Dengan karna nenek ku orang bersidi sakti sabarang pinta’ sabarang menjadi dan barang kahandak barang buleh maka nenek pun jangan bertulah papa kadapatan seksa pada sakalian pa’yong ma’yong sakalian panjak pengantin dan pran tua pran muda dan minta’ nenek hulor kaki kaki hamba sujud dan hulor tangan tangan hamba jabat hamba handak minta’ penawar puteh mĕdong bersila deripada nenek yang sendi-sendi kramat hamba ’nak minta’ nenek turunkan tiga titek serta dengan kasaktian mu hamba ’nak perchik sakalian pa’yong ma’yong pran
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

If my mother did but know that, her heart would break."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

Made you my guardians, my depositaries; But kept a reservation to be followed With such a number.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

II Den alten Musen die bestäubten Kronen Nahmst Du, zu neuem Glanz, mit kühner Hand:
— from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Two days later Monsieur de Bourneval killed Monsieur de Courcils in a duel.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Muhílak diay bísag kumidiya ra.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

He gave him a purse of twenty ducats, and promised to provide for him handsomely: as great men do sometimes promise to reward their instruments; but you, Monsieur de Balibari, know how seldom those promises are kept.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

I did not know Madam Dupin, who never took the least notice to me of the matter, was so well informed: I know not yet whether Madam de Chenonceaux, her daughter-in-law, was as much in the secret: but Madam de Brancueil knew the whole and could not refrain from prattling.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Has she not, through M. de Bois, kept trace of all your movements during the years that you were separated?
— from Fairy Fingers A Novel by Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie

Now make thou no more delaying, be knighthood my lot straightway.'
— from Parzival: A Knightly Epic (vol. 1 of 2) by Wolfram, von Eschenbach, active 12th century

I was quite a stranger to Mr. Dodgson; but knowing from hearsay how reluctant he usually was to preach, I apologised and explained my position—with Sunday so near at hand.
— from The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

M. de Bois knew that it would be more difficult to prevent her being traced by her cousin than by any other person, and that it was by him Madeleine herself most feared to be discovered.
— from Fairy Fingers A Novel by Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie

Maréchal de Biron kept the field, and took every place that declared for the Huguenots, putting all that opposed him to the sword.
— from Memoirs and Historical Chronicles of the Courts of Europe Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of France, Wife of Henri IV; of Madame de Pompadour of the Court of Louis XV; and of Catherine de Medici, Queen of France, Wife of Henri II by Mme. Du Hausset

To insure the breaking of the arc, resistance was introduced in the arrester, the modified device being known as the low equivalent arrester as shown in fig.
— from Hawkins Electrical Guide v. 07 (of 10) Questions, Answers, & Illustrations, A progressive course of study for engineers, electricians, students and those desiring to acquire a working knowledge of electricity and its applications by N. (Nehemiah) Hawkins

Still, they are much daintier in their colouring than the more domestic brown kind; and, after all, in a lizard I demand beauty rather than advanced moral qualities.
— from Moorland Idylls by Grant Allen

Attacked on the left flank by the infantry, and on the rear by Colonel Lazard’s cavalry, the insurgents were driven back toward the mountains, dozens being killed in the rout.
— from The Dreadnought Boys Aboard a Destroyer by John Henry Goldfrap

“First, my dress,” began Kitty, perching herself on the arm of the sofa, and entering into the subject with enthusiasm.
— from Proverb Stories by Louisa May Alcott

"Mrs. De Burgho Keane wanted to know if she could be a German in disguise," giggled Violet, "because the old thing of course talks both languages.
— from The Scratch Pack by Dorothea Conyers