Ang mga gradwádu karun walay kadásig sa pagtuun kun sa pagtukì sa kinaadman, The recent graduates have no enthusiasm for study that is to say, to delve into knowledge.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Paytir kaáyung sinadúra.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

And as the idea came upon me of his possibly turning out a long-lived man, and keep occupying my chambers, and denying my authority; and perplexing my visitors; and scandalizing my professional reputation; and casting a general gloom over the premises; keeping soul and body together to the last upon his savings (for doubtless he spent but half a dime a day), and in the end perhaps outlive me, and claim possession of my office by right of his perpetual occupancy: as all these dark anticipations crowded upon me more and more, and my friends continually intruded their relentless remarks upon the apparition in my room; a great change was wrought in me.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

Hilaw ang íyang pahiyum kay sad-an nákù siya, She gave me a forced smile because she had a guilty conscience for what she did to me.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

In examoning our canoe found that by putting Knees & Strong peces pined to her Sides and bottom &c.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Nagkalagkag pa ku sa harína nga ákung ayágun, I’m breaking up the lumps in the flour I’m going to sift.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

If, however, it should be absolutely insisted upon that in some way or other a positive knowledge should be attained of that which philosophy can only express negatively as the denial of the will, there would be nothing for it but to refer to that state which all those who have attained to complete denial of the will have experienced, and which has been variously denoted by the names ecstasy, rapture, illumination, union with God, and so forth; a state, however, which cannot properly be called knowledge, because it has not the form of subject and object, and is, moreover, only attainable in one's own experience and cannot be further communicated.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

“If I had influence I would advise him to reconcile you to Prince Kaid,” she said quietly, then turned to David with an appeal in her eyes.
— from The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Complete by Gilbert Parker

Patyun ku siya, I’ll kill him.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

But there happened toward the upper end of this period an event in the history of the plant kingdom so dramatic, of such far-reaching results, that its appearance might be likened to the overthrow of the Czar in Russian history or to the downfall of the Kaiser in Germany.
— from Botany: The Science of Plant Life by Norman Taylor

For herself— scusi —she thought the Signora Machonochie was a good soul (though greedy), for she was always making mittens for the troops on the snow of the frontier against the winter-time, and went about the roads perpetually knitting, so that one day she, not looking where she was going, charged into Ludovico's manure cart, and was much soiled.
— from Up and Down by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

Hot-rolled sheet steel Scythe steel Lathe spindle steel Shear knife steel Lawn mower knife steel Silico-manganese steel Machine knife steel Spindle steel Magnet steel Spring steel Mining drill steel Tool holder steel Nail die shapes Vanadium tool steel Nickel-chrome steel Vanadium-chrome steel Paper knife steel Wortle steel Passing to the tonnage specifications, the following table from Tiemann's excellent pocket book on "Iron and Steel," will give an approximate idea of the ordinary designations now in use: Grades Approximate carbon range Common uses Extra soft (dead soft) 0.08-0.18 Pipe, chain and other welding purposes; case-hardening purposes; rivets; pressing and stamping purposes.
— from The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel by K. A. (Kristian A.) Juthe

faces,—that no bee might greet Or butterfly that, weighed with pollen, passed;— Keeping Sultana charms for thee, at last, Their lord, who comest to salute each sweet.
— from The Younger American Poets by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

Von Schwanthal, when he first heard of it, was inconsolable, begged the young man's pardon a thousand times, offered to keep watch himself all night, then abused the doctor and his base accomplices again, and at last, proposed to permit their prisoner, who probably knew some little of surgery, at all events, to use his hands so far as to dress the wounded limb—the upper part of the right arm.
— from The wanderings and fortunes of some German emigrants by Friedrich Gerstäcker

Now as mother dost thou fare, Though of maids the purest known.' 'Son, Thou help at every need All those who before me plead— Maid, wife—woman, everyone.' 'Mother, here I cannot dwell.
— from The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Volume 2 of 2) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning