Ang bug-at nga trabáhu makauguy (makapauguy) sa mga bátà, Hard work can stunt a child’s growth.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

hanggaw a be a jerk, without common sense.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The whole of me, forever, What more the woman can, — Say quick, that I may dower thee With last delight I own!
— from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson

] We can say, Cicero says thus; these were the manners of Plato; these are the very words of Aristotle: but what do we say ourselves?
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Though indeed we could spare nothing of Tennyson, however small or however peculiar—not "Break, Break," nor "Flower in the Crannied Wall," nor the old, eternally-told passion of "Edward Gray:" Love may come and love may go, And fly like a bird from tree to tree.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

If this operation was facilitated by the hundred roads which cross Swabia in all directions, and if it would have been impracticable in a mountainous country, for want of transversal routes, to make the long circuit from Donauwerth by Augsburg to Memmingen, it is also true that Mack could by these same hundred roads have effected his retreat with much greater facility than if he had been entrapped in one of the valleys of Switzerland or of the Tyrol, from which there was but a single outlet.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

You can let Major Smith receive the few hundreds of cash I have on hand, and I can meet you on a day certain in New Orleans, when we can settle the bank account.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

"No one will come," said Navailles, mockingly.
— from The Duke's Motto: A Melodrama by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy

O, the length and breadth, the height and depth, the cruelty and the irony of a prejudice which can so belittle human nature.
— from The American Prejudice Against Color An Authentic Narrative, Showing How Easily the Nation Got into an Uproar. by Allen, William G., active 1849-1853

The Germans, like the Welsh, can sing perfectly serious songs perfectly seriously in chorus: can with clear eyes and clear voices join together in words of innocent and beautiful personal passion, for a false maiden or a dead child.
— from The Victorian Age in Literature by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

"This is a wonderful passage, up into the air!" thought the Bottle; "this is a new way of sailing; at any rate, up here we cannot strike upon anything."
— from What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

They would probably wait until the rains were over, the stranger said, though this was not certain; but once they started, they would spare nothing on their march; and as their priests had a special animus against white men, he considered they would certainly storm the camp.
— from The League of the Leopard by Harold Bindloss

But in spite of her reckless words Christie sobbed herself to sleep that night like a child who knows it is astray, yet cannot see the right path or hear its mother's voice calling it home.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

"I do not know that you are acquainted with her, but you should remember her mother, old Nanny Tobert, as she was called; she kept a little confectionery—almost every one in Savanah knew her."
— from The Garies and Their Friends by Frank J. Webb

However, having made up her mind to do her work without complaint, she ran upstairs to put on her dust-cap, trying to look as if sweeping was the joy of her life.
— from Jack and Jill by Louisa May Alcott

[Is already dead, "at Brussels, July 4th;" Duke of Sachsen-Teschen and Wife Christine succeeded him as Joint-Governors in those parts.]
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 21 by Thomas Carlyle