The guilty man is said to avoid looking at his accuser, or to give him stolen looks.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

Dúgayng nakagúwang ang giítus námung asúkal, hidaghanan ra sigúru sa túbig, The sugar we were making into syrup took a long time to harden.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Of one thing I felt more strongly convinced than ever, after spending this month in seeing the actual life of the coloured people, and that was that, in order to lift them up, something must be done more than merely to imitate New England education as it then existed.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

"Eat not garlic nor onions, lest they find out thy boorish origin by the smell; walk slowly and speak deliberately, but not in such a way as to make it seem thou art listening to thyself, for all affectation is bad.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Taking arms to have a territorial limitation—a point which still finds a certain amount of acceptance in Scottish heraldry—there was no doubt that a man, in succeeding to a lordship in right of his wife, would wish to bear the arms associated therewith.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

"Which means, I suppose, that a lot of rubbishy ancestors is better than a fortune in the Funds.
— from Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 by Various

Approaching the nearest to the shore with great care, I baited my hook with a living ground-worm, the greater part of which was left at liberty to writhe as it pleased, and, throwing the line up the stream, managed it so that at last it passed over the border of the nest, when I allowed it to remain on the bottom.
— from Audubon and His Journals, Volume 2 (of 2) by John James Audubon

Mulier ibīdem statim trēs aliōs librōs exūssit 10 ; atque id 11 ipsum dēnuō placidē rogat, ut 12 trēs reliquōs eōdem illō pretiō emat.
— from Selections from Viri Romae by C. F. L'Homond

"Don't mind if she tips a little, if we get any wind.
— from The Rival Campers Ashore; or, The Mystery of the Mill by Ruel Perley Smith

yet he would manage it so that at least he would take them there, and on the following day he would return.
— from The Home; Or, Life in Sweden by Fredrika Bremer

After sitting with her some time, I happened to ask her mother, if she thought a little port wine would do her good.
— from The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1 by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Mr Starling, having gone to church in the morning, invariably spent the afternoon lying back in a cosy corner of the green-house, smoking and reading a Sunday newspaper.
— from The Little School-Mothers by L. T. Meade

For money is simply the accumulated labor of the past, guarding our peace as fleets and armies guard the industry of England, or like some mighty fortress-wall within which men follow the most peaceful avocations.
— from The Intellectual Life by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Then with surprising presence of mind, I sprang to a ladder that led to the water tank, swarmed up it with the agility of a cat and lowered myself with a gasp of despair into the cold, cold water of the tank.
— from Biltmore Oswald The Diary of a Hapless Recruit by Thorne Smith