Some can read and write Malayālam, but they are very backward in English education.”
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

This day will dark Kaikeyí find Fresh triumph for her evil mind, When I, who with my Sítá came Return alone, without my dame.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Regardless of caution she began singing softly the then popular melody: “‘Will you come with me, my Phillis dear, To yon blue mountain free, Where the blossoms smell the sweetest, Come rove along with me.
— from A Daughter of the Union by Lucy Foster Madison

When she came ranging alongside, within megaphone distance, a thing—a midshipman, Blood said—speaking through a megaphone nearly as big as itself addressed the Penguin .
— from Sea Plunder by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

Will you come with me, my Phillis, dear, to yon blue mountain free, Where the blossoms smell the sweetest, come rove along with me.
— from Beadle's Dime Song Book No. 1 A Collection of New and Popular Comic and Sentimental Songs. by Various

Sonnenthal came round and wanted me to go on in short skirts, but I told him in so many words that I was going to do it my own way or not at all; and, knowing how he was situated, of course he had to give in.
— from Dry Fish and Wet: Tales from a Norwegian Seaport by Anthon Bernhard Elias Nilsen

She could remember a winter morning when from the window she had watched the Square under virgin snow in the lamplight, and the Square had been vast, and the first wayfarer, crossing it diagonally and leaving behind him the irregular impress of his feet, had appeared to travel for hours over an interminable white waste before vanishing past Holl’s shop in the direction of the Town Hall.
— from The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett

The published instructions of Lord Sussex were "to make such statutes (concerning religion) as were made in England, mutatis mutandis ."
— from A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Volume 1 by Thomas D'Arcy McGee

George Bucknall Shakespear, Colonel Royal Artillery, who married Henrietta Panet.
— from Shakespeare's Family by C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael) Stopes

"I mustn't let my scientific curiosity run away with me.
— from Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 by Various