On New Year's day, while Arthur and his knights are keeping the Yuletide feast at Camelot, a gigantic knight in green enters the banquet hall on horseback and challenges the bravest knight present to an exchange of blows; that is, he will expose his neck to a blow of his own big battle-ax, if any knight will agree to abide a blow in return.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

But though he was destroying all the standing crops up to the very walls of the town, Caecilius was not shaken from his resolution, but kept persistently to it, until he had induced him to cross the river which lay between him and the town.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Yang bĕrulang ka pusat tasek is the expression applied to Mambang Tali Harus.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Then she would stand behind K. - pretending to watch the lawyer as he bent greedily over his cup, poured the tea in and drank - and secretly let K. hold her hand.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

Kaufmotiv motive to buy Kaufmotiv purchasing motive Kaufoption buyer's option Kaufoption call option Kaufpreis purchase price Kaufstimmung buying mood Kaufunlust; Unlust zu kaufen disinclination to buy Kaufurkunde bill of sale Kaufvertrag agreement to sell Kaufvertrag contract of sale Kaufvertrag purchase contract Kaufvertrag sales agreement Kaufvertrag sales contract Kaufwunsch buying desire Kaufwunsch; Drang zu kaufen desire to buy Kaufzwang pressure to buy Kaution caution money Kautionswechsel bill given as security kein ausreichendes Gewicht not a sufficient weight kein bestimmter Bahnhof no particular station kein bestimmter Dock no particular wharf
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Mi iris en la butikon kie pendis tiaj gantoj, kiajn mi ŝatas, kaj oni tuj venis por renkonti min, kaj demandis "Kiajn vestojn vi volas aĉeti?"
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

Ser.), which is concerned with the philosophy of grammar, and by Kaiyaṭa (probably thirteenth century).
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

He would take the gentleman to the mouth of the river at Batu Kring (Patusan town “being situated internally,” he remarked, “thirty miles”).
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

While Mr Wilks, therefore, was thundering out, “Where are the carpenters to walk on before King Pyrrhus?” that monarch very quietly eat his mutton, and the audience, however impatient, were obliged to entertain themselves with music in his absence.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

The foot behaved rather better, knowing, perhaps, that if they fought they would be behind hedges, in some sort of shelter.
— from Martin Hyde, the Duke's Messenger by John Masefield

Ang prisidinti nagpasaylu ug dúsi ka binilanggù karung Pasku, The president pardoned twelve prisoners this Christmas.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Philippi was a city built by King Philip, the father of Alexander the Great.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Acts of the Apostles, Vol. 2 by George Thomas Stokes

The snuff-brush, newly replenished from the tin box, kept perfect time to the motion of the chair.
— from Judith of the Plains by Marie Manning

That is why an iron bridge or [Pg 64] fence must be kept painted to protect it from the moisture in the air.
— from Diggers in the Earth by Eva March Tappan

But when thou shalt be slain by king Pushkaráksha, thou shalt be released from thy curse.
— from The Kathá Sarit Ságara; or, Ocean of the Streams of Story by active 11th century Somadeva Bhatta

"Ringiringi" quickly learned the art of setting snares of flax or cabbage-tree leaf with cunning slip-loops in the branches of the fruit-laden miro ; in a clump of these pines he sometimes caught in a single day as many as three hundred or four hundred birds— kaka parrots, tui , and pigeon—for the forests were alive with feathered creatures, and in the autumn time, when the wild fruits were ripe and abundant, they were to be taken with little trouble; the noisy kaka parrot was the most easily lured of all.
— from The adventures of Kimble Bent: A story of wild life in the New Zealand bush by James Cowan

Important facts concerning the land forces of the enemy, including his land-based aviation, will be known, probably, to a lesser extent than in the case of the naval forces.
— from Sound Military Decision by Naval War College (U.S.)

Both knights proceeded to Naples and made their appearance on the appointed day.
— from The Story of Majorca and Minorca by Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir