Wà pa ku makakasku sa ákung muskitíru kay wà pa kuy ilangitlángit
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Tibuli ug gás ang kanal arun mamatay ang wayawaya, Pour kerosene over the ditch so that the wrigglers will die.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Either his senses were peculiarly keen (which it is difficult to suppose), or the sound was really very distinct.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I Saw to day Bird of the wood pecker kind which fed on Pine burs its Bill and tale white the wings black every other part of a light brown, and about the Size of a robin.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Its lack, and the persistent shirking of it, as in life, sociology, literature, politics, business, and even sermonizing, these times, or any times, still leaves the abysm, the mortal flaw and smutch, mocking civilization to-day, with all its unquestion'd triumphs, and all the civilization so far known.{30} Present literature, while magnificently fulfilling certain popular demands, with plenteous knowledge and verbal smartness, is profoundly sophisticated, insane, and its very joy is morbid.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Wà pa ku níya hitsúi ug báyad, He has not paid me in full.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Now this revolt of theirs was presently known at Taricheae; and as Josephus had sent out all the soldiers that were with him to gather corn, he knew not how either to march out alone against the revolters, or to stay where he was, because he was afraid the king's soldiers might prevent him if he tarried, and might get into the city; for he did not intend to do any thing on the next day, because it was the sabbath day, and would hinder his proceeding.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

All their lives women hear mention made by men of things claiming importance—large profits, success in war, people killed in duels, fiendish or admirable revenges, and so on.
— from On Love by Stendhal

He adds no discoveries to what was previously known, and even asserts, in contradiction to others, that the Bactrians had subjected to their dominion a larger portion of India than the Macedonians; for Eucratidas (one of these kings) had a thousand cities subject to his authority.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

How little did the King or Holmes himself foresee the effects of the capture,—B.] so that we have been doing them mischief for a great while in several parts of the world; without publique knowledge or reason.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Te the Pitt dinner nyen ax'd me in: Yet aw work like a Turk, Byeth wi' pick, knife, an' fork— An' whe's mair a Pittite nor Cranky.
— from The Newcastle Song Book; or, Tyne-Side Songster Being a Collection of Comic and Satirical Songs, Descriptive of Eccentric Characters, and the Manners and Customs of a Portion of the Labouring Population of Newcastle and the Neighbourhood by Various

Eph. 2:4, etc. 'I,' Paul, 'bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that he would grant you according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye being rooted and grounded in love, may Page 405 be able to comprehend with all saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height, and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
— from The Power of Faith Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham. by Isabella Graham

That the Eastern Inhabitants of India , made use of such order, even in open Plantations, is deducible from Theophrastus ; who describing the trees whereof they made their garments, plainly delivereth that they were planted kaτʼ ὄρχους, and in such order that at a distance men would mistake them for Vineyards.
— from The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 3 by Browne, Thomas, Sir

Walà untà ku muanhig wà pa ku imbitaha, I wouldn’t have come unless I had been invited.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

“The war prisoners, Kommando 274 of Stalag II B, complain, December 1944, of being employed on Sundays in the construction of antitank trenches.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 5 by Various

Before going, however, the whim seized me to write on the wall in large letters, with a piece of red drawing-chalk I had in my waistcoat pocket, ' Kidnapper, beware!
— from Aylwin by Theodore Watts-Dunton

Nannie and Mädel go with papa, Kathie and Paul with Miss Marston, and the rest of us straggle along as we like until we get to the church.
— from We Ten Or, The Story of the Roses by Barbara Yechton

The quantity required and the terms of payment are the inducement to offer it to thee at the exceeding low price here stated, which thou wilt please keep to thyself undivulged to other person , etc., etc."
— from Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II by Samuel Finley Breese Morse