Mikútù ang sanga, dáyung kabálì, The branch made a cracking sound and then broke.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Discomfort, without any fear, is similarly expressed: thus, one day I went out of doors, just at the time when this same dog knew that her dinner would be brought.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

If such dumb shows, signs, and more obscure significations of love can so move, what shall they do that have full liberty to sing, dance, kiss, coll, to use all manner of discourse and dalliance!
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Batáha sa dúsi ka bugkus ang kamunggay, Divide the vegetables into twelve equal bundles.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

But the storm demon kept watch above, and, whenever a flame was kindled, drove the smoke back again, choking the chimney's sooty throat with its own breath.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

It is well said, quoth King Nentres; so said the King of the Hundred Knights; the same said the King Carados, and King Uriens; so did King Idres and King Brandegoris; and so did King Cradelment, and the Duke of Cambenet; the same said King Clariance and King Agwisance, and sware they would never fail other, neither for life nor for death.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

In 1893 he issued his “Handbuch für Untersuchungsrichter, als System der Kriminalistik,” a work that reached its fifth edition in 1908, and has been translated into eight foreign languages.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

O. N B Donahue, William, West Farnham Q Donald, Alexander, Burnbrae O Donaldson, Robert, Reading O Donaldson, Henry F., Enfield N S Donkin, F. A., Athol N S Donolly, William, Kertch O Donovan, Thomas, South Bay, W. O. N S Dorais, Onésime, St. Stanislas de Kostka Q Doran, William, Doran O Dorron, John, Shippigan N B Douglas, A., Middle St. Francis, W.
— from List of Post Offices in Canada, with the Names of the Postmasters ... 1872 by Canada. Post Office Department

And as for the three Jews, which also were to-fore the incarnation of our Lord, of whom the first was duke Joshua which brought the children of Israel into the land of behest, the second David king of Jerusalem, and the third Judas Machabeus, of these three the Bible rehearseth all their noble histories and acts.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

When, however, after the first welcome was over, Plato began to speak of Dion, Dionysius at first put off discussing the subject, and subsequently reproaches and quarrels took place between them, of which no one else was aware, since Dionysius kept them secret, and by showing Plato assiduous attentions and marks of respect tried to win him over from his friendship for Dion.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 4 (of 4) by Plutarch

But she laid on the table the large street door key.
— from Mistress and Maid: A Household Story by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

Here the caches were taken up, and then the launch, with three boats in tow, was steered down Kennedy Channel.
— from The Siege and Conquest of the North Pole by George Bryce

Thirty-three put it this way, “I could not support myself”; fifty-five declared that they could not support themselves and their babies, sometimes their parents; forty-five said they were out of work and could not get it; nine were in ill health or had some defect keeping them out of work.
— from Commercialized Prostitution in New York City by George J. (George Jackson) Kneeland

O may his soule in sweet Mizium sleepe, Untill the Keeper that all soules doth keepe, Returne to judgement and that after thence, With Angels he may have his recompence.
— from The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 3 by Charles Dudley Warner