masticatory, used all over the extreme Orient, is composed of the leaves of this plant, a little slaked oyster-shell lime and a rounded slice of the bonga or areca nut; the Filipinos call this combination bayo , though the name is not of native origin; the Tagalos call it hitsú .
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

15 Entretanto decía Parrón a los suyos, señalando al segador: —Ahora podéis robarlo.—Sois unos imbéciles..., ¡unos canallas!
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

Next time you write about a hero put a little spice of human nature in him.”
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

JOHN U. WOLFF Cornell University, Southeast Asia Program and Linguistic Society of the Philippines 1972 [ ii ] [ Contents ]
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Do you know a maxim of Phocylides—that ‘when a man begins to be rich’ (or, perhaps, a little sooner) ‘he should practise virtue’?
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Meanwhile the farmers and country swains, that were watching their walnuts near to that place, came running with their great poles and long staves, and laid such load on these cake-bakers, as if they had been to thresh upon green rye.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

quaedam Obterit, et pulchros fasces, saevasque secures Proculcare, ac ludibrio sibi habere videtur.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

I suspect,” says Mr. Franklin, pulling a little sealed paper parcel out of his pocket, “that ‘It’ means this .
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

When a poor man dies without confessing or without [having received] the body of God, a place in the churchyard is obtained for him by his advocate, and they lay him in the churchyard, and place a large stone on the grave, and write on it the name of God and the name of the dead man who lies there, and this they do for a sign that he is dead.
— from The Bondage and Travels of Johann Schiltberger, a Native of Bavaria, in Europe, Asia, and Africa, 1396-1427 by Johannes Schiltberger

Under this thoroughly abbatial robe, signed with a cross and the ecclesiastic initials 'D.O.M.', pressed in between its parchments and ligatures, slept an exquisitely fine saffron-colored liquid.
— from Against the Grain by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

There is something I want to talk about, and I want to do it without appearing to be teaching a lesson or drawing a moral or preaching a lay sermon.
— from In Pastures Green by Peter McArthur

At a future time it will be my duty to report on the turnips, mangel-wurzel, ploughs, and live stock; and for the present I will only say that I regard it as a fortunate circumstance for the neighbouring community that this patrimony should have fallen to my spirited and enlightened host.
— from The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by John Forster

In their own province it has produced a long series of murders and robberies.
— from The Political Future of India by Lala Lajpat Rai

So says Eyvind Skaldaspiller:— "The raiser of the storm of shields, The conqueror in battle fields,— Hakon the brave, the warrior's friend, Who scatters gold with liberal hand, Heard Skreyja's taunt, and saw him rush, Amidst the sharp spears' thickest push, And loudly shouted in reply— 'If thou wilt for the victory try, The Norseman's king thou soon shall find!
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Judith sat down at the great oak table, looked at the engraved ornamentation on the watch, pressed a little spring, and, when the oval sides of the case flew open, gazed into the ancient, lifeless works.
— from The World's Illusion, Volume 2 (of 2): Ruth by Jakob Wassermann

The tender pathos with which he said, "Oh! pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth," [29] was beyond all praise, and Lady Salusbury liked it.
— from The Intimate Letters of Hester Piozzi and Penelope Pennington, 1788-1821 by Penelope Pennington