Ilagà kunu ang giunud sa syúpaw, S.o. said they used rat meat as the filling for the Chinese sandwich.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

He saw the world as it is; saw how the rich lived beyond the jurisdiction of law and public opinion, and found in success the ultima ratio mundi .
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

“But you do not seem to understand!” resumed Madame Josserand in a shrill voice.
— from Piping Hot! (Pot-Bouille): A Realistic Novel by Émile Zola

No sooner was this done than the entire assembly [81] crowded around the leader, stroking his back, licking his hands, fawning at his feet, and in every possible way showing the utmost respect mingled with fear.
— from Captured by Apes; or, How Philip Garland Became King of Apeland by Harry Prentice

You have something to say to us,” reminded Miss Briggs.
— from Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders on the Old Apache Trail by Josephine Chase

Noll felt sure that Uncle Richard must notice it and rejoice, even though it might be secretly.
— from Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught by Glance Gaylord

It is not necessary that we should do more than allude to the general tone of the pamphlet, which seems to us rather more arrogant than the occasion demanded.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 67, No. 411, January 1850 by Various

The rest of the family are usually quite satisfied to stand some self-denial so that unfortunate results may not follow.
— from Psychotherapy Including the History of the Use of Mental Influence, Directly and Indirectly, in Healing and the Principles for the Application of Energies Derived from the Mind to the Treatment of Disease by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

[124] It was a stirring sight to see these untamed red men in the depths of the Napo wilderness starting on a monkey crusade; but it was still more stirring to think of paddling our own canoe down to Brazil.
— from The Andes and the Amazon; Or, Across the Continent of South America by James Orton

I say ill things I would not say— Things unaware: Regard my breast, Lord, in Thy day, And not my prayer.
— from New Poems, and Variant Readings by Robert Louis Stevenson

Are you not tired?” “Not more so than usual,” replied Micheline, looking round to follow the movements of her husband, who was trying to reach Jeanne.
— from Serge Panine — Complete by Georges Ohnet