Namaybay ug lawig ang bapur, The boat sailed close to the shore.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Milásik (nalásik) ug layù ang búla nga íyang gipatíran, He kicked the ball and it went far.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

At the north end of Ave Mary lane is one great house, built of stone and timber, of old time pertaining to John Duke of Britaine, Earl of Richmond, as appeareth by the records of Edward II., since that, it is called Pembrook’s inn, near unto Ludgate, as belonging to the earls of Pembrook, in the times of Richard II., the 18th year, and of Henry VI., the 14th year.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

There he hangs nailed up like a bat; dead, sirs; with the wind of where he was born blowing his hair.
— from The Last Miracle by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel

Not that I put much store in such cures, but there's no use letting anything by.
— from The Wind Bloweth by Donn Byrne

"No use letting a brakeman see you if you can help it," he explained.
— from Through the Air to the North Pole Or, The Wonderful Cruise of the Electric Monarch by Roy Rockwood

If only "The White Lady" would appear in the daytime, I thought, I should have no difficulty in satisfying this curiosity, but unfortunately she did not appear till night—in fact, not until long after boys of my age had been ruthlessly ordered off to bed.
— from Scottish Ghost Stories by Elliott O'Donnell

What she saw there was the reflection of a flushed, excited face with keen, young eyes that were just now unusually large and bright.
— from The Governess by Julie M. Lippmann

And perhaps I should confess that my own taste in landladies, though I hope it is not undiscriminating, leans a bit toward the popular taste, the relish of the Rabelaisian.
— from Turns about Town by Robert Cortes Holliday