When a state or nation issues more such promises than there is a likelihood of its being able to redeem, the paper representing the promises depreciates in value.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

Ug gustu kang muabut sa pyista, ubligádu kang mularga run, If you want to make it to the feast you must leave today.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

“Tell me, Mouston,” said Porthos, “are my arms in good condition?”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

And here we come to a point, where mythical superstition plays over into something more real, for I have been assured by reliable informants, and those not only natives, that there are cases of girls who will show a craving for raw meat, and when a pig is being quartered in the village will drink its blood and tear up its flesh.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

He then sent messages to all the lendermen, selected the most considerable men in each district, and made the most splendid preparations to meet his bride.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Mrs. Stevens' pictures were well considered when she exhibited a variety of subjects; of late, however, she has made a specialty of pictures of gardens, and has painted in many famous English and French gardens, among others, those of Holland House, Warwick Castle, and St. Anne's, Dublin.
— from Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. by Clara Erskine Clement Waters

No textbooks are used, but the booklets on machine shop practice published by the International Correspondence Schools are studied in connection with the course.
— from Wage Earning and Education by R. R. (Rufus Rolla) Lutz

I did not attend my brother whilst he took the medicine, and therefore I cannot speak precisely to the operation of it; but I remember, by his letters, that he was dreadfully sick and ill for several days before the secretion of urine came on, but which it did do to a great degree; relieved his breath, and greatly lessened the swelling in his legs and thighs; but the two instances I have lately seen in this part of the world, are much stronger proofs of the efficacy of it than my brother's case.
— from An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases by William Withering

This arrangement was made, and all kinds of fraud were impossible, as the deputy of M. Soupe Pierrugues delivered wines only on a note signed by the controller of the kitchen; all the bottles not opened were returned, and each evening an account was given of what had been used for that day.
— from Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Complete by Louis Constant Wairy

She had read of love, she had thought of love, a thousand sweet lyrics had sounded through her brain and left fine fragments in her memory; she poured it out, all of it, shamelessly, skilfully, for me.
— from Tono-Bungay by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells