Meanwhile, I’ll burn all his letters, papers, and books, so that they can’t find anything, just as Don Crisostomo did.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

Way sabud nga pagkasyát, A basketball shot that went in without touching the ring.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The worships of Osiris, Adonis, and Attis had their respective seats, as we have seen, in Egypt, Syria, and Phrygia; and in each of these countries certain harvest and vintage customs are known to have been observed, the resemblance of which to each other and to the national rites struck the ancients themselves, and, compared with the harvest customs of modern peasants and barbarians, seems to throw some light on the origin of the rites in question.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

So every thing stands still for money Some ends of my own in what advice I do give her Sorry thing to be a poor King Spares not to blame another to defend himself Sparrowgrass Speaks rarely, which pleases me mightily Spends his time here most, playing at bowles Sport to me to see him so earnest on so little occasion Street ordered to be continued, forty feet broad, from Paul’s Supper and to bed without one word one to another Suspect the badness of the peace we shall make Swear they will not go to be killed and have no pay Take pins out of her pocket to prick me if I should touch her The pleasure of my not committing these things to my memory
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

I resolved therefore to go from village to village, seeking out the rustic archon of the place, and by systematizing their exertions, and enlightening their views, encrease both their power and their use among their fellow-cottagers.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Suddenly there sounded from among the lilac bushes a dry cough, and just as Thenichka darted to the other end of the bench Paul Petrovitch appeared, bowed slightly to the pair, said with a sort of melancholy acidity in his tone: "It is you, then?" and turned on his heel and departed.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

The successive weft is passed over two and under two warp pieces again, but such that the second weft passes over one and under one of the warp pieces that the first weft had passed over, and over one and under one of the warp pieces that the first weft had passed under.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

It is permissible and better style to use in this case the imperfect subjunctive instead of the preterite sirvió .
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

X. Just as distempers and sickness are bred in the body from the corruption of the blood, and the too great abundance of phlegm and bile, so the mind is deprived of its health, and disordered with sickness, from a confusion of depraved opinions that are in opposition to one another.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

In the ancient societies, slavery in a great measure replaced pauperism, and, by securing the subsistence of a very large proportion of the poor, contracted the sphere of charity.
— from History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Parboil ¼ pound rice in water, drain in a colander and rinse with cold water; return it to the saucepan, add 1 pint milk, a little salt, 2 tablespoonfuls sugar, 1 tablespoonful butter, a little grated lemon peel and boil slowly till done; remove the rice from the fire; when cooled off add the yolks of 3 eggs and 1 tablespoonful finely chopped almonds; spread this rice onto a long dish and when cold divide it into equal parts with a spoon the size of an egg; form them into the shape of a pear and press a preserved cherry or a little marmalade in the center of each; roll them first into fine bread crumbs, then into the beaten white of egg; then roll again in the bread crumbs and fry them a light brown in boiling lard; put a small piece of cinnamon in the end of each piece, to form the stern, and serve hot with wine sauce.
— from Desserts and Salads by Gesine Lemcke

In all the forty-two countries through which I traveled during the twenty-one years of my missionary service, numberless instances came before me of the benefit which this orphan institution has been, in this respect, not only in making men of the world see the reality of the things of God, and by converting them, but especially by leading the children of God more abundantly to give themselves to prayer, and by strengthening their faith.
— from A Trip Abroad An Account of a Journey to the Earthly Canaan and the Land of the Ancient Pharaohs; To Which Are Appended a Brief Consideration of the Geography and History of Palestine, and a Chapter on Churches of Christ in Great Britain by Don Carlos Janes

The car still held its balance perfectly, and Brennan said that his act represented forty or fifty persons moving suddenly across a full-sized passenger coach.
— from The Modern Railroad by Edward Hungerford

Reproduction of an engraving in an old German Encyclopædia in the Harry Houdini Collection, which credits to the Chinese the trick of climbing into the air and having the body fall down piecemeal and being set together again.
— from The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin by Harry Houdini

Let us rise to the height of our duties and of our power, and be sure that whoever has Christ has enough for the world's hunger, and is bound to call men from 'that which is not bread,' and to feed them with Him who is.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Mark by Alexander Maclaren

69 Plutarch states that, as the city was filled with persons who assembled from all parts on account of the great security which prevailed in Attica and the country withal was poor and barren, Solon turned the attention of the citizens to manufactures.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

“A scientific kind of poop, a botanizing shaloot that was travelling around with a tin box on his back, collecting beetles and bird-skins.
— from In the Wrong Paradise, and Other Stories by Andrew Lang

There are five things to remember in drilling the connectors and posts: (a) Be sure that the hole is exactly over the center of the post.
— from The Automobile Storage Battery: Its Care And Repair by Otto A. Witte

The number of such classes shall not exceed four, and the powers of each class shall be defined by general laws, so that all municipal corporations of the same class shall possess the same powers, and be subject to the same restrictions.
— from The Legislative Manual, of the State of Colorado Comprising the History of Colorado, Annals of the Legislature, Manual of Customs, Precedents and Forms, Rules of Parliamentary Parliamentary Practice, and the Constitutions of the United States and the History of Colorado, Annals of the Legislature, Manual of Customs, Precedents and Forms, Rules of Parliamentary Practice, and the Constitutions of the United States and the State of Colorado. Also, Chronological Table of American History, Lists and Tables for Reference, Biographies, Etc. by Thomas B. Corbett