with the Soplicas, my boy?” (So speaking he contorted his lips as though he were amazed at his own words.)
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

They scratch, cut, sting, make bad smells, secrete the most dreadful poisons (which Heaven only knows how they contrive to make), cover their precious seeds with spines like those of a hedgehog, frighten insects with delicate nervous systems by assuming portentous shapes, hide themselves, grow in inaccessible places, and tell lies so plausibly as to deceive even their subtlest foes.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

Muunay ku sa mga bátà sa syudad sa ílang pag-iskuyla, I will go live with the children in the city while they attend school there.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

It was also intended to institute a comparison between the map and such remains of ancient geography as can be extracted from the Puranas and other Hindu authorities; which, however, must be deferred to a future period, when the deficiency of the 3 present rapid and general sketch may be supplied, should the author be enabled to resume his labours.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

She must be seen, sir—seen—to be ever so faintly appreciated.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

I don't know what she meant, but she said she had made a mistake, and I must tell you so, and that you would understand it.
— from Gretchen: A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes

Many times since, upon a summer day, when the sun is about the hottest, I have remarked the same wind arising and uttering the same hollow, solemn, Memnonian, but saintly swell: it is in this world the one sole audible symbol of eternity.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various

Plates of any speed may be selected, so that attention may be focussed on latitude, color sensitiveness, and other tone rendering characteristics.
— from Airplane Photography by Herbert Eugene Ives

Thought, the object of its study, may be some special question, yet it does not follow this up in the concrete.
— from The Positive Outcome of Philosophy The Nature of Human Brain Work. Letters on Logic. by Joseph Dietzgen

“I’d be very glad indeed to stay, Mr. Beech,” she said, with winning frankness, “if I may.”
— from In the Sixties by Harold Frederic

"And your election?" said Mrs. Boyce, still studying him with hostile eyes, as he got up to take leave.
— from Marcella by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

“Sad sewers made bad samplers,” said Lord de Tabley in “The Soldier of Fortune,” but the wonder is that the little fingers of yesterday should have acquired skill not only in one sort of embroidery but in the varied stitches often seen in a single sampler remarkable for its perfect and exquisite handiwork.
— from The Pleasures of Collecting by Gardner C. Teall

Study may be supervised study, or unsupervised study.
— from How to Teach by Naomi Norsworthy