"But how must I manage about papa?
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Ang bísi mauy musunud ingkásug mamatay ang prisidinti, The vice-president succeeds in office if the president dies. — ug kasal
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The Science of Kriya Yoga Founding of a Yoga School at Ranchi Kashi, Reborn and Rediscovered Rabindranath Tagore and I Compare Schools The Law of Miracles An Interview with the Sacred Mother (Kashi Moni Lahiri) Rama is Raised from the Dead Babaji, the Yogi-Christ of Modern India Materializing a Palace in the Himalayas The Christlike Life of Lahiri Mahasaya Babaji's Interest in the West I Go to America Luther Burbank --
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

If you deign to honor me with the most modest offering, I shall immediately occupy myself in making a piesse of verse to pay you my tribute of gratitude.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

multīs idem minātur Antōnius , Ph. 11, 2, to many Antony threatens the same .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

By the Bull that bought me I made a promise—a little promise.
— from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

Many ill matters and projects are undertaken; and private suits do putrefy the public good.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

Her clear voice, tinkling as though with little golden bells, at first soft and hushed, rose throbbing in passion and then broke like a crystal ray and melted in mournfulness and plaintive prayer.
— from The Tour: A Story of Ancient Egypt by Louis Couperus

"Must it be a shot, or may I make a portrait?" asked the photographer, in her professional manner.
— from Mrs. Red Pepper by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond

My horse was cut on the flanks, and his plunging, with my disabled knee, delayed me in mounting, and prevented my seeing why the carriages kept to the grass instead of getting upon the roadway.
— from Famous Adventures and Prison Escapes of the Civil War by Basil Wilson Duke

When I made this unlucky match it was, as I have said, over a dinnerparty, when, excited by wine and carried away by the enthusiasm of the moment, I made a proposition which, with a calmer head, I should never have ventured.
— from Jack Hinton: The Guardsman by Charles James Lever

It is only lately that the general increase of efficiency, that is, of the Speaker, has made it mostly a place where people are prevented from talking.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Early every morning I made a pathetic memorial- pilgrimage to a large sheoli tree which shaded the smooth, green-gold lawn before our bungalow.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

He translated the ninth Letter relating to that Public Library; of which translation especial mention is made at p. 99, post.
— from A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One by Thomas Frognall Dibdin

" After this, considering him to be of a temper easy to be led to his duty by reason, but by no means to be compelled, he always endeavored to persuade rather than to command or force him to any thing; and now looking upon the instruction and tuition of his youth to be of greater difficulty and importance, than to be wholly trusted to the ordinary masters in music and poetry, and the common school subjects, and to require, as Sophocles says, The bridle and the rudder too, he sent for Aristotle, the most learned and most celebrated philosopher of his time, and rewarded him with a munificence proportionable to and becoming the care he took to instruct his son.
— from The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch Being Parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, Edited for Boys and Girls by Plutarch

5 It generally turns out too, that, whether intentionally or not, some of the most important motions are postponed until nearly the close of the meeting, when the greater part of the shareholders are gone.
— from Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative; Vol. 3 of 3 Library Edition (1891), Containing Seven Essays not before Republished, and Various other Additions. by Herbert Spencer