Rudyard Kipling uses this method—as have many others on both sides—in discussing the great European war.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

Kusug siyang mutúpù piru nagpabíling dága, She loves to match others off, but she herself stays single.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

In some cases a steel or iron article is often represented by a mass of oxide bearing some resemblance to the original.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

As to rewards from himself, I ask'd only one, which was, that he would give orders to his officers not to enlist any more of our bought servants, and that he would discharge such as had been already enlisted.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

It was poor Tom Stubble, who had marched out of Brussels so gallantly twenty-four hours before, bearing the colours of the regiment, which he had defended very gallantly upon the field.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

I could hear the murmur of our brook somewhere ahead of me, but there was a tangle of trees and brushwood between me and it.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

bagumbáyan n snack made of old bread, sugared and fried.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Accept, O Lord, these prayers, poured from the very bottom of our hearts, in Thy mercy, and for the merits of our blessed Saviour.
— from Three Prayers and Sermons by Jonathan Swift

Hear, Lord, and save us, for the infinite merits of our blessed Saviour, thy Son, our Lord Jesus Christ.
— from The Book of Common Prayer and The Scottish Liturgy by Episcopal Church in Scotland

It putteth on the cope-stone, that so many of our brethren should not be so faithful, as their calling and this cause craveth.
— from A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields

A many of our bodies shall no doubt Find native graves; upon the which, I trust, Shall witness live in brass of this day's work.
— from King Henry V by William Shakespeare

The perfume of violets and hyacinths, and of myriads of opening buds seemed shed by the moon with her silvery rays through the soft, dewy air; a few nocturnal insects droned hither and thither, and “drowsy tinklings lulled the distant folds.”
— from The Red Acorn by John McElroy