Nahúlug sa pangpang, Fell off the cliff.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

This hurry, I say, continued some weeks, that is to say, all the month of May and June, and the more because it was rumoured that an order of the Government was to be issued out to place turnpikes and barriers on the road to prevent people travelling, and that the towns on the road would not suffer people from London to pass for fear of bringing the infection along with them, though neither of these rumours had any foundation but in the imagination, especially at-first.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

He was not sufficiently pretty for them not to cover his face with a thick veil.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

If turf which has long been mown, and the case would be the same with turf closely browsed by quadrupeds, be let to grow, the more vigorous plants gradually kill the less vigorous, though fully grown plants; thus out of twenty species grown on a little plot of mown turf (three feet by four) nine species perished, from the other species being allowed to grow up freely.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

I am angry at the custom of forbidding children to call their father by the name of father, and to enjoin them another, as more full of respect and reverence, as if nature had not sufficiently provided for our authority.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Nonnulli (saith Peter Forestus) ob longas inedias, studia et meditationes coelestes, de rebus sacris et religione semper agitant , by fasting overmuch, and divine meditations, are overcome.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The sick man said nothing, so Padre Florentino, deeply thoughtful, murmured: “Where are the youth who will consecrate their golden hours, their illusions, and their enthusiasm to the welfare of their native land?
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

Chickadee was no such precious fool as that.
— from The Lay of the Land by Dallas Lore Sharp

He ate heartily of our hashes, and of every thing else that was put before him, using a knife, fork, and spoon, which he now saw, probably, for the first time in his life, not only without awkwardness, but to such good purpose, that he declined exchanging them for Chinese chopsticks, which were provided for him.
— from Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island by Basil Hall

Her attentions became so open that the man felt the community to be no safe place for him, so he left it.
— from Whirligigs by O. Henry

In the brief interval of two years--the average duration of the village pastorate--it does not seem practicable for the minister to go about a work which will require a much longer time to produce those "satisfactory results" for which churches and missionary boards clamor.
— from The Minister and the Boy: A Handbook for Churchmen Engaged in Boys' Work by Allan Hoben

And this is especially true of a question which, however, has an important bearing on the matter before us—the question, viz., whether or not some particular faculty, either of soul or spirit, is to be regarded as an internal sense, a moral instinct, or an immediate perception and intuition of the highest and best.
— from The philosophy of life, and philosophy of language, in a course of lectures by Friedrich von Schlegel

Are we blasphemously, even impiously, to pretend that God has not sufficiently provided for the punishment of the breaches of his wise ordinances, that we must come forward to second them by arbitrary and heartless rules of our own?
— from The Headsman; Or, The Abbaye des Vignerons by James Fenimore Cooper

From all the tidings I could learn, I gathered that old Henneleinlein, whose gall had been raised against me by the Court Fool, had no sooner parted from us at Master Pernhart's door than she had hastened to the school of arms to make known to Ursula that my brother had plighted his troth anew to his cast-off sweetheart.
— from Margery (Gred): A Tale Of Old Nuremberg — Volume 05 by Georg Ebers

Ney was then told that the Emperor was going to Brye; that it did not seem possible for the English to do anything against him, Ney, but that if they should undertake anything, the Emperor would march directly upon them.
— from The Campaign of Waterloo: A Military History Third Edition by John Codman Ropes