I then alluded to my idea that she might add to her small income by selling tea; and, to my surprise (for I had nearly given up the plan), my father grasped at it with all the energy of a tradesman.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Ug dúnay malígù sa táas, ang túbig mutúlù námù diri, If s.o. takes a bath upstairs, water drips down on us.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Only a short time after, the man who bought his farm discovered upon it a great flood of coal-oil, which the farmer had previously ignorantly tried to drain off.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

" Mrs. Garth felt a severe twinge at this mention of her husband, the fear that Caleb might think her in the wrong not being easily endurable.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

After dinner I took leave to go to Westminster, where I was at the Privy Seal Office all day, signing things and taking money, so that I could not do as I had intended, that is to return to them and go to the Red Bull Playhouse, [This well-known theatre was situated in St. John’s Street on the site of Red Bull Yard.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

“By all means,” said Hatton who seemed to apprehend that Morley would make some difficulties.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

I here asked about the personal aspects of most fairies of human size, and my friend said:—‘ They appear to me in the same dress as in the days when they lived here on earth; the spirit itself is only what God blew into Adam as the breath of life.’
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Let all the doctors hold their peace; let all creation keep silence before Thee: speak Thou alone to me.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

At least, so they all tell me.”
— from Dorothy Dale in the West by Margaret Penrose

She thereupon admitted that many years ago a neighbor's boy had died of appendicitis, which the doctor said was caused by a grape-seed.
— from Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness by Robert S. (Robert Sproul) Carroll

They watched the motions of the animals for some time, and the Major first broke silence by saying, "I really have not the heart to fire at the poor creature; its maternal kindness, and the playing of the little one, are too interesting.
— from The Mission by Frederick Marryat

Therefore, I say that all these matters can be got along with, provided we have the sure and safe foundation, which must be based on honesty and integrity to God and the true interests of His kingdom and people.
— from Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Eliza R. (Eliza Roxey) Snow

Mrs Fos. Let me curse somewhere, wretch, or else I'll throw Them all on thee; 'tis thou, ungodly slave, That art the mark unto the wrath of heaven: I thriv'd
— from A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 12 by Robert Dodsley

And from my experience of woodcraft and trail-reading—I think I can honestly claim a bit of expert knowledge there, by the way—I would say that all the marks from the beginning of the slope to the edge of the water were quite indefinite; that is, I think they could be interpreted in several different ways, all except one."
— from The Trial of Callista Blake by Edgar Pangborn

Now all the houses in the hamlets and towns which I passed had double windows, and at the bottom, between the two, a layer of cotton was spread to absorb the moisture.
— from The Land of the Long Night by Paul B. (Paul Belloni) Du Chaillu

But he said, “Thou art to me as a mother, and my brother is to me as a father.”
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 11 of 12) by James George Frazer