But all men of worship said it was merry to be under such a chieftain that would put his person in adventure as other poor knights did.”
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

Ambi, ug walà pa ka dinhi, dì tà ka hikit-an, All right, if you were not here, nobody could have seen you, right?
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

23.—Few people know death, we only endure it, usually from determination, and even from stupidity and custom; and most men only die because they know not how to prevent dying.
— from Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims by François duc de La Rochefoucauld

The capitulation of Trebizond was faithfully performed: 891 and the emperor, with his family, was transported to a castle in Romania; but on a slight suspicion of corresponding with the Persian king, David, and the whole Comnenian race, were sacrificed to the jealousy or avarice of the conqueror.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

|| 65 to kenoumenon akolouthia, dia te tous epi tais ischouriais apothnêskontas apolôlekuia tên pithanotêta kai dia tên tôn nephrôn thesin ouden hêtton, ei men gar hapan ep' autous ephereto to haima, deontôs an tis hapan ephasken auto kathairesthai.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

[xxi] Charm to cast out Evil Influence Daun pekak, daun pegaga Katiga dengan mali-mali Aku pinta’ mana yang ada, Membuang sial dengan pemali.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Ayúha pagpátag kay kuntud pa kanang dapíta dihà, Level that part carefully.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

La kamelo iris trans la straton ĝis la pordo, kaj diris al la arabo, "Frato, mi ne estas varma, mi volas meti nur la nazon en vian varman domon."
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

helkontes oun ekeinoi dia tou keramiou to hygron eis hautous onkon men kai baros prosktôntai, katadêloi d' ou pany gignontai tois horôsin, ei mê tis propepysmenos êdê periergoteron episkopoito.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

(so the peasant called the house porter, in a tone of contempt), “you may be sure he’ll make it pay, Konstantin Dmitrievitch!
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

“Anyway, the ‘poor knight’ did not care what his lady was, or what she did.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He even visited the United States, for a while, teaching school at Bordentown, New Jersey, and sponging for loans and dinners from the Jumels and other people kindly disposed to the Bonaparte cause.
— from Superwomen by Albert Payson Terhune

I, the two Skorashevskis, Pan Tsisvitski, and Pan Klodzinski did what we could to rouse a spirit of resistance among the nobles.
— from The Deluge: An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. Vol. 1 (of 2) by Henryk Sienkiewicz

At Paris, Prince Kourakin, discontented and uneasy, had asked for his passports, thus anticipating the official rupture.
— from World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France by François Guizot

"I—I think your dog would be all right if you let him stay down-stairs under the stand," ventured President Kitchen, diplomatically.
— from The Skipper and the Skipped: Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul by Holman Day