Íyang ipakun ang mga kawáyan nga isalug, He’ll split the bamboo poles to use for flooring.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Now sir, you know me: you'll sell Harkaway to us for five shillings, or you'll repent it.”
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

If thou knowest thyself, it will follow thou wilt not puff thyself up like the frog that strove to make himself as large as the ox; if thou dost, the recollection of having kept pigs in thine own country will serve as the ugly feet for the wheel of thy folly."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The frank eagerness of the two girls to wait on me, their utter freedom from suspicion or coquetry, made me determine that I would shew myself deserving of their trust.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

It says conduct, and not sensibility, is the ultimate fact for our recognition.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

Before the front door hung the sign of "the lion and the unicorn fighting for the crown."
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

, Cut the bamboo into slats to use for fencing.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

To us for food and for delight hath caus’d The Earth to yeild; unsavourie food perhaps To spiritual Natures; only this I know, That one Celestial Father gives to all.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

But it is just in that cold, abominable half despair, half belief, in that conscious burying oneself alive for grief in the underworld for forty years, in that acutely recognised and yet partly doubtful hopelessness of one's position, in that hell of unsatisfied desires turned inward, in that fever of oscillations, of resolutions determined for ever and repented of again a minute later--that the savour of that strange enjoyment of which I have spoken lies.
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Anon he finds him Striking too short at Greeks; his antique sword, Rebellious to his arm, lies where it falls, Repugnant to command: Unequal match'd, Pyrrhus at Priam drives; in rage strikes wide; But with the whiff and wind of his fell sword 61 The unnerved father falls.
— from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare

You can also team up Fancy Font with some dot-matrix machines, especially those from Epson.
— from The Silicon Jungle by David H. Rothman

Men never enter the Uncharted Forest, for there is no power to explore it and no path to lead among its ancient trees which stand as guards of fearful secrets.
— from Anthem by Ayn Rand

The whole unruly, passionate nature of the young man was in these words; the uncanny fire flamed again in his eyes; the hands were clenched; every fibre throbbed in wild rebellion.
— from The Sign of Flame by E. Werner

Ranges of rocky hills intersect the plain, covered with underwood and low trees, which the natives are allowed to use for firewood,
— from Travels in Peru and India While Superintending the Collection of Chinchona Plants and Seeds in South America, and Their Introduction into India. by Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir

The utmost faithful freedom of speech, such as there is in these poems, creates in her no thought or feeling that shuns the light of heaven, none that are not as innocent and serenely fair as the flowers that grow; would lead, not to harm, but to such deep and tender affection as makes harm or the thought of harm simply impossible.
— from The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman

Later I discovered that they had taken us for friends at first, and had been riding to join us, when they suddenly found out their mistake, and had been compelled to meet and repel our charge before they could re-form and retreat.
— from In Taunton town : a story of the rebellion of James Duke of Monmouth in 1685 by Evelyn Everett-Green

The encounter was visibly that kind of adventure which both would treasure up for future celebration to their different friends; and it had a brilliancy and interest which they could not even now consent to keep to themselves.
— from Their Wedding Journey by William Dean Howells

You are sitting back to back with the Comtesse Marie Vandenesse, who was within an ace of committing the utmost folly for a more celebrated man than Lousteau—for Nathan—and now they do not even recognize each other.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

The tackle used for fishing an anchor. Flare.
— from The Seaman's Friend Containing a treatise on practical seamanship, with plates, a dictionary of sea terms, customs and usages of the merchant service by Richard Henry Dana

" "Yes, sir," said the clerk, who, at the appearance of Miss Vernon, had given up the matter in despair, but who picked up courage to press farther investigation on finding himself supported from a quarter whence assuredly he expected no backing—"Yes, sir, and Dalton saith, That he who is apprehended as a felon shall not be discharged upon any man's discretion, but shall be held either to bail or commitment, paying to the clerk of the peace the usual fees for recognisance or commitment.
— from Rob Roy — Volume 01 by Walter Scott