Balawan nímu ang tibuuk kílid, Caulk the seams and put resin all over the sides.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

‘I have noticed in him, anyway,’ she said, ‘a perpetual restlessness and a tendency to peculiar impulses.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[Beatrix.] AUVERGNAT (L'), one of the assumed names of the rogue Selerier, alias Pere Ralleau, alias Rouleur, alias Fil-de-soie.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

The father was present for a while; and though such a "parental relation" as existed between him and my children takes slight hold on the hearts or consciences of slaveholders, it must be that he experienced some moments of pure joy in witnessing the happiness he had imparted.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

These struggles, I might add, in which a submerged people seek to rise and make for themselves a place in a world occupied by superior and privileged races, are not less vital or less important because they are bloodless.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

He does it by emphasising what seems to us characteristic, e.g., of a rose arbor, in such a way that at the distance and under the conditions of illumination of the theatre we imagine we really see a pretty rose arbor.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Slasher , a powerful roysterer, a game and clever pugilist.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

The third son of the Revolutionary soldier and pioneer remained at the old farm and lived on alone there after his own sons had left home, to enter other and less certain avocations than farming.
— from When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine by C. A. (Charles Asbury) Stephens

But as soon as possible, rest assured.”
— from The Lady and the Pirate Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive by Emerson Hough

Apart from this point of similarity in mechanism, the Australian and Canadian subsidies to the States and Provinces respectively are of no value as models for a Home Rule Bill.
— from The Framework of Home Rule by Erskine Childers

This lady adhered faithfully to Guido's second manner, to which she added powerful relief and effect.
— from The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 5 (of 6) From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Luigi Lanzi

When Algernon's guards returned, they found him in a swooning state, as previously recorded; and fearful that his life might be lost, and another day's sport thus spoiled, they immediately called in their great medicine man, who at once set about bandaging his wound, and applying to it such healing remedies as were known by him to be speedily efficacious, and for which the Indians are proverbially remarkable.
— from Ella Barnwell A Historical Romance of Border Life by Emerson Bennett

When this line of commerce requires to be diverted north, through the straits of St. Mary's into Lake Superior, a period rapidly approaching, a short canal of three-fourths of a mile will be required at the Sault Ste-Marie, and some excavation made, so as to permit vessels of heavy tonnage to cross the bar in Lake George of those straits.
— from The American Indians Their History, Condition and Prospects, from Original Notes and Manuscripts by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

my bob cuffins,” cried the gypsy guide, “I have brought you a gentry cove, to whom you will show all proper respect: and hark ye, my maunders, if ye dare beg, borrow, or steal a single croker,—ay, but a bawbee of him, I’ll—but ye know me.”
— from The Disowned — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Then people heard the stories and poetry read, and it made them wiser and better; for all that was written had a good and sensible meaning, and a great blessing was contained in the words on this paper.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen