Tillie Boulter says the master is dead gone on her.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Ang abug sa mata mamútà, If dust gets into the eyes it will turn into pus. (→) v [B146; a4] be filled with this secretion.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Ich heisse der reichste Mann in der getauften 5 Welt: Die Sonne geht in meinem Staat nicht unter —I pass for the richest man in the baptized world; the sun never sets in my dominions.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

—Melody Melody in stringed instruments 36 Grouping in unison 39 Stringed instruments doubling in octaves 40 Melody in double octaves 44 Doubling in three and four octaves 45 Melody in thirds and sixths 45 Melody in the wood-wind 46 Combination in unison 47 Combination in octaves 49 Doubling in two, three and four octaves 51 Melody in thirds and sixths 52 Thirds and sixths together 53 Melody in the brass 53 Brass in unison, in octaves, thirds and sixths 55 -IV- Melody in different groups of instruments combined together 56 A. Combination of wind and brass in unison 56 B. Combination of wind and brass in octaves 57 C. Combination of strings and wind 58 D. Combination of strings and brass 61 E. Combination of the three groups 61 Chapter III.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

I love my life's dark hours In which my senses quicken and grow deep, While, as from faint incense of faded flowers Or letters old, I magically steep Myself in days gone by: again I give Myself unto the past:—again I live.
— from Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke

Lay long in bed, and then up, and being desirous to perform my vowes that I lately made, among others, to be performed this month, I did go to my office, and there fell on entering, out of a bye-book, part of my second journall-book, which hath lain these two years and more unentered.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Best go quietly or I'll have to fix you up.' Exasperation and an overwhelming sense that at no cost must I delay gave me the strength of a bull elephant.
— from The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

As a young girl Victoria was very pretty, then she went through a period of homeliness, at which time a children's ball was given at Windsor Castle by King George in honour of a little visitor, Donna Maria II da Gloria, the child-Queen of Portugal, who was extremely pretty and very handsomely dressed, with a ribbon and glittering Order [47] over her shoulder, making little Victoria, in her simple dress and with her less brilliant appearance, look quite plain and unattractive—and not only was Donna Maria seated at the King's right hand, but he seemed greatly amused by her conversation.
— from Ten Girls from History by Kate Dickinson Sweetser

The country between it and Chepstow, from which it is distant about four miles, is delightfully green, but somewhat tame.
— from Wild Wales: The People, Language, & Scenery by George Borrow

"Dat curly-headed, pretty man in de green coat, dat was settin' in frunt ob yer in de ca'iage?"
— from The Lead of Honour by Norval Richardson