Kandúsi ra kug sabaw, Please dip me some soup.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Interested in the history, as singular as extraordinary, that she had just narrated, and having seen nothing in it that did not bear the stamp of truth, I felt really disposed to make her happy but I could not believe that I had inspired her with a very deep passion during my short stay in Ancona, many circumstances of which might, on the contrary, have had an opposite effect upon her heart.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

“Yes, for two; and, this time, be present during my supper, so that I can tell you which dishes I find good or bad.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Une lettre que j'ai reçue par courriel à propos de mon site sur le Dictionnaire de l'Académie française.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

The Dauphins of Bavaria used to say, "My poor dear mamma" (so she used always to address me), "where do you pick up all the funny things you know?"
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

On a couch of painful anguish, Meek and patient, pale and wan, Hand clasped hand in solemn parting— Dying mother, stricken son.
— from Canadian Battlefields, and Other Poems by J. R. (John Richardson) Wilkinson

"Are you still in great pain, Dr. Mälzer?" she stammered forth.
— from The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann

ulder, and politely asked: "Monsieur, will you please tell me the title of this play, piece, drama, morceau, stueck, sonata, odour, picture, symphony, cooking-comedy, or whatever they call it?"
— from Unicorns by James Huneker

Government Dominican Republic Country name: Dominican Republic conventional short form: Government type: representative democracy Capital: Santo Domingo Administrative divisions: 29 provinces (provincias, singular - provincia) and 1 district* (distrito); Azua, Baoruco, Barahona, Dajabon, Distrito Nacional*, Duarte, Elias Pina, El Seibo, Espaillat, Hato Mayor, Independencia, La Altagracia, La Romana, La Vega, Maria Trinidad Sanchez, Monsenor Nouel, Monte Cristi, Monte Plata, Pedernales, Peravia, Puerto Plata, Salcedo, Samana, Sanchez Ramirez, San Cristobal, San Juan, San Pedro de Macoris, Santiago, Santiago Rodriguez, Valverde Independence: 27 February 1844 (from Haiti) National holiday: Independence Day, 27 February (1844) Constitution: 28 November 1966
— from The 2002 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

I think she saw me—that my quicker change of place detached my shape sufficiently to make it discernible.
— from The Flight of the Shadow by George MacDonald

“The poor dare man,” sez she; “didnt I alwus tell them yung snips of gurls at sewin circles that Mr. Gilley'd be welthy sum day, I guess they won't turn up their knoeses and call me a dride up old made, when Samanthy Longtung turns inter Samanthy Gilley.
— from The Bad Boy at Home, and His Experiences in Trying to Become an Editor 1885 by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor

Poor, dear Mother, she's so really humble minded, she wouldn't let herself realize how he loves her.
— from Out of the Ashes by Ethel Watts Mumford Grant