Way báli nákù ug mabuak, I don’t care if it breaks.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Yet do I not use my horse for my mistress, or any such proverb so little kin to the purpose.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

“‘And whose fault is it,’ she answered, ‘that you have never understood me until now?
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

(*) The celebrated charge at night upon Marmont's Corps.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

Why, said I, (struggling from him, and in a great passion,) to be sure you are Lucifer himself, in the shape of my master, or you could not use me thus.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

The lady, having solaced herself with her lover till near upon midnight, said to him, 'How deemest thou, my soul, of our scholar?
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

First I taught them that they could not unseat me, and even rapped them sharply between the ears to impress upon them my authority and mastery.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The change on Mrs. Elton's side soon afterwards appeared, and she was left in peace—neither forced to be the very particular friend of Mrs. Elton, nor, under Mrs. Elton's guidance, the very active patroness of Jane Fairfax, and only sharing with others in a general way, in knowing what was felt, what was meditated, what was done.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

‘Now, upon my life,’ said the friend, affecting to speak in a whisper, ‘it’s an uncommonly bold and game thing in Hawk to show himself so soon.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

I have her now upon my own terms.
— from Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia by William Gilmore Simms

Immense flights of birds not usually migratory, partridges, pheasants, grouse, plover, wild-doves and water-fowl went South with the animals.
— from That Which Hath Wings: A Novel of the Day by Richard Dehan

But you never understood my son—you could not; and therefore—if you will be so good—I should prefer that you should not speak to me of him again; it is much the easiest way for us both.
— from For the Major: A Novelette by Constance Fenimore Woolson

It is a pretty spot, with its hunchbacked lock-bridge, and the not unhandsome modern foot-and tow-bridge that spans the Thames, helping to compose a picture.
— from Thames Valley Villages, Volume 1 (of 2) by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

But he did not understand music like that; what was mathematical in it he saw as pattern, but the emotion came to him in an almost equally abstract way, as musical emotion, beginning and ending in the music itself, and not needing to have any of one's own feelings put into it.
— from Spiritual Adventures by Arthur Symons

They did not understand my case.
— from The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand by Ray Vaughn Pierce

I was in the lead as we drove into the barricade to unsaddle, and as I passed through the entrance Is-spai-u gave a sudden turning leap that nearly unseated me, and then stood staring and snorting at a huge grizzly that lay at one side of the path.
— from The War-Trail Fort: Further Adventures of Thomas Fox and Pitamakan by James Willard Schultz

One long rainy day had somewhat disgusted us with the old hemlock-covered camp in the glade of the yellow birch, and we were reasonably and not unreasonably morbid after our disappointment with Katahdin.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

The Mind unbounded To understand that Mind is infinite, not bounded by corporeality, not dependent upon the ear and eye for 84:21 sound or sight nor upon muscles and bones for locomotion, is a step towards the Mind- science by which we discern man's nature and existence.
— from Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy