ka-un(→) 1 affix added to verbs which refer to personal feelings to form adjectives which mean ‘be on the verge of, feel that one is going to do and cannot keep himself from it.’
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Anakwanʻkĭ—the Delaware Indians; singular Akwanʻkĭ , a Cherokee attempt at Wapanaqkĭ , “Easterners,” the Algonquian name by which, in various corrupted forms, the Delawares are commonly known to the western tribes.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

You will remember, dear reader, about a romance by the Abbe Chiari, a satirical romance which Mr. Murray had given me, and in which I fared badly enough at the author’s hands I had small reason to be pleased with him, and I let him know my opinion in such wise that the abbe who dreaded a caning, kept upon his guard.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Pope Clement the Sixth, 4 the successor of Benedict, received them with hospitality and honor, acknowledged the innocence of their sovereign, excused his distress, applauded his magnanimity, and displayed a clear knowledge of the state and revolutions of the Greek empire, which he had imbibed from the honest accounts of a Savoyard lady, an attendant of the empress Anne.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

He bowed, with a happy mixture of dignity and courteous kindliness, and pursued his way.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Kayu Rampak, Kayu Sinang, Kayu Langkah Langkapuri, kayu tumboh di halaman Allah maka ia-itulah tumboh-nya; dan ampat chawang kayu itu, dan sa-chawang bernama Sajeratul Mentahar, dan sa-chawang bernama Taubi, dan sa-chawang nama Khaldi, dan sa-chawang bernama Nasrun ʿAlam,
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Do you want to see a dawg as CAN kill a rat?
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

But it being Twelfth Night, they had got the fiddler and mighty merry they were; and I above come not to them, but when I had done my business among my papers went to bed, leaving them dancing, and choosing King and Queene.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

A cat? How does a cat know when a mouse is near?
— from Daily Lesson Plans in English by Caroline Stearns Griffin

Daughter of Red Hugh, 151 ; slays Dithorba and compels Kimbay to wed her, 151 ; captures five sons of Dithorba, 151 , 152 ; forms an instance of the intermingling of the attributes of the Danaan with the human race, 152 ; a super-natural being, 178 ; goes to dwell with Crundchu, 178 ; her race against Ultonian horses, 179 ; gives birth to twins and curses the Ultonians, 180 ; her curse on men of Ulster, 203 - 221 ; the curse removed from men of Ulster, 222 Maeldūn.
— from Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston

Then she opens the door and calls, 'Kitty, kitty, kitty!'
— from The Wind in the Rose-Bush, and Other Stories of the Supernatural by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

The beautiful boy's sweet face fairly beamed with delight, and Charmian kissed him tenderly.
— from Cleopatra — Volume 06 by Georg Ebers

One day she was led by an accident into an oddly confidential dialogue with Gabriel about her difficulty It afforded her a little relief — of a dull and cheerless kind.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Edward’s eldest son, the Black Prince, defeated and captured King John near Poitiers (Sept. 19).
— from Outlines of English History from B.C. 55 to A.D. 1895 Arranged in Chronological Order by John Charles Curtis

At last he became desperate, and crying, "Kill you I will, even at the cost of my own life," he laid his head with the Wasp on it under the wheel of a passing waggon, and they both perished together.
— from Aesop's Fables; a new translation by Aesop

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— from A Day at Camp Killkare; Or, Aunt Jane and the Campfire Girls by Elsie Duncan Yale