes as a vehicle of expression, an ethical lesson; he notes its color, he seizes on its lines of grace or energy, rigidity or repose, remarks the feebleness or vigor, the serenity or tremulousness of its hues, observes its local habits, its love or fear of peculiar places, associating it with the features of the situations it inhabits, and the ministering agencies necessary to its support.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 by Various