Titek ’ku titek, ayer lior sa-titek di-atas permeidani, Tundok kasih sayang ummat Muhammad memandang aku.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

It is you who sold us, my mother and me, to the merchant, El-Kobbir!
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Struggling in my father’s hands, Striving against my swaddling bands, Bound and weary, I thought best To sulk upon my mother’s breast.
— from Songs of Innocence, and Songs of Experience by William Blake

Ang táwu nga nagdala sa upisína maáyung mudala sa íyang mga kawáni, The man who manages the office treats his employees well.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Igitur ea victoria nobilitas ex lubidine sua usa multos mortales ferro aut fuga exstinxit plusque 15 in reliquum sibi timoris quam potentiae addidit.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

He said they saw my stick and handkerchief thrust out of the hole, and concluded that some unhappy man must be shut up in the cavity.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World by Jonathan Swift

Yesterday towards evening there spake unto me MY STILLEST HOUR: that is the name of my terrible mistress.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

What I saw unnerved me most surprisingly, considering its relative triviality.
— from The Shunned House by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

Dundonald and the advance guard, in which were Imperial Light Horse, Carbineers, Natal Police of the Frontier Field Force, and Border Mounted Rifles, numbering only one hundred and seventy, under Major Mackenzie.
— from Four Months Besieged: The Story of Ladysmith by Henry H. S. Pearse

But in spite of that, and the blurring of my eyesight, every word and every letter is stamped upon my memory as upon a plate of brass.
— from The Rose of Paradise Being a detailed account of certain adventures that happened to captain John Mackra, in connection with the famous pirate, Edward England, in the year 1720, off the Island of Juanna in the Mozambique Channel; writ by himself, and now for the first time published by Howard Pyle

If you, Lawyer Lightwood, had backed me good and true, and if the T'other Governor had took me down correct (I says under my mark), I should have been worth money at the present time, instead of having a barge-load of bad names chucked at me, and being forced to eat my words, which is a unsatisfying sort of food wotever a man's appetite!
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

—See under "M." Mellin's Food.
— from Merck's 1899 Manual of the Materia Medica by Merck & Co.

“Stand up, my mettled wench,” said he, giving her a sly kiss at the same time, “and let us know what is going on up at the Castle.”
— from Peveril of the Peak by Walter Scott

Her gestures and movements might be understood by any one who looked on like Emma; but her words, every body's words, were soon lost under the incessant flow of Miss Bates, who came in talking, and had not finished her speech under many minutes after her being admitted into the circle at the fire.
— from Emma by Jane Austen