v 1 [A; b6(1)] scrub the floor when it is dry.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

“Another day will be too late,” said the Fox.
— from The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

Her mouth was rather small; the full red lower lip projected a little as did her chin; it was the only irregularity in her beautiful face, but it gave it a peculiarly individual and almost haughty expression.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Then said the king to the damsel Linet, “Why cometh not the Lady Lyones to visit her knight, Sir Gareth, who hath had such travail for her love?”
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

When sleep overpowered me I dreamed of them—dreamed I was again in Saratoga—that I could see their faces, and hear their voices calling me.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

All this was dexterously managed, and when daylight appeared the caziques and other chiefs were not a little surprised to find only three prisoners remaining.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

--Seal of the Corporation of Shoemakers of St. Trond, from a Map of 1481, preserved in the Archives of that Town.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

In fact, precisely as a rash, restive horse is said to feel his oats, so Turkey felt his coat.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires Transcribed from the 1891 Cassell & Company edition by Les Bowler.
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

(every one has his madness) Slip forth from the common herd, my son, think for yourself Suspicion that he is a feeble human creature after all!
— from The French Immortals: Quotes and Images, Complete by Various

As soon as we came over the brow of the hill, we could see the folk gathering.
— from The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

In surrendering to the born Netherlander—the heroic chieftain of the illustrious house of Nassau—these Netherlanders were neither sullying their flag nor injuring their country.
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) by John Lothrop Motley

Sept. 19 The leaves of some of the cottonwood begin to fade: yesterday saw the first brant passing from the northwest to southeast.
— from History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. II To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6. by William Clark

It stilled the fevered unrest of her spirit.
— from The Hundredth Chance by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

On the priest leaving the place, he met, at a distance of five or six miles, a brother missionary of the deceased, Mr. Spaulding, the field of whose labors lay about a hundred miles off, at a place on the river Coldwater.
— from Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic" by William Worthington Fowler

How many youths have believed they would, by merit alone, rise to the Presidency of the United States— THE FIRST MAN IN FIFTY MILLIONS!
— from The Golden Censer Or, the duties of to-day, the hopes of the future by John McGovern

As already stated, this form of phosphorus has not been previously used and has been regarded as without effect on the human system because of its insolubility in any of the liquids of the body.
— from The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines, Vol. 1 of 2 by Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry (American Medical Association)