" "Oh, pooh—send somebody else," said uncle Kimble, hurrying away with Marner.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

— because you know what I mean ... Pirmi siyang ubirtayim kay hanu, ang íyang mga kabit, He always works overtime because you know, his concubines.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Many, however, were the mighty men who took service under King Harald, and became his men, and dwelt in the land with him.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

During the first years of its existence, the Studien und Kritiken had a severe struggle: in a commercial point of view it certainly did not pay; indeed, as such things are now regarded in this country, it never has paid well.
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIV July and October, 1871 by Various

Who shall convey to the souls that stumble and jostle in the foggy valleys, any glimpse of the visions, denied to them, above; any spark of comprehension of the things that they might discern, on the tops of the pure and silent hills, that stand uncomprehended, kissing heaven above the fog?
— from A Syrup of the Bees by F. W. (Francis William) Bain

It was under the weight of these new sorrows that the Dowager Lady Tichborne wrote pitiable letters to Gibbes, promising money and asking for more particulars; while enclosing at the same time to the man who thus so unaccountably kept himself aloof a letter beginning, "My dear and beloved Roger, I hope you will not refuse to come back to your poor afflicted mother.
— from Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton by Anonymous

Knudtzon, J. A. —Assyrische Gebete an den Sonnengott für Staat und königliches Haus aus der Zeit Asarhaddons und Assurbanipals.
— from The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow

He cannot hold five minutes; and see, there comes fat Tom pounding that mare along the road as if her fore-feet were of hammered iron; he has come up along the turnpike, at an infernal pace, while that turn favored him; but he will only see us kill him, and that, too, at a respectful distance.
— from Warwick Woodlands: Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago by Henry William Herbert

Now quickly make your exit, close the door and seal up key hole and cracks and space under the door with paper dipped in green soap.
— from The Mother and Her Child by William S. (William Samuel) Sadler

But after that camera was set up, KRLD had a couple of engineers out there lining up the camera.
— from Warren Commission (13 of 26): Hearings Vol. XIII (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

"Surely," answered Jacot, then, after consideration, in which his beady eye seemed to size up Kennedy, he added, sotto voce, craftily, "Would Mr. Morehouse be—er—interested in Watteau's Fête?"
— from The Social Gangster by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve