Tul-id kaáyu ang dágan sa búla, The billiard table is good and level.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

I think the duty of the aggressive standing leg of the leading Bacchante, with its great look of weight, is to give a look of lightness to this forward leg of Bacchus, by contrast—which it certainly does.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

So we set out, and being gone a little way I sent home Will to look to the house, and Creed and I rode forward; the road being full of citizens going and coming toward Epsum, where, when we came, we could hear of no lodging, the town so full; but which was better, I went towards Ashted, my old place of pleasure; and there by direction of one goodman Arthur, whom we met on the way, we went to Farmer Page’s, at which direction he and I made good sport, and there we got a lodging in a little hole we could not stand upright in, but rather than go further to look we staid there, and while supper was getting ready I took him to walk up and down behind my cozen Pepys’s house that was, which I find comes little short of what I took it to be when I was a little boy, as things use commonly to appear greater than then when one comes to be a man and knows more, and so up and down in the closes, which I know so well methinks, and account it good fortune that I lie here that I may have opportunity to renew my old walks.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

He aquí una, gracias a la cual en un hemisferio fuera de estación se puede consumir
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

I then drew out a great splinter he had got there, and, growing a little more familiar with him, squeezing the wound thrust out the matter, dirt, and gravel which was got into it, and wiped and cleansed it the best I could.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

But he felt it his duty at this moment to try and give a little harangue.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Why impose the same laws upon goat and lion? Y.M.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

How like the great and little of mankind!"
— from A Cotswold Village; Or, Country Life and Pursuits in Gloucestershire by J. Arthur (Joseph Arthur) Gibbs

18 Some of these godlings are, like Shashthî, protectors of children from infantile disorders.
— from The Popular Religion and Folk-Lore of Northern India, Vol. 1 (of 2) by William Crooke

Jeff paused, listening to the combination of unfamiliar sounds: a grunt, a low curse, a rustle of whispered conversation, a low whistle.
— from A Man Obsessed by Alan Edward Nourse

“Thank goodness, there is The Grange at last.
— from Our Bessie by Rosa Nouchette Carey

One of us must go ashore later on and do some chopping."
— from The House Boat Boys; Or, Drifting Down to the Sunny South by St. George Rathborne

May the Prophet give them grace of their consultation!’ he added ironically; ‘tell thy mistress that; and tell her too,’ he continued, speaking between his teeth, and looking back after he had gone a little way, ‘tell her to remember my words, which I will perform if there be occasion, so help me Alla and his Prophet—now begone!’
— from Tippoo Sultaun: A tale of the Mysore war by Meadows Taylor

This was after going a long while against the wind.
— from Farthest North, Vol. I Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 by Fridtjof Nansen

A glance at Louis’ court and at his personal surroundings will suffice to give us a picture of the condition of the country.
— from The story of Hungary by Ármin Vámbéry

First he steered to Gotland, and lay there long in summer watching for merchant vessels sailing towards the land, or for vikings.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

''Deed, and it is not that I would like to be doing Mrs. Edwards an ill turn, in taking you away before Jonet is old enough to supply your place, in some sort, Ales, fach , or in going and leaving Rhys to do as he likes; but I am too old to be ordered about and taught my business by him, whatever.
— from The Making of William Edwards; or, The Story of the Bridge of Beauty by Banks, G. Linnaeus (George Linnaeus), Mrs.