Dì prisintabli ning sinináa, This dress is not presentable.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

As soon as he was fastened to the stake, and the fagots lighted, he addressed the spectators as follows: The cause why I suffer this day is not for any crime, (though I acknowledge myself a miserable sinner) but only for the defence of the truth as it is in Jesus Christ; and I praise God who hath called me, by his mercy, to seal the truth with my life; which, as I received it from him, so I willingly and joyfully offer it up to his glory.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

—The change in economic ideas, which had come over Europe through the liberalizing thought of the eighteenth century, is shown also by a most radical step to direct into new channels the commerce of the Philippines.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

he shouted—"there's the door— I never saw your face before!
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

Iuro per mala mea, per infelicem conscientiam, per illos manes, numina mei doloris, has me in illo vidisse virtutes ingeni, non modo ad percipiendas disciplinas, quo nihil praestantius cognovi plurima expertus studiique iam tum non coacti (sciunt praeceptores), sed probitatis, pietatis, humanitatis, liberalitatis, ut prorsus posset hinc esse tanti fulminis metus, quod observatum fere est, celerius occidere festinatam maturitatem: et esse nescio quam quae spes tantas decerpat invidiam, ne videlicet ultra, quam homini datum est, nostra provehantur.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

He was about to say, “The dinner is nearly over and his Reverence is now satiated,” but restrained himself and merely remarked to the others, “Gentlemen, don’t be surprised at the familiarity with which our former curate treats me.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

One pleasant morning after a cold night, February 24th, 1850, having gone to Flint's Pond to spend the day, I noticed with surprise, that when I struck the ice with the head of my axe, it resounded like a gong for many rods around, or as if I had struck on a tight drum-head.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

[“For who is there that antiquity, attested and confirmed by the fairest monuments, cannot move?”—Cicero, De Divin., i. 40.] besides what Isocrates says, that defect is nearer allied to moderation than excess: the other is a much more ruffling gamester; for whosoever shall take upon him to choose and alter, usurps the authority of judging, and should look well about him, and make it his business to discern clearly the defect of what he would abolish, and the virtue of what he is about to introduce.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

When his reverses first began it had seemed easy for him to give up everything, to let the people he owed take all, so only they would let him go out with clean hands; and he had dramatised this feeling in his talk with his wife, when they spoke together of the mills on the G. L. & P. But ever since then it had been growing harder, and he could not consent even to seem to do it now in the proposed assignment.
— from The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells

In the southern part of Kansas the Harris sparrows are said to be common winter sojourners, but in the north-eastern part of the state they disappeared in November or December, and did not return until the middle of February, or later if the weather happened to be severe.
— from Our Bird Comrades by Leander S. (Leander Sylvester) Keyser

The interior of the shaft is not blackened by smoke, and while the tunnel is somewhat smoke-stained, the deposit is not so pronounced as on the walls of the room.
— from The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198 by Cosmos Mindeleff

Riley gave the foreman careful instructions; early in the morning he was to take all the boys and spend the day, if necessary, in running down the fugitive, who under no circumstances was to be injured or roughly handled.
— from Faery Lands of the South Seas by James Norman Hall

As his friends wept, he said, “This day is not the end of my life, but
— from Aunt Charlotte's Stories of Greek History by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

I found it necessary, because my mail was being opened, my mail, I have reported to the Postal Inspections, I have stated in the beginning that all of my rights were taken away from me, and, sir, believe me they were, and when I was a lone woman I would say something I was supposed to be out of my mind and didn't know what I was talking about I started to decide I needed some evidence too and Mr. Sorrels kept pushing me off about seeing my daughter-in-law, I have him on tape, and I have Mr. Thorne on tape about my mail being opened.
— from Warren Commission (01 of 26): Hearings Vol. I (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

only be still, mother,' said the lad; 'and I'll be sure to do it next time.'
— from Tales from the Fjeld: A Second Series of Popular Tales by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen

Objection 1: It would seem that discord is not a sin.
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Remorse, for example, is always a first step to discovery, if not to confession; and any lesser uneasiness similarly tends to trouble of mind and consequent danger of body.
— from The Red Redmaynes by Eden Phillpotts