Siyay miúguy (nag-úguy) pagpakatúlug sa bátà, She rocked the baby in her arms to sleep.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Maglawanglawang ta sa dakung balay, We’ve got room to burn in that huge house.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

"The lamb isn't really the business I came about, Mrs. Hurst.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

God knows I had no part in it while they remained there, but it pained me to think of the dear old place as altogether abandoned; of the weeds growing tall in the garden, and the fallen leaves lying thick and wet upon the paths.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Under your door, and down your area, Slang handbills are dropped by some “pushing” tradesman; and for the thousandth time you are called upon to learn that an “alarming sacrifice” is taking place in the next street; that prices are “down again;” that, in consequence of some other tradesman not “driving a roaring trade,” being in fact, “sold up,” and for the time being a resident in “Burdon’s Hotel” (Whitecross-Street Prison), the “pushing” tradesman wishes to sell out at “awfully low prices,” to “the kind patrons, and numerous customers,” &c. &c., “that have on every occasion,” &c. &
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

By ten, I had reason to believe its density considerably increased.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Observing a bird in a cage hanging in one corner of the room, the boy inquired what it was.
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

[44] Bingham, with his customary ill-nature, remarks that Bonaparte, "in spite of the orders of the Directory, took upon himself to sign the armistice."
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

In fact, the canoe probably would not have been able to contain the articles possibly enclosed in the chest, which doubtless was heavy, since two empty barrels were required to buoy it up.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

It was the first form of a civilized nation, that of a city surrounded by enough farming territory to supply its citizens with food, each city ready to break into war with any other, and each race of people viewing all beyond its borders as strangers and barbarians, to be dealt with almost as if they were beasts of prey instead of men and brothers.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 10 (of 15), Greek by Charles Morris

I've not had leg over a decent mount since I've been here, and if I might ride this beggar, I'd be awfully obliged."
— from The Way of a Man by Emerson Hough

Again and again they tried to raise themselves, but in such close proximity one hindered the other.
— from 'Jena' or 'Sedan'? by Franz Adam Beyerlein

There is no reason to believe it other than accurate.
— from The Ethnology of the British Islands by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

"If you keep on the way you are heading, and can manage the Atlantic and Pacific on horseback," replied the boy, "it is 23,999 miles.
— from Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier by John Algernon Owens

The country round the bay is described as level and open, and of an agreeable aspect.
— from A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 Undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803, in His Majesty's ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland schooner by Matthew Flinders

The assumptions which he is justified in making, and the kind of operations which he has the right to perform, do not seem, as a rule, to be in doubt.
— from An Introduction to Philosophy by George Stuart Fullerton

xi, 10): "Things refuse to be ill governed; and multiplicity of authorities is a bad thing, therefore there should be one ruler."
— from Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

In examining of all opinions, the Master and others affirmed they knew the ship to be strong and firm under water, and for the buckling bending or bowing of the main beam, there was a great iron scrue the passengers brought out of Holland which would raise the beam into its place.
— from The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Volume 6 by Azel Ames