Naghamil siya ug lánut pára himúung písì, He is sorting out the abaca fibers to make into rope.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

So far as the search under legal process has developed, no assets of Arnold & Co., except a stock farm and stock thereon, office furniture and fixtures, and a few hundred dollars in cash, were found.
— from Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World by Clifton R. (Clifton Rodman) Wooldridge

[118] CHAPTER IX That night Conniston sat up late, perched high on the corral fence, staring at the stars while he tore down and builded up the World.
— from Under Handicap A Novel by Jackson Gregory

His ideas are served up, like pancakes, hot and hot.
— from Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners by William Hazlitt

I am grateful to the following persons for the loan of specimens: G. B. Corbet, British Museum, Natural History (BM); David H. Johnson, United States National Museum (USNM); George H. Lowery, Jr., Louisiana State University (LSU); Philip Hershkovitz, Chicago Natural History Museum (CM); William B. Davis, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College (TAM); W. H. Burt and Emmet T. Hooper, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ).
— from Taxonomic Status of Some Mice of The Peromyscus boylii Group in Eastern Mexico, With Description of a New Subspecies by Ticul Alvarez

A rhapsodist, made up with no little skill to resemble the blind minstrel of the Odyssey, recited from the Iliad the valiant deeds of Achilles; and, later on in the evening, the Pretender himself performed, as well as somewhat unsteady legs permitted him, the Pyrrhic dance.
— from Lords of the World: A story of the fall of Carthage and Corinth by Alfred John Church

But they said that this guide was to be an Indian of Tipu, who came to Peten while we were there, and, though the said Indian saw us leave Peten, he never came at all, but rather stayed there."
— from History of the Spanish Conquest of Yucatan and of the Itzas Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Hard University. Vol. VII. by Philip Ainsworth Means

Here, in the glowing language of Chateaubriand, are seen "floating islands of Pistia and Nenuphar, whose yellow roses spring up like pavilions; here magnificent savanas unfold their green mantles, which seem in the distance to blend their verdure with the azure of the skies.
— from The South-West, by a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 by J. H. (Joseph Holt) Ingraham