King Richard died upon the battlefield, in such a way as properly became a lion-hearted king, as you yourself, no doubt, know; so, after a time, the Earl of Huntingdon—or Robin Hood, as we still call him as of old— finding nothing for his doing abroad, came back to merry England again.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
Bahwa tanah itu rata yang baik-nya di-perbuat rumah atau kampo[ng] atau dusun atau negri ada-nya, dan lagi jika handak berbuat negri dan kampong dan dusun atau rumah atau mengkalei barang suatu-nya pertama-tama tĕrangi dahulu tanah itu lebar-nya sa-dĕpa bujor-nya
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat
Kun wà ka mahimuut sa ímung mga grádu, ngánung dì ka man mukumplin?
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
Unsa pay tinggan nákù nga dì ka man mamínaw?
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
It is, of course, far from infallible; it cannot dominate circumstances, and has no discursive knowledge; but it is presumably true, and what it foreknows is always essentially possible.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana
We have reflected till ashamed we’ve grown; The common folk can thus conceive alone, And in conception no disturbance know, Their wisdom ripen’d has long while ago: A miracle it is, they Satan honour show.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway
Ang kalángan nákù dílì kabayran ug sápì, Money cannot make up for the delay I suffered.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
A noted desperado killed Mr. B., a good citizen, in the most wanton and cold-blooded way.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain
Mixing this cold, and pensively consuming it, he broke at intervals into such soliloquies as that he never did know such a move, that he never had been so gravelled, and that what a game was this to try the sort of stuff a man's opinion of himself was made of!
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
Wà pa kami magkasinátì kaáyu mau nga dapítun ku siya karun, We are not acquainted with each other so I am going to invite her now.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
Mwai KIBAKI, running as the candidate of the multiethnic, united opposition group, the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC), defeated KANU candidate Uhuru KENYATTA and assumed the presidency following a campaign centered on an anticorruption platform.
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
They seriously annoyed the forces of Knêmus, however, by distant slinging, in which the Akarnanians were [p. 195] preëminently skilful; nor did Knêmus choose to persist in his attack under such discouraging circumstances.
— from History of Greece, Volume 06 (of 12) by George Grote
When I was in Catholic countries, I never declined kneeling in their churches at the elevation, nor elsewhere, when the Host went by.
— from Letters to His Son, 1749 On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman by Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of
69 n. ; deified kings of, their souls deposited during life in portrait statues, 157 Egyptian, ancient, story of the external soul, ii.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 11 of 12) by James George Frazer
Nancy, do keep still and give some one else a chance to talk," said her mother.
— from Billy Whiskers: The Autobiography of a Goat by Frances Trego Montgomery
With the morning arrived nine or ten more, including the newly-appointed Veldtcornet , by name De Koker, who had been lately convicted of sheep-stealing.
— from South African Memories Social, Warlike & Sporting from Diaries Written at the Time by Wilson, Sarah Isabella Augusta, Lady
They were left a good deal to entertain each other, as Annie had chosen to unchain a large Newfoundland dog kept at the farm, and gone off in company with it for a gambol in the meadows.
— from The Younger Sister: A Novel, Volumes 1-3 by Mrs. (Catherine-Anne Austen) Hubback
He recommends himself to another by affronting him, and if that will not do, knocks him down to convince him of his sincerity.
— from The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 01 (of 12) by William Hazlitt
I never did know what happened to Tom’s killers.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 by United States. Work Projects Administration
The slipper being nearly dry, Kondjé-Gul put it on her little arched foot, with its famous light green silk stocking, and we recommenced our course through the park.
— from French and Oriental Love in a Harem by Mario Uchard
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