The vocabularies given by Horatio Hale (Wilkes’s U. S. Exploring Expedition , 1838–1842, Philadelphia, 1846, viii, pp.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

Unless some extraordinary event happens to prevent it they will be married exactly at the time when he wished to be married—before the end of the year.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

financiera y contribuyendo así al desarrollo de la economía mundial; contribuir a una sana expansión económica tanto en los países miembros como en los no miembros, con miras al desarrollo económico; contribuir a la expansión del comercio mundial sobre una base multilateral y no discriminatoria conforme a las obligaciones internacionales.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

An obstinately contested battle then took place between the troops of Erigyius and Caranus and those of Satibarzanes; nor did the barbarians give way until Satibarzanes, encountering Erigyius, was struck in the face with a spear and killed.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

At the lower end was Fort Johnson, then simply the station of Captain Bowman, United States Engineers, engaged in building Fort Sumter.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

amatung n large boulder or pile of rocks formed into a boulder found in shallow waters, usually slightly exposed even at high tide.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

I waited nearly half-an-hour in uncomfortable suspense, expecting every minute to be called, and vainly longing to hear him go.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Káda buntag sayu magkútil giyud siyag itlug, tubà ug sikwáti, Early every morning he drinks an egg-cocktail.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

We add on our own account—"and to understand so easily everything that is generally most difficult to believe."
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

The change will therefore go on, and it may be predicted that, unless some extraordinary event occurs, the Government of the Union will grow weaker and weaker every day.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Indeed, in the view of the unaccustomed stranger, every Elevated is an affliction so appallingly hideous that no degree of convenience could atone for its horror.
— from Your United States: Impressions of a first visit by Arnold Bennett

Within the narrow limits of a few hours we have here a tragedy of universal significance, exhibiting every form of human weakness and infernal wickedness, of ingratitude, desertion, injury, and insult, of bodily and mental pain and anguish, culminating in the most ignominious death then known among the Jews and Gentiles, the death of a malefactor and a slave.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

[56] Amongst the Americans present were several of the scientists attached to the United States exploring expedition, under Commander Wilkes, who had assembled at the Bay of Islands to await the return of their vessels from the Antarctic.
— from The Treaty of Waitangi; or, how New Zealand became a British Colony by Thomas Lindsay Buick

They always took the greater part of our cherries, till Addison at a considerable expense, some years later, bought mosquito netting to spread over the tree tops; and they also ate strawberries greedily; but we as constantly overlooked their offenses, they sang so royally and came familiarly back to us so early every spring.
— from When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine by C. A. (Charles Asbury) Stephens

Edward VI., or rather his ministers, for he was then a minor, attempted to lay a poll-tax upon sheep, every ewe kept in a separate pasture being charged threepence, every wedder twopence, and all sheep kept on commons three-halfpence; but it was found to be so oppressive, so annoying to the people, and so difficult to collect, that it was repealed during the next year.
— from A Treatise on Sheep: The Best Means for their Improvement, General Management, and the Treatment of their Diseases. by Ambrose Blacklock

As a warm wind suddenly sweeps across the cool air of a summer evening for an instant, suffocating and unnerving, so Ebn Ezra’s last words swept across David’s spirit.
— from The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Complete by Gilbert Parker