[ 170 ] They spun around on one leg, waving their swords, then bounded forward and made a thrust at the tiger, moving back quickly with the point of the weapon facing the animal; they crawled along the ground and sprung over it uttering defiant yells, they cut and parried at supposed attacks, finally throwing down their weapons and taunting the dead beast by dancing before it unarmed.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

How unfortnet do you want me fur to be? I've been a-chivied and a-chivied, fust by one on you and nixt by another on you, till I'm worritted to skins and bones.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

The duchess was very agreeable, and when I kissed her hand to take leave, she said, “I hope, Don Giacomo, that you have had no unpleasantness during your short stay at Naples, and that you will sometimes think of your visit with pleasure.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

kay lawum ug dulut, You have to really dig out the cogon grass, because it runs deep.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Although the prime cause of this desire is a false judgment as to your previous unconscious desire, yet the new conscious desire has its own derivative genuineness, and may influence your actions to the extent of sending you round the world.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

CLAIRE: Funny—you should want that, ( speaks unwillingly, a curious, wistful unwillingness ) Did you ever say a preposterous thing, then go trailing after the thing you've said and find it wasn't so preposterous?
— from Plays by Susan Glaspell

He nodded his head slowly and gravely at her, and lowering his voice said, ‘Can she hear us, do you think?’
— from An Ocean Tragedy by William Clark Russell

In between efforts, he gasped out orders to "Get up, get up, get up , damn you!"
— from The Men in the Walls by William Tenn

A voice from heaven was as if heard by many of us: “Do you not see that in your Church of Rome, you do not follow the Word of God, but the lying traditions of men?
— from Fifty Years in the Church of Rome by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy

Emmie ran up-stairs to fetch her hat, the first evening after dinner, and as she took my arm for a stroll, she asked eagerly: "Oh, uncle, did you see those two ladies who sat side by side—one in black silk and the other in all the colors of the rainbow? Were not they an odd contrast?
— from Countess Vera; or, The Oath of Vengeance by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

And as Renwick gave up despairingly, "You see, I worked very hard all last week and slept like a dead man."
— from The Secret Witness by George Gibbs

On the middle of the rustic bridge before mentioned he stops her, to say, unexpectedly,— "Do you know by what name I shall always call you in my thoughts?"
— from Mrs. Geoffrey by Duchess

Thus Ulysses do ye know?
— from The Æneid of Virgil, Translated into English Verse by Virgil

It was she who informed me that the Count had come here, bent upon discovering your refuge, and resolved to wed your daughter.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various

Ye don't think they'll make him throw it up, do ye, mum?”
— from Tom Grogan by Francis Hopkinson Smith