Mailhan nákung klási sa sigarilyu sa usa lang ka bugwak, I can tell the brand of cigarette by just one puff.† bugwal v
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Mukaang siya ug lakaw kay may hubag sa bilahan, He walks with legs apart because he has a boil in the crotch.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Sa usa lang ka lúrat ni Tátay hílum ming tanan, Father can silence us with just one look.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Ginak-áwut ku níya sa usa lang ka sumbag
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Misutuy siya ug lakaw kay nangísug tu nákù, He walked straight away without looking back because he was mad at me.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Academical honors were showered upon Lord Kelvin by seats of learning, ancient and modern; he was a D. C. L. Oxford, LL. D. Cambridge, and a D. Sc.
— from Makers of Electricity by Brother Potamian

Three English ships, under Lewis Kirke, had passed up the river and to him, Champlain, with a half-starved force of only sixteen men, had been obliged to surrender Quebec.
— from A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs: The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 by George McKinnon Wrong

Colonel Tod states: “ Umul lār khāna , to eat opium together, is the most inviolable, pledge, and an agreement ratified by this ceremony is stronger than any adjuration.”
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 4 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

So he smiled upon Loki kindly and said: "Well done, brother."
— from In the Days of Giants: A Book of Norse Tales by Abbie Farwell Brown

We're foreigners here and you can't blame the Mayberry people for not takin' chances; it looks as if nobody in it ever had taken a chance, as if it had been just the way it is since Noah came out of the Ark. I never felt so new and shiny in my life as I do around this old rectory and this old town.” Which was all perfectly true and yet the fact remains that, “new and shiny” as we were, the Mayberry people—those of our “class”—began to call upon us almost immediately, to invite us to their homes, to show us little kindnesses, and to be whole-souled and hospitable and friendly as if we had known them and they us for years.
— from Kent Knowles: Quahaug by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

X has three sounds: its regular sharp sound (unmarked) like ks, as in expect, and its soft or flat sound like gz, as in exist, marked x;.
— from McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling Book by Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton) McGuffey

Pahlgam stands some 2000 feet above Srinagar, and although it is not supposed to be bracing, yet to us, jaded votaries of fashion in stuffy Srinagar, the fresh, clear, pine-scented air was purely delightful, and a couple of days saw us "like kidlings blythe and merry"—that is to say, as much so as a couple of sedate middle-aged people could reasonably be expected to appear.
— from A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil by T. R. Swinburne