Dì ku muusar ug lipstik, I don’t use lipstick.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

And if time was, when this round Earth, which to innumerable mortals has seemed an empire never to be wholly explored; which, in its seas, concealed all the Indies over four thousand five hundred years; if time was, when this great quarry of Assyrias and Romes was not extant; then, time may have been, when the whole material universe lived its Dark Ages; yea, when the Ineffable Silence, proceeding from its unimaginable remoteness, espied it as an isle in the sea.
— from Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville

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— from Child Stories from the Masters Being a Few Modest Interpretations of Some Phases of the Master Works Done in a Child Way by Maud Menefee

He arrived in the summer of 1795, when the whole country was in a ferment respecting the treaty with Great Britain; and partly on that account, but chiefly because he supposed his communication on the subject of the flag must be made to the Congress direct, he did not announce to the president that complimentary portion of his mission until late in December.
— from Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. by Benson John Lossing

"Will you kindly postpone your questions, Mitchell, until later; I desire to converse with my friends now."
— from I Spy by Natalie Sumner Lincoln

If I work for good desert, and slave, and lie awake at night, and spend my unborn life in dreams, not a blink, nor wink, nor inkling of my labour ever tells.
— from Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

"Now, zhentlemens, I have devise my plan for de benefit of America, vich is de most unwholesome land in de earth, full of de exhalation and de miasm, de effluvium from de decay animal and vegetable.
— from Sheppard Lee, Written by Himself. Vol. 2 (of 2) by Robert Montgomery Bird

Et quelle merveille que le corps obéisse dan l’état sain, puisqu’un torrent de sang et d’esprits vient l’y forcer, la volonté ayant pour ministres une légion invisible de fluides plus vifs que l’éclair, et toujours prêts a la servir!
— from Man a Machine by Julien Offray de La Mettrie

de Paul Morand & une lettre inedite de Marcel Proust.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1963 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office