Mikagat ang isdà sa paun, The fish grabbed at the bait.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

“You may say what you like, but you must pay the fine.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

On to the grove, with Lakshmaṇ near, The prince his way pursued To free those pleasant shades from fear And slay the giant brood.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Previous truth; fresh facts:—and our mind finds a new truth.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

How I could not have so much as got any food, except fish and turtles; and that, as it was long before I found any of them, I must have perished first; that I should have lived, if I had not perished, like a mere savage; that if I had killed a goat or a fowl, by any contrivance, I had no way to flay or open it, or part the flesh from the skin and the bowels, or to cut it up; but must gnaw it with my teeth, and pull it with my claws, like a beast.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

If you are young they pay no attention, and if you are older—most young people think an angry older person the funniest sight on earth!
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

It may be that the other muscles of the body have also a share in this but that we fail to perceive the fact.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

The officials, of course, promised to find the thieves, but we never heard anything more of them or of our property.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

At that meeting Morse proposed the formation of a new society of artists, and at a meeting held at the New York Historical Society's rooms the "New York Drawing Association" was organized, with Morse as its president.
— from Inventors by Philip Gengembre Hubert

Crabbe possesses the faculty, but not in any eminent degree; his hand is a little heavy, and one must remember that Mr. Tovell and his like were of the race who require to have a joke driven into their heads with a sledge-hammer.
— from Hours in a Library, Volume 2 New Edition, with Additions by Leslie Stephen

If that were a cloak for her pride, the fabric of it was terribly threadbare.
— from Tales of two people by Anthony Hope

I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints.
— from The Bible, King James version, Book 19: Psalms by Anonymous

He spoke to Théophraste, something they never knew, for the howling prevented them from hearing anything.
— from The Double Life by Gaston Leroux

The settlers, with their missionary turn of mind, were pleased to find the Indians of southern Arizona friendly and even inclined to be helpful.
— from Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert by James H. McClintock

"I wonder if he has forgotten that to-day is the tournament, and that he promised to fetch me."
— from The Native Born; or, the Rajah's People by I. A. R. (Ida Alexa Ross) Wylie

The distinct—photographically and sharply definite—image of every line 139 of every letter or picture is formed in the mind, and then out of the air is drawn the pigment to fall within the limits laid down by the brain, “the exhaustless generator of force and form”.
— from The Ocean of Theosophy by William Quan Judge

This unhappy youth, who, while he was at the university, discovered the finest fancy and the soundest understanding, either from a malignant and inveterate species of scrofula, with which he had been periodically tortured from his earliest infancy, or from too close an application to study, fell very early in life into a state of bodily infirmity and mental langor, which terminated in the month of December, 1777, in a total derangement of his faculties; and he has now continued, in spite of every endeavor to restore him, a perfect idiot for more than twenty years.
— from Solitude With the Life of the Author. In Two Parts by Johann Georg Zimmermann

Perhaps there was something of a similar wonder mingled with the burst of genuine admiration which went up first from Paris, then from France, and finally from Europe and America, when that magnificent democratic manifesto came to be read.
— from Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy