Uyúga siya ug kusug arun mumata, Shake him hard to wake him up. (→) n mature coconut, at the stage when the water sounds if it is shaken.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

To the perfect view of God's character and government which the pages of the Bible unfold, no man can add anything, and whoever takes any thing away only mars and mutilates it.
— from Companion to the Bible by E. P. (Elijah Porter) Barrows

What might be called the wages of capital have been unjustly high and are destined to fall until no man can afford to be a mere capitalist.
— from The New Christianity; or, The Religion of the New Age by Salem Goldworth Bland

As commonly used, "nature" means creation apart from man.
— from Happiness as Found in Forethought Minus Fearthought by Horace Fletcher

If Mr. Stanford had been trying for a week, he could have used no more convincing argument.
— from Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters: A Novel by May Agnes Fleming

he exclaimed; “every sound you utter now may cost a man’s life.
— from Under the Meteor Flag: Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War by Harry Collingwood

If surprised, I was to act the nocturnal lover, and he the angry defender of his sister's reputation—a foolish but not ill-looking girl, to whom I had confided nothing beyond a few amorous glances, so that her evidence (if unluckily needed) might carry all the weight of an obvious incapacity to invent or deceive.
— from The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales by Arthur Quiller-Couch

Well, Mrs. Sperrit has had an experience, and I guess no lost barn will ever lead her into looking up no more cousins after this."
— from Susan Clegg and Her Love Affairs by Anne Warner

Sponges can be bleached by first soaking them in hydrochloric acid, diluted with 1 1 ⁄ 2 parts of water, until no more carbonic acid is given off; then wash in pure water, and afterwards leave in a bath composed of 2 lbs.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

The men dug rat holes for themselves at the base of the bluffs, and did what they could in the way of self-protection, while the Confederates on the cliffs above kept up a murderous vertical fire upon them throughout the day, until nightfall mercifully came and brought with it an opportunity for the Federals to retire.
— from The History of the Confederate War, Its Causes and Its Conduct, Volume 2 (of 2) A Narrative and Critical History by George Cary Eggleston