Subáyun ta ang nakúhà gíkan sa
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Although much burnt by the sun, they are not generally so dark as the Magyars.
— from The Human Race by Louis Figuier

“Then he’d better hold his tongue,” said Tom, “and not get shouting, or he’ll have all these great beasts come rushing at him, same as they did in the ponds at home when we used to throw in a worm upon a bent pin and fish for the little newts.
— from The Golden Magnet by George Manville Fenn

As they grow wild nearly everywhere in the States, they are not grown so much in gardens here.
— from Making a Garden of Perennials by W. C. (William Constantine) Egan

Speech tarried as Nathos gazed spell-bound.
— from Celtic Tales, Told to the Children by Louey Chisholm

This explains the circumstance that despite their mental suppleness, they are not genuinely strong intellectually.
— from The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

“I’m sorry there are no gentlemen,” said I, and I was.
— from The First Violin A Novel by Jessie Fothergill

Surely things are not going so wrong with you!
— from The Camp Fire Girls Across the Seas by Margaret Vandercook

She was curious to know why I asked such a question, and when I said I had to ask any and every sort of question or she'd be paying a detective's salary to a nursery governess, she saw the sense of it and quieted down.
— from Miss Maitland, Private Secretary by Geraldine Bonner