B.—Tapwana (Main Part) 3 3 Ipolu, It boils, ipolu it boils, ipolu it boils … … agu my sulumwoya mint plant ipolu; it boils; agu my vana, herb ornaments, ipolu; it boils agu my kena lime spatula ipolu; it boils; agu my yaguma lime pot ipolu; it boils; agu my sinata comb ipolu; it boils; agu my mo’i mat ipolu; it boils; agu my pari presentation goods ipolu; it boils; agu my vataga big basket ipolu; it boils; agu my kauyo personal basket ipolu; it boils; agu my lilava magical bundle ipolu.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Meanwhile Paul Petrovitch glanced at Arkady as much as to say: "Admit that your friend has beautiful manners!"
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

“I shall be happy if it’s in my power...” Pierre grew confused.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

But logical judgments are not the deepest and most fundamental to which the daring of our suspicion descends: the confidence in reason which is inseparable from the validity of these judgments, is, as confidence, a moral phenomenon ... perhaps German pessimism has yet to take its last step?
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Aye—I know—there are a set of malicious prating prudent Gossips both male and Female, who murder characters to kill time, and will rob a young Fellow of his good name before He has years to know the value of it. . .
— from The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Lear on a bed, asleep, soft music playing; Physician, Gentleman and others attending.
— from The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare

How many poor peasant girls must have had such dreams as they looked up from their drudgery to the brilliant chateaux?
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Mula-mula melentor mayang, pegangkan puchok, gunchang tiga kali, bacha tiga kali:— Al-salam ʿaleikum Putri Satukum
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

mundberd = mundbyrd mundbora m. protector, preserver, guardian, advocate , Æ: prefect .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

But we all are men In our owne natures fraile, and capable Of our flesh, few are Angels; out of which frailty And want of wisedome, you that best should teach vs, Haue misdemean'd your selfe, and not a little: Toward the King first, then his Lawes, in filling The whole Realme, by your teaching & your Chaplaines (For so we are inform'd) with new opinions, Diuers and dangerous; which are Heresies; And not reform'd, may proue pernicious Gard.
— from Henry VIII by William Shakespeare

Special interests of the faculty include stratigraphy, biostratigraphy, geomorphology, sedimentology, structural geology, tectonics, igneous and metamorphic petrology, petroleum geology, paleontology, cartography, archaeology, and Indians and their culture of the south central United States.
— from Guidebook of Palo Duro Canyon by West Texas State University. Geological Society

Farmers Durango y Oconna, (Ocon) Sanchez, Alberto Cartinez, Jose Guierre, Manuello Flores, Gregory Procell and Salvadore Bano, Sanchez, Juan De More, Pedro Pasquell, Gaspardo Conterio, Patrice Lopez, Cadet Toro, Mechell La Rouex and Antonie Sepulvado.
— from No Man's Land: A History of El Camino Real by Louis Raphael Nardini

"If I could have had the choice," said Miss Pitcher, pensively gazing at this portrait, "I would rather have been that noble creature than any one else on history's page."
— from Dorothy, and Other Italian Stories by Constance Fenimore Woolson

The Preamble to the latter Treaty recites: "It having pleased the Divine Providence to dispose the hearts of the most serene and most potent Prince George the Third, &c., and of the United States of America to forget all past misunderstandings and differences that have unhappily interrupted the good correspondence and friendship, which they mutually wish to restore; and to establish such a beneficial and satisfactory intercourse ' between the two countries , &c.'" And then comes the 1st article, which is identical in language with the Treaty with the Netherlands, of 1782: "His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz., New Hampshire, &c., to be free, sovereign and independent States.
— from Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York by A. F. (Adolphus Frederick) Warburton

Then once more:— “I beg your pardon—I thought you were Mrs. Pratt——” “Put grammar—straight to fowk’s hearts—sinks and slopstones an’ all t’ lot——” “No, Balliol——” “But listen, Pratt, the way the mistake arose——” “Ellen Key, of course——” “The ‘Times!’—As if the ‘Times’ wasn’t always wrong!——” “There’s a raucousness about her paint——” “The Caxton Hall, at eight—do come!——” “But we authors are so afraid of sentiment nowadays!——” “Bombay, I think—or else Hyderabad——” “Oh, he talks like a fool!——”
— from Gray youth: The story of a very modern courtship and a very modern marriage by Oliver Onions

f. foot; m. mouth; ph. pharynx; gs. bilobed stomach; pi. intestine; shs.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 2 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Invertebrata by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

"And what of my profit?" "Profit!" gasped Grobstock.
— from The King of Schnorrers: Grotesques and Fantasies by Israel Zangwill

[Rafael ARRIAGA Martinez] Political pressure groups and leaders:
— from The 1997 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

As we ran down to Shalmaneser’s lions he confided to me that for some reason, wholly concealed from him, wallah, he was not beloved of the Ḳâimmaḳâm of Bumbuj, and added that he proposed to place himself under my protection, please God.
— from Amurath to Amurath by Gertrude Lowthian Bell