The young lady's lamentations were checked at this point by a knuckle, knocking at the half-open door of the room.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

At first they breathed temperately upon the travellers, winds good to meet when one crawled over some gigantic hog's-back; but in a few days, at a height of nine or ten thousand feet, those breezes bit; and Kim kindly allowed a village of hillmen to acquire merit by giving him a rough blanket-coat.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

As we were starting an umfaan brought a kid, killed and cleaned, and handed it to me—a gift from the chief; and the old induna stepped up to Heron with a queer look in his wrinkled, cunning old phiz, and said: “‘The chief says, “Hamba gahlé”,’ (‘Pleasant journey’), ‘and sends you this.’
— from The Outspan: Tales of South Africa by Percy Fitzpatrick

“Yes, indeed,” said I, “along with Bill and Katy Kelly, at the age of eleven.
— from My Friend Annabel Lee by Mary MacLane

This was connected to the main engine-frame by a kingbolt, K , as in Allen's engine.
— from The American Railway: Its Construction, Development, Management, and Appliances by Thomas Curtis Clarke

"This mornin' she gave me some money fer a new pair o' mittens fer her, an' shoes fer me; an' the cook asked me t' buy a kitchen knife an' a few pans fer him.
— from Baldy of Nome by Esther Birdsall Darling

No butcher at home with clean blocks and keen knives and meat saws ever cut up meat as quickly or as skillfully and neatly as did these men.
— from Up the Mazaruni for Diamonds by William La Varre

Do. Bar, all kinds Kind and size Do.
— from Material Classification Recommended by the Railway Storekeepers' Association by United States. Railroad administration. Division of finance