Mamisíta tingáli si Usting kay ispúting man, Maybe Osting is paying his girl a visit, for he is dressed up.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

As soon as they were ready they stood up knife in hand and salaamed to the Emperor, for such Kophetua knew he must be.
— from Kophetua the Thirteenth by Julian Stafford Corbett

As they are wanted, send them in hot, one or two at a time, as, if allowed to stand, they spoil, unless kept in a muffin-plate over a basin of boiling water.
— from The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton

Gurlt, Dr. E. Ueber den Transport Schwerverwundeter und Kranker im Kriege, nebst Vorschlägen über die Benutzung der Eisenbahnen dabei.
— from The Rise of Rail-Power in War and Conquest, 1833-1914 by Edwin A. Pratt

She had always a passionate temper inherited from her Latin ancestors, though she usually kept it well under control.
— from The Camp Fire Girls in After Years by Margaret Vandercook

For there were no surgical instruments, lint, anaesthetics, nor antiseptics that I knew of in the Château; and though I knew of a house in Montreux where I could find them, the distance was quite infinite, and the time an eternity in which to leave her all alone, bleeding to death; and, to my horror, I remembered that there was barely enough petrol in the motor, and the store usually kept in the house exhausted.
— from The Purple Cloud by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel

“I had been taken on the paper through a friend and not through merit, and by the same undeserved, kindly influence, after a month or so I was set to writing short political editorials, and was at it nearly two years.
— from The Gentleman from Indiana by Booth Tarkington

That they have multiplied in the western world and have there become a race happier, at any rate in all the circumstances of their life, than their still untamed kinsmen in Africa, must also be acknowledged.
— from North America — Volume 2 by Anthony Trollope

It is not sufficient, therefore, in education, to store up knowledge; it is essential to arrange facts so that they shall be ready for use, as materials for the imagination, or the judgment, to select and combine.
— from Practical Education, Volume I by Richard Lovell Edgeworth