Original IT is said that many an unlucky urchin is induced to run away from his family and betake himself to a seafaring life from reading the history of Robinson Crusoe; and I suspect that, in like manner, many of those worthy gentlemen who are given to haunt the sides of pastoral streams with angle-rods in hand may trace the origin of their passion to the seductive pages of honest Izaak Walton.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

Muúrus ang unud ug isugba sa káyu, Meat sizzles if you broil it over fire.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

But if by Facetious Horace had meant jesting , and such as is design'd to make men laugh, and apply'd that to Virgil , nothing 43 could have been more ridiculous; 'tis the design of Comedy to raise laughter, but Eclogue should only delight, and charm by its takeing prettiness : All ravishing Delicacies of Thought, all sweetness of Expression, all that Salt from which Venus , as the Poets Fable, rose; are so essential to this kind of Poetry , that it cannot endure any thing that is scurillous, malitiously biteing, or ridiculous: There must be nothing in it but Hony, Milk, Roses, Violets , and the like sweetness, so that when you read you might think that you are in Adonis 's Gardens, as the Greeks speak, i.e. in the most pleasant place imaginable: For since the subject of Eclogue must be mean and unsurprizing, unless it maintains purity and neatness of Expression, it cannot please.
— from De Carmine Pastorali Prefixed to Thomas Creech's translation of the Idylliums of Theocritus (1684) by René Rapin

Which last, though blue beyond all shadow of doubt, yet manifested itself in divers quite ordinary ways as,—in complexions of cream and roses; in skins sallow and wrinkled; in noses haughtily Roman or patricianly Greek, in noses mottled and unclassically uplifted; in black hair, white hair, yellow, brown, and red hair;—such combinations as he had seen many and many a time on village greens, and at country wakes and fairs.
— from The Amateur Gentleman by Jeffery Farnol

The use of tobacco either by chewing or smoking [Pg 82] gradually causes in any one the growth of an appetite which makes him feel miserable and unhappy unless it is kept satisfied.
— from Health Lessons, Book 1 by Alvin Davison

Some means are unquestionably used in every case to make the dying believer feel that he is safe.
— from Catharine by Nehemiah Adams

I mos' knows my baskit won't weigh no two hunderd an' fawty-seven poun's. 'Tain't fa'r ter 'spec' that much from me: it's a heap more'n tother gals gits, an' mos' all uv um is heap bigger'n me.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118 by Various

However, I resolved not to let the alarm cause me any uneasiness until I had certain proof that it was not a trick.
— from Mauprat by George Sand

Here also we have proof that the Crusaders themselves hewed stones with a marginal draft and a rude rustic boss, for no old materials are used up in ’Athlît, and drafted stones occur even in the voussoirs of the pointed arches.
— from Tent Work in Palestine: A Record of Discovery and Adventure by C. R. (Claude Reignier) Conder