As if in confirmation of her assertion, a most unearthly din suddenly arose behind them.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

And indeed Herod's troubles in his family seemed to be augmented by reason of this attempt he made upon David's sepulcher; whether Divine vengeance increased the calamities he lay under, in order to render them incurable, or whether fortune made an assault upon him, in those cases wherein the seasonableness of the cause made it strongly believed that the calamities came upon him for his impiety; for the tumult was like a civil war in his palace, and their hatred towards one another was like that where each one strove to exceed another in calumnies.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Unsa kahay makagúwang (makapagúwang) ug dalì sa puthaw?
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Ang lapalapa mulikì ug dílì sapatúsan, Your soles will crack if you don’t wear shoes.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Dílì ka makadihàdihà ug dáwat sa báyad, You cannot receive your payment right then and there.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

From noon until midnight she was of to-day—smartly gowned, girlish; from midnight until dawn she was of yesterday—waking from her fitful slumbers at the first wailing note, presiding in gray gown and slippers over strange brews of catnip and of elderflower.
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

Ang dispatsir mangupit ug diyis sintábus sa draybir káda byáhi, The dispatcher extorts ten cents out of the driver each trip.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Kuráwa ang binulad arun mauga ug dalì, Stir the corn around so it will dry quickly.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

"Much YOU know of east winds, my ugly darling," said I, kissing her in my admiration—I coul
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Finally, with a view to expanding the currency, a step which the Democrats had long urged upon the country, the issuance of paper money, under definite safeguards, was authorized.
— from History of the United States by Mary Ritter Beard

He was thinking aloud, and making us do some thinking also.
— from Aztec Ruins National Monument, New Mexico by John M. Corbett

After the parade they took us in a back yard and made us do "stunts.
— from The Mermaid of Druid Lake, and Other Stories by Charles Weathers Bump

It is true that these are two distinct modes of conceiving Causation; and that in each of them the human mind, under different states of social and individual instruction, finds satisfaction.
— from Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 2 by George Grote

'Oh, some sweetheart, I suppose—some little German girl with whom he amused himself a while and then cast off, as men usually do such incumbrances.'
— from Tracy Park: A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes

"My ultimate decision!" said the Duke; "sir, there is no decision to be made: the matter is decided.—But go on, sir, go on—I am perfectly willing to hear.
— from The King's Highway by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

"Go ask the galleons and the merchantmen I have stripped and burned; go ask their crews, now wandering in misery upon desert shores, if they be not already dead.
— from Kate Bonnet: The Romance of a Pirate's Daughter by Frank Richard Stockton

"Science, great, mighty and in the end unerring," replied my uncle dogmatically, "science has fallen into many errors—errors which have been fortunate and useful rather than otherwise, for they have been the steppingstones to truth."
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne