Sirbis ning awtúha pára sa mga bisíta, This car is for the special use of the visitors.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

súpi n a peso (slang).
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Belcolore rose, grumbling, and pulling the cloak out of the chest, gave it to the clerk, saying, 'Tell her reverence from me, Belcolore saith, she voweth to God you shall never again pound sauce in her mortar; you have done her no such fine honour of this bout.'
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Many other are the emoluments which arise from both these, but they are for the most part so obvious, that we shall not at present stay to enumerate them; especially since it occurs to us that the principal merit of both the prologue and the preface is that they be short.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

30 The languid soul, oppressed with its own weight, anxiously required some new and powerful sensation; and wa
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

If we are to speak of what is individually desirable, neither should the State be so small, nor a people so simple and upright, that the execution of the laws follows immediately from the public will, as it does in a good democracy.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

sī numquam avārē pretium statuī artī meae, exemplum statuite in mē , T. Hau.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

“Now God be thanked,” cried he; “but who is he that standeth yonder by himself, and seemeth not a prisoner?” “Sir,” said Sir Gawain, “he is a good man with his weapons, and hath matched me; but cometh hither to be made a Christian.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

$163.1 million (31 December 2007) Market value of publicly traded shares: $NA Agriculture - products: squash, coconuts, copra, bananas, vanilla beans, cocoa, coffee, ginger, black pepper; fish Industries: tourism, construction, fishing Industrial production growth rate: 1% (2003 est.) country comparison to the world: 122 Electricity - production: 43 million kWh (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 199 Electricity - consumption: 39.99 million kWh (2007 est.)
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Their one chance of escape in spring seemed lost; but the beach combers began rolling landward through the howling storm; and when next the spectators looked, the St. Peter was driving ashore like a hurricane ship, and rushed full force, nine feet deep with her prow into the sands not a pistol shot away from the crew.
— from Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward by Agnes C. Laut

In his replies, he says, "Not a pound shall be expended by me unnecessarily, but without money you could have had no town, no settlement, and indeed no settlers.
— from History of Halifax City by Thomas B. Akins

Unde magnum poterat adversus Christianam religionem scandalum nasci a principibus seculi .
— from Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their effects on the civilization of Europe by Jaime Luciano Balmes

I myself have purchased copies for five shillings each that I had sold for sixpence (not a profitable species of commerce), and I have been told that the book is now worth six shillings, exactly my original estimate of its possible value to an enlightened and discriminating public.
— from Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 by Eugénie Hamerton