Sa siyatsíyat hingígù siya, piru sa dúwà, sus lagyúa, In practice shooting he is a good shot, but when it comes to the actual game, his shots are way off the mark.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Stamens didynamous, straight, longer than the corolla.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

The second day, she lost it, and never even remembered she had had it, till some days afterwards.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

What kinds of scenes does Shelley like best to describe?
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

And some of these spaces differ so little from Euclidean space, where distances such as we can measure are concerned, that it is impossible to discover by observation whether our actual space is strictly Euclidean or of one of these other kinds.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

Un fanfaron croyant qu'il était au-dessous de lui de se déranger, se laissa accrocher, et son habit fut déchiré.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

A splendid double staircase leads to the ground floor as high as an ‘entresol’.
— from Serge Panine — Complete by Georges Ohnet

But in whatever she did she left the stamp of a talent like no other, and of a personality disdainful of literary environment.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg William Dean Howells Literature Essays by William Dean Howells

[Pg 53] All this time the little Queen-bee had sate alone by the grotto, endeavouring to comfort her sisters, whilst she herself wept bitter tears over Petrea, whom she never expected to see again: on that very account her joy was all the greater and louder, when she saw her carried in the arms of the Candidate; and no sooner did she learn from her mother how he had rescued her from the fangs of death, than she threw her arms round his neck in inexpressible gratitude.
— from The Home; Or, Life in Sweden by Fredrika Bremer

“Sit down,” said Lady Janet, smiling in spite of herself; “and don’t talk in that horrible way again.
— from The New Magdalen by Wilkie Collins

There must have been, said the ship's doctor, some lesion of the heart.
— from The Day of His Youth by Alice Brown

“Yes, mamma; we shall hear his step directly,” said Lucy.
— from The Star-Gazers by George Manville Fenn

The dusky hues of night, for slowly the scene darkens, seem lending a softness and calmness to the foliage.
— from Justice in the By-Ways, a Tale of Life by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams