Mu ra ka mag napildi sa sugal, You look as if you lost in gambling.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

what’s the matter with? Unsa ka bang sultían, mu ra ka mag bungul, What’s the matter with you that when I talk to you you act deaf? 4 at the end of a phrase: it is so, is it not?
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

So it was ordered that Tom should have drawing-lessons; and whom should Mr. Stelling have selected as a master if not Mr. Goodrich, who was considered quite at the head of his profession within a circuit of twelve miles round King's Lorton?
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

‘Surely there is no necessity for you to say one word, mama?’ reasoned Kate.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

When dried to summer dust; till taught by pain Men really know not what good water 's worth; If you had been in Turkey or in Spain, Or with a famish'd boat's-crew had your berth, Or in the desert heard the camel's bell, You 'd wish yourself where Truth is—in a well.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Mrs. Reed kept the orphan ten years: whether it was happy or not with her, I cannot say, never having been told; but at the end of that time she transferred it to a place you know—being no other than Lowood School, where you so long resided yourself.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Pamáhaw na mu kay musunud ra ku, Eat your breakfast now because I’ll eat next.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Not a soul of all my relations know of it but Anne, and I never should have mentioned it to you, if I had not felt the greatest dependence in the world upon your secrecy; and I really thought my behaviour in asking so many questions about Mrs. Ferrars must seem so odd, that it ought to be explained.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

By Milton R. Konvitz.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1973 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

He extended Himself beside me, pressed me Page 133 [133] so closely that I could feel His crown of thorns, and the nails in His feet and hands, while He pressed His lips over mine, giving me the most ravishing kiss of a divine Spouse, and sending a delicious thrill through my entire body."
— from Religion & Sex: Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development by Chapman Cohen

There was a certain narrowness in their devotion; they had their bitternesses and ignorances like other people; but the more Robert knew of them the more profound became his admiration for that potent spirit of social help which in our generation Comtism has done so much to develop, even among those of us who are but moderately influenced by Comte’s philosophy, and can make nothing of the religion of Humanity.
— from Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

If she did ask him, as sometimes she would, to let her go out to a sermon, he would in a churlish manner reply, Keep at home, keep at home and look to your business, we cannot live by hearing of sermons.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

What all this might mean Ralph knew not; but when he had looked long at the greenery and its images, he said to himself that if he who wrought that cloth had not done the young woman after the likeness of the Lady whom he had helped in the wildwood, then it must have been done from her twin sister.
— from The Well at the World's End: A Tale by William Morris

Participating entirely in these sentiments, as far as political matters were concerned, I felt myself bound to give the fullest effect to the views of his Excellency, and notify the intended movement of the troops to the south to Meer Roostum Khan.”—[ Sir A. Burnes to Government: Rohree, January 28, 1839.
— from History of the War in Afghanistan, Vol. 1 (of 3) Third Edition by Kaye, John William, Sir

If a man really knows electricity he can cause change; he can illumine cities and drive cars.
— from Christianity and Progress by Harry Emerson Fosdick

As my readers know, the Museum became a fact in 1876, but two years earlier, in 1874, there had been earnest talk about a school of drawing and painting, and though nothing was actually done, yet the ground was prepared by much discussion for establishing such a school on right principles of theory and practice when the time should come for doing something.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, July 1885, No. 10 by Chautauqua Institution

These are all cases of asexual multiplication, and there are other instances, and still more extraordinary ones, in which this process takes place naturally, in a more hidden, a more recondite kind of way.
— from Lectures and Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley