These new experiments are liable to a discussion of the same kind; so that the utmost constancy is requird to make us persevere in our enquiry, and the utmost sagacity to choose the right way among so many that present themselves.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Kim's Game Place about twenty or thirty small articles on a tray, or on the table or floor, such as two or three different kinds of buttons, pencils, corks, rags, nuts, stones, knives, string, photos--anything you can find--and cover them over with a cloth or coat.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

Miugtad (naugtad) ang písì sa kakusug sa pagbira, The rope snapped when it was pulled strongly.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Sir knight, said Sir Marhaus, I have well felt that ye are a passing good knight and a marvellous man of might as ever I felt any, while it lasteth, and our quarrels are not great, and therefore it were pity to do you hurt, for I feel ye are passing feeble.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

↑ 93 Hunting dogs have special names used for harking them on, e.g. Sukum, Sugara, Tampoi, Sujugara, Lansat, Si Indra, Si Kumbang, Sa’ Untara. ↑
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Cussen , v. to kiss, S, MD; kussen , S; kesse , S, C2; custe , pt. s. , S; keste , C2; kiste , S, C2; kest , S2; cusseden , pl. , S2.—AS.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

“No, Sir Knight,” said the Templar, haughtily.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

The soldier stepped back, surprised, kept silent for awhile, and, saying ominously, in a low voice: "Very well, then!"
— from Twenty-six and One, and Other Stories by Maksim Gorky

To an Englishman who visited him not long before his death, Mr. Whittier expressed his surprise that his guest should know so much of his poetry by heart.
— from John Greenleaf Whittier: His Life, Genius, and Writings by William Sloane Kennedy

Ang ímung gibúhat sukwahì kaáyu sa maáyung pamatásan, What you did is very much against good manners.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

"One of my friends," he continues, "when rather new to Kaffirland, happened to look into a hut and there saw a stalwart Kaffir sitting and smoking his pipe, while the women were hard at work in the sun, building huts, carrying timber, and performing all kinds of severe labor.
— from Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry T. Finck

So that I should scarce know she.
— from Six Plays by Darwin, Florence Henrietta Fisher, Lady

So far as she knew she had no relations in the world but Barthorpe Herapath—and there was something—something shadowy and undefinable—about Barthorpe which she neither liked nor trusted.
— from The Herapath Property by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher

There was always something kinda spooky about that knock, and being in a cave I always felt a little queer until I heard the old man's voice answer us.
— from Shenanigans at Sugar Creek by Paul Hutchens