Lasmu kaáyu ang isdà sa batu, Fishes that live in rocks tend to have a revolting smell.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

A few days sufficing to accomplish this, he afterwards raised some works in the island also, and leaving a garrison there, departed with his forces.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

“Nothing; only I choose to have another room,” said Cassy, doggedly.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

" She thought that he meant what were the aspects of things to her, and replied shyly— "The trees have inquisitive eyes, haven't they?—that is, seem as if they had.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

By this hypothesis, a real substantial trinity is refined into a trinity of names, and abstract modifications, that subsist only in the mind which conceives them.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Luckily for him he had a sister much brighter than he ever was--though he thought himself a rather superior person--who after marrying Charles Kuhn, of Philadelphia, had come to Italy, and, like all good Americans and English, was hotly Italian.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

The power of commanding ends with nonage; and though, after that, honour and respect, support and defence, and whatsoever gratitude can oblige a man to, for the highest benefits he is naturally capable of, be always due from a son to his parents; yet all this puts no scepter into the father's hand, no sovereign power of commanding.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

A recent writer, in some respects of considerable merit, proposes (to use his own words), not a crusade, but a civilizade , against this polygamous community, to put an end to what seems to him a retrograde step in civilisation.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

And so he bids him and his companions depart, just as any other father might drive out of the house a riotous son and his undesirable associates.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

"Why," he said, "when she is pasturing, and makes up her mind that she wants to have a roll, she never stops eating.
— from In Pastures Green by Peter McArthur

He has the whole state cabin to himself; a room some nine feet square, with bench and mat to sleep on; a cabin in which he might live very well, had it not pleased the monks to stow their winter supply of tallow in the boxes beneath his couch.
— from Free Russia by William Hepworth Dixon

They had all remained standing rigidly in the middle of the room.
— from The American by Henry James

But, as Thomas Carlyle said, "It costs too much to have a revolution strike on the horologe of time to tell the world what o'clock it is"; and so it was important that destructive movements should be held in check.
— from Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police by R. G. (Roderick George) MacBeth

CHAPTER L. THE DINNER AT THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR'S. Prince Kaunitz sat lazily reclining in his arm-chair, playing with his jewelled snuff-box and listening with an appearance of unconcern to a man who, in an attitude of profoundest respect, was relating to him a remarkable story of a young emperor and a beautiful peasant-girl, in which there was much talk of woods, diamonds, milk, and an Arabian steed.
— from Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

Therefore, while I would rather listen to a Wagner music-drama than to a Mozart opera, or might go to more trouble to hear a Richard Strauss tone poem than a Beethoven symphony, I am not such an unconscionable heretic as to be unaware of the great, the very great part played by the Mozart opera and the Beethoven symphony in the evolution of music, or their importance in the orderly and systematic study of the art.
— from How to Appreciate Music by Gustav Kobbé