What then is it in children that makes us so kiss, hug, and play with them, and that the bloodiest enemy can scarce have the heart to hurt them; but their ingredients of innocence and Folly, of which nature out of providence did purposely compound and blend their tender infancy, that by a frank return of pleasure they might make some sort of amends for their parents' trouble, and give in caution as it were for the discharge of a future education; the next advance from childhood is youth, and how favourably is this dealt with; how kind, courteous, and respectful are all to it?
— from In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus

Naghantánà na ang duha apan wà mahinayun ug sumbagay kay miabut ang pulis, The two were about to exchange blows when the policeman arrived.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

He afterwards became professor of Hebrew and the belles lettres at the University of Dôle, in France; but quarrelling with the Franciscan monks upon some knotty points of divinity, he was obliged to quit the town.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

Likíun (likiyun) kag búnal ni Pápa mu ug sakpan ka, Your father will beat you mercilessly if he catches you.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

m unto Sir Kay.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

But no, my uneasy spirit kept dragging me back at quarter-hour intervals; and always I saw Backus drinking his wine—fairly and squarely, and the others throwing theirs away.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

Dì ka makasungag ug sipilya kay dílì hámis ang ági, You cannot plane against the grain because it won’t come out smooth.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Do you think it a reasonable thing, dear Laura, that my uncle should keep us so strictly, that we must be beholden to hearsay, to know a young gallant is in the next house to us?
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 by John Dryden

He told me that they had asked him if I had hallucinations, that I was a person who was trying to make up some kind of story.
— from Warren Commission (11 of 26): Hearings Vol. XI (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Upon which Mr Underhill rose, and made him ready; and willing not that Mistress Underhill should know anything of the matter, he would not go into her chamber for any other gear, but cast about him such as he had there, which was a brave satin gown that he had worn the even afore.”
— from Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution by Emily Sarah Holt

He was a rare composition of the Jew, the gentleman, and the angel, yet all these elements mixed up so kindly in him that you could not tell which predominated; but he is gone, and one Phillips is engaged instead.
— from The Best Letters of Charles Lamb by Charles Lamb

As he spoke, Harry Denvil in white Mess uniform, scarlet kummerband, and jingling spurs, plunged into the room.
— from Captain Desmond, V.C. by Maud Diver

Magpista ug sugtun ka ni Maríya, It would be a miracle if Maria were to accept you.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Was I not picked up from the street, as my uncle so kindly informed me for the second time--like yourself?
— from Fires of St. John: A Drama in Four Acts by Hermann Sudermann

Meanwhile Ulysses scarcely knew how to discover himself with safety to his own person, fearing that he might be slain by those who were suitors to his wife.
— from Heathen mythology, Illustrated by extracts from the most celebrated writers, both ancient and modern by Various

"Here comes my uncle," said Kalitan, and he ran eagerly to meet an old Indian who came toward the camp from the shore.
— from Kalitan, Our Little Alaskan Cousin by Mary F. Nixon-Roulet