The bakunáwa is said to be disturbed by noise and will release the sun or moon if noise is made.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

“And may I not, in my turn,” said he, as he pushed back the folding doors, “ask how you came here?
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Our Substance is the higher part, which we have in our Father, God Almighty; and the Second Person of the Trinity is our Mother in Nature, in making of our Substance: in whom we are grounded and rooted.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

The Pomegranate (Fig. 495), which dimidiated with a rose was one of the badges of Queen Mary, is not infrequently met with.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

I know no medium: I never in my life have known any medium in my dealings with positive, hard characters, antagonistic to my own, between absolute submission and determined revolt.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

THE BEGINNING OF A LONG JOURNEY What is natural in me, is natural in many other men, I infer, and so I am not afraid to write that I never had loved Steerforth better than when the ties that bound me to him were broken.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

He's just a plain, good man I never in my life could dream of having.
— from Humoresque: A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It by Fannie Hurst

The strength of the reproductive force in the animal and vegetable kingdoms—such facts as that a single pair of salmon might, if preserved from their natural enemies for a few years, fill the ocean; that a pair of rabbits would, under the same circumstances, soon overrun a continent; that many plants scatter their seeds by the hundred fold, and some insects deposit thousands of eggs; and that everywhere through these kingdoms each species constantly tends to press, and when not limited by the number of its enemies, evidently does press, against the limits of subsistence—is constantly cited, from Malthus down to the text-books of the present day, as showing that population likewise tends to press against subsistence, and, when unrestrained by other means, its natural increase must necessarily result in such low wages and want, or, if that will not suffice, and the increase still goes on, in such actual starvation, as will keep it within the limits of subsistence.
— from Progress and Poverty, Volumes I and II An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth by Henry George

[Glancing at MRS MARCH] I never in my life knew anything so ridiculous.
— from Plays : Fifth Series by John Galsworthy

The medal is now in Mr. Taylor’s possession.
— from The Ceramic Art A Compendium of The History and Manufacture of Pottery and Porcelain by Jennie J. Young

I cried, "let us have no sniveling or humbug: mercy is not in my power, as you ought to know.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various

If it will not, then your objection to me is nothing; it merely asks me to assign limits within which the exercise of the affection in question may be acceptable, or almost equally acceptable, in cases of a partially enlightened understanding.
— from The Eclipse of Faith; Or, A Visit to a Religious Sceptic by Henry Rogers

“Not to-night—not till—John, I may tell him, may I not? I must tell him at once.”
— from The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne by Anthony Trollope