At that point he remembers that learned women are usually tedious, that they are exacting, strict, and unyielding; and, on the other hand, how easy it is to get on with silly Lidotchka, who never pokes her nose into anything, does not understand so much, and never obtrudes her criticism.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Ug sa matag adlaw nga milabay láing kahásul ang mipunpun dihà sa íyang kaisípan,
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

So you're not to laugh at us, and you must find us some more adventures, now you've brought us up here."
— from The Tapestry Room: A Child's Romance by Mrs. Molesworth

The Elf likes this last part of the walk, because she loves to imagine she is a goosegirl in a fairy tale, who drives geese, until she meets a noble Prince, who finds out that really she is a Princess all the time.
— from Pond and Stream by Arthur Ransome

The cotyledons of several plants move up so much at night as to stand nearly or quite vertically; and in this latter case they come into close contact with one another.
— from The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Francis, Sir

Yet does it not seem (this present world being so very full of sadness) that there must needs be some Isles of the Blessed, called by whatever name, where those whom hard fate has divided here, but whom the good gods must surely destine to be some day united, shall meet, again never to be parted?
— from Onesimus: Memoirs of a Disciple of St. Paul by Edwin Abbott Abbott

“Will you tell us some more about New York, sir?”
— from Julius, the Street Boy; or, Out West by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

Wiggily had been saved, and he and the bunny uncle soon made a new kite, better than the first.
— from Uncle Wiggily in the Woods by Howard Roger Garis

“Has your Eminence recovered from that cold which distressed us so much?” asked Nani.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete by Émile Zola