Mau pay pubri ku, inudnud pa giyud tag palukat ug lisinsya, Poor as I am, I still have to pay for a license.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Even if the Americans shelled the openings of their cave mouths or ran armored bulldozers over the holes, burying Japanese alive, there was the chance that the Japanese would run through long underground passages and pop up later, possibly at night, to cause more damage before they were killed.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

―The Gambetta government, the national vindication of the 4th September, 1870, resigned its power in February, 1871, into the hands of the National Assembly elected by the whole nation, which, although through clerical influence upon the electors predominantly monarchical and clerical, appointed the old Voltairean Thiers (died, 1877), formerly ministerial president under Louis Philippe, as alone qualified for the difficult post of president of the republic.
— from Church History, Volume 3 (of 3) by J. H. (Johann Heinrich) Kurtz

His efforts were rewarded with partial success, as he picked up Lieutenant Parker and myself and one of the seamen.
— from The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by J. F. (Joseph Florimond) Loubat

A few, having acquired a taste for study, remained long enough to fit themselves to become teachers of common schools, or to enter one of the professions, which at that time did not place so much importance as at present upon lengthy preparation and a degree.
— from Confessions of Boyhood by John Albee

Mr. Hiorth had been in Paris under Louis Philippe, and Delphin had two years previously made a summer tour through Europe, while the schoolmaster had been at the University of Copenhagen.
— from Garman and Worse: A Norwegian Novel by Alexander Lange Kielland

Ellen was perfection, was middle-aged and settled, never went out in the evenings, kept her kitchen spotlessly clean, trained the rattle-headed second girls who came and went, 200 to be good waitresses and made pastry that moved Paul, usually little preoccupied about his food provided there was plenty of meat, to lyric raptures.
— from The Squirrel-Cage by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

The first detachment [182] which Colonel Kelly himself accompanied was composed of 200 men of the 32nd Pioneers under Captain Borrodaile, with Lieutenants Bethune (afterwards killed in Tibet) and Cobbe, and Surgeon-Captain Browning-Smith; and the second detachment of 200 Pioneers under Lieutenants Petersen and Cooke.
— from The Relief of Chitral by Younghusband, Francis Edward, Sir