She was, in short, an utter failure, an ignorant, incompetent, pretentious, unwelcome, penniless, useless little snob; and though she did not admit these disqualifications (for nobody ever faces unpleasant truths of this kind until the possibility of a way out dawns on them)
— from Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

(Pleasing, unattractive, long, short, loud, faint, sung from the ground, from a perch, in the air, etc.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

Keep with those of thine own kind, and pick up little spiders and caterpillars from the trees, or the house, and then thou wilt live long in peace."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

Las damas, por su parte, utilizan los servicios de peinadoras que van a domicilio, o acuden en persona a establecimientos especiales originarios de París y llamados institutos de belleza.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

In passing, it may be remarked that his fellow tchinovniks were a peculiarly plain, unsightly lot, some of them having faces like badly baked bread, swollen cheeks, receding chins, and cracked and blistered upper lips.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Ayaw palabii ug larga sa tugut ang tabánug, Don’t pay out the string of your kite too much.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Patábang ug lúsad sa pyánu ngadtu sa sílung, Let some people help you bring the piano down.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

As he watched her, there rose quite unbidden before him a vision of Momaya, the skewer through the septum of her nose, her pendulous under lip sagging beneath the weight which dragged it down.
— from Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The best means discovered by the Gascon was to inclose his treasure, for the present, under locks so solid that no wrist could break them, and so complicated that no master-key could open them.
— from The Vicomte De Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas

Yumas: 'Doch ist ihnen das Tätowiren nicht fremd; dieses wird indessen mehr von den Frauen angewendet welche sich die Mundwinkel und das Kinn mit blauen Punkten und Linien schmücken.'
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 1, Wild Tribes The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 1 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

Cæsarism, soon passing into an unbridled despotism of the Eastern type, was the inevitable political result, and the empire, even while it embraced the world, became in reality a shell, kept from collapse only by the healthier life of the frontiers, where the land had been divided among military settlers or the primitive usages longer survived.
— from Progress and Poverty, Volumes I and II An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth by Henry George

The Dyak description of most diseases is pansa utai , literally “something passed him.”
— from Seventeen Years Among the Sea Dyaks of Borneo A Record of Intimate Association with the Natives of the Bornean Jungles by Edwin Herbert Gomes

He was a great churchgoer when he was ashore and always preachin’ brotherly love and kindness and pattin’ us little shavers on the head, and so on.
— from Cap'n Warren's Wards by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

Nos. 3 and 4 Platoons will proceed under Lieutenant Smith to the neighbourhood of Cross 47 Farm, where they will take up the best positions they can find with the object of protecting the crossing of the River Lea.
— from A General's Letters to His Son on Minor Tactics by Anonymous