Ang batuung karsáda muhílis ug gúma, A rough road wears tires down.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Many African bishops might understand Greek, and many Greek theologians were translated into Latin.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

My uncle gave a loud stamp on the boot in the energy of the moment, and—found that it was gray morning, and he was sitting in the wheelwright’s yard, on the box of an old Edinburgh mail, shivering with the cold and wet and stamping his feet to warm them!
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

The chasm, deep, black, and hoary, swept from the summit to the base; in the fissures of the rock myrtle underwood grew and wild thyme, the food of many nations of bees; enormous crags protruded into the cleft, some beetling over, others rising perpendicularly from it.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The Mabinogion, however, are full of black men, usually giants, always terrible to encounter.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

You'll find the rifle in the place we hid it; take it, and keep it for my sake; and, harkee, lad, as your natural gifts don't deny you the use of vengeance, use it a little freely on the Mingoes; it may unburden griefs at my loss, and ease your mind.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

We cannot precisely circumscribe the actions, we interdict them; they must guess at our meaning under general and doubtful terms; the very idea we invent for their chastity is ridiculous: for, amongst the greatest patterns that I have is Fatua, the wife of Faunus: who never, after her marriage, suffered herself to be seen by any man whatever; and the wife of Hiero, who never perceived her husband’s stinking breath, imagining that it was common to all men.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

By gar, I am cozened; I ha' married un garcon, a boy; un paysan, by gar, a boy; it is not Anne Page; by gar, I am cozened.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The root is slender, running much under ground, and shooting up again in many places, and both leaves and roots are very hot and sharp of taste, like pepper, for which cause it took the name.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

My uncle gazed at me as if he could not fully appreciate the meaning of my words.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

Here nature imposes even on the most universal genius a limit it cannot pass, and truth will make martyrs as long as philosophy will be reduced to make its principal occupation the search for arms against errors.
— from Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller by Friedrich Schiller

But, despite this, the buried fakirs, who are two months under ground and then come back into life, are very serious men.
— from The Continental Classics, Volume XVIII., Mystery Tales Including Stories by Feodor Mikhailovitch Dostoyevsky, Jörgen Wilhelm Bergsöe and Bernhard Severin Ingemann by Various

My uncle got a copy of this paper—it was found later in the room he had occupied at a hotel—and this evidently frightened him so much that he disappeared."
— from Dave Porter At Bear Camp; Or, The Wild Man of Mirror Lake by Edward Stratemeyer

It is by no means impossible that future botanists will refer all these species to the old Linnæan genus Asplenium ; for it is now pretty generally admitted that differences in venation do not constitute valid generic distinctions, and a radicant bud on the [099] frond is common in many undeniably genuine Asplenia : and since Diplazium , with double involucres placed back to back on the same vein, is inseparable from Asplenium , it is by no means impossible that Scolopendrium and Camptosorus should be thought to have no better claim to rank as genera.
— from Beautiful Ferns by Daniel Cady Eaton

We often talk of it—how our master has been taken prisoner, and how hard it is to get his ransom;—I mean my friends in the village;—all of us have necklaces with much useless gold and silver coin on them, and so we girls have agreed to put this money together that we have no use for and give it to you, gracious lady, to send off as ransom for our master."
— from The Golden Age in Transylvania by Mór Jókai

In the course of the winter my uncle gave a party, to afford me an opportunity of becoming acquainted with the young people of the place.
— from The Path of Duty, and Other Stories by Harriet S. Caswell

The incessant flash and clash of steel, the quick changes in position, the need to bring all powers of body and mind to aid of eye and wrist, the will to win, the shame of loss, the rage and lust of blood,—there was no sight or sound outside that trampled circle that could force itself upon our brain or make us glance aside.
— from To Have and to Hold by Mary Johnston

But shake away, 'twill make us gay, And help to cheer us on our way."
— from Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various