And, having all, you can request no more, Unless your unrelenting flinty hearts Suppress all pity in your stony breasts, And now shall move you to bereave my life.
— from The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe
Ngánung magpaságad (magpasagad) ka man ug yabu ug túbig sa bintánà?
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
He who strikes fire from the shield, Einar, may some day make us yield, Unless our axe-edge quickly ends, With sudden kiss, what he intends.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson
Take my umbrella.” “Your umbrella.…
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“You have a claim on me, Mr. Oldbuck, were my business more urgent,” said Neville, “for having passed myself upon you under a false name, and rewarding your hospitality by injuring your nephew.”
— from The Antiquary — Complete by Walter Scott
You may use your uncle; the others hope to use you."
— from The Art of Disappearing by John Talbot Smith
But often do I revolve them, for the sake of the general similitude which they bear to my unhappy, yet undersigned error.
— from Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4 by Samuel Richardson
My uncle—" "Your uncle was an uncommonly shrewd man," Chalmers interrupted.
— from The Great Prince Shan by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
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