I'm only a wretched Philistine, and I've no doubt Leloir has perhaps more knowledge of painting even than Machard.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

Barlow gaped as Rogge-Smith took him by the elbow and his other boys appeared: Swenson-Swenson, the engineer; Tsutsugimushi-Duncan, his propellants man; Kalb-French, advertising.
— from The Marching Morons by C. M. (Cyril M.) Kornbluth

V. publish; make public, make known &c (information) 527; speak of, talk of; broach, utter; put forward; circulate, propagate, promulgate; spread, spread abroad; rumor, diffuse, disseminate, evulugate; put forth, give forth, send forth; emit, edit, get out; issue; bring before the public, lay before the public, drag before the public; give out, give to the world; put about, bandy about, hawk about, buzz about, whisper about, bruit about, blaze about; drag into the open day; voice.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

“The friendship of the poor constitutes us the friends of kings,” says St. Bernard; “but the love of poverty makes kings of us.”
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

General Sherman commenced at once his preparations for his proposed movement, keeping his army in position in the meantime to watch Hood.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Haste, to his father let the tale be told: Let his high roofs resound with frantic woe, Such as the house of Promachus must know; Let doleful tidings greet his mother's ear, Such as to Promachus' sad spouse we bear, When we victorious shall to Greece return, And the pale matron in our triumphs mourn.
— from The Iliad by Homer

An Indian seldom sleeps in war, and plunder may keep a Huron here after his tribe has departed.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

tua pran muda ka-samua sakali dengan panjak pengantin dan nenek jangan-lah bri berosak binasa dan nenek jangan-lah berlak pajan ’nak minta’ jangan-lah bri rosak binasa chachat chĕdra sakalian pa’yong ma’yong.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Bintang mara chuacha limpat; Ka-dua limpat di langit; Ka-tiga limpat di bumi; Ka-ampat ayer sambayang; Ka-lima pintu mazahap; Ka-anam pintu rezuki; Ka-tujoh pintu mahaligei; Ka-dilapan pintu shurga; Ka-sambilan anak di-kandong ibu; Ka-sapuloh Mahomed jadi.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Your power may kill me.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVII, No. 3, September 1850 by Various

2. Proper Directions for Drawing, Pressing, Making, Keeping, Fining, and Curing all Defects in the Wine.
— from The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume IV Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by Pöllnitz, Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von

But there is so much to enquire of about the Devil , before we can bring his story down to our modern times, that we must for the present let them drop, and look a little back to the remoter parts of this history; drawing his picture that people may know him when they meet him, and see who and what he is, and what he has been doing ever since he got leave to act in the high station he now appears in.
— from The History of the Devil, As Well Ancient as Modern: In Two Parts by Daniel Defoe

He was not in any sense a professional humorist, but I have never in all my intercourse with public men, known one who was so apt in humorous illustration us Mr. Lincoln, and I have known him many times to silence controversy by a humorous story with pointed application to the issue.
— from Lincoln's Yarns and Stories A Complete Collection of the Funny and Witty Anecdotes That Made Lincoln Famous as America's Greatest Story Teller by Alexander K. (Alexander Kelly) McClure

"He insulted my people, my kith and kin.
— from Cadet Days: A Story of West Point by Charles King

In pouncing upon their self-evident prey, Mr. Kelley was a shade the quicker.
— from Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million by O. Henry

Ngánung mangulitáwu pa man ka nga istádu na man ka?
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

On the banks of the Danube, between the east and the west, the downfall of Prussian power and the prestige of Monarchy was felt perhaps more keenly than elsewhere.
— from My Own Affairs by Princess of Belgium Louise

One day, as the pakeha -Maori (Kimble Bent) and his Maori companions were sitting smoking in their lonely little bush-village at Rukumoana, far up the Patea River, they heard a loud hail across the river.
— from The adventures of Kimble Bent: A story of wild life in the New Zealand bush by James Cowan

Primitive man knew nothing about harmful plants, and only by long experience did he learn to avoid such as worked him woe.
— from The World's Progress, Vol. 01 (of 10) With Illustrative texts from Masterpieces of Egyptian, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Modern European and American Literature by Delphian Society