"He shouldn't have been allowed to move about so freely," said the student, as if he wanted to give the woman an explanation for K.'s insults, "that was a mistake.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

but she could ever fully know what he was.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

We were told that letters were expected from Kiôto in a day or two fixing a date for the audience, so that the ministers could go up one day, see the Mikado on the next, and come down again, thus being absent only three days from Ozaka.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

Li estis feliĉa kaj diris
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

It was as the reward of treason that Euthycrates roofed his house with Macedonian wood, as Demosthenes tells us; and that Philocrates got a large sum of money, and spent it on women and fish; and it was for betraying Eretria that Euphorbus and Philagrus got an estate from king Philip.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

We therefore waited until the arrival of some more representative officials named Sano and Satomi, who were expected from Kanazawa, the capital of this daimiate.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

Read any thirty or forty pages of pamphlets advocating peace in Europe and see how many of them praise the old Popes or Emperors for keeping the peace in Europe.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

kamáug 1 n a mild cuss word, euphemism for kamatay , expressing disgust or anger over s.t. or
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The existing Free Kirk place of worship, known as Knox Church, stands on land given by Mr. Ketchum, and on a site previously occupied by a long oblong
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

Girls admire men with broad chests, square shoulders, erect form, keen bright eyes, hard muscles and undoubted vigor.
— from Searchlights on Health: The Science of Eugenics by B. G. (Benjamin Grant) Jefferis

No fur is, of course, in season at this time of year, and so there was no excuse for killing muskrats for the pelts.
— from The Long Labrador Trail by Dillon Wallace

But it explained enough for King's present purpose, and he wasted no time on riders to the problem.
— from King--of the Khyber Rifles: A Romance of Adventure by Talbot Mundy

Babu refers to one of his early friends, Khwaja ka Mulai, as conspicuous for his skill in falconry and his knowledge of Yadageri , or the science of inducing rain and snow by means of enchantment.
— from Curiosities of Superstition, and Sketches of Some Unrevealed Religions by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams

A suppressed exclamation from Kennedy caused me to look.
— from The Poisoned Pen by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

Waterways: 417 km Pipelines: crude oil 110 km; petroleum products 578 km; natural gas 700 km Ports and harbors: Abenra, Alborg, Arhus, Copenhagen, Esbjerg, Fredericia, Kolding, Odense, Roenne (Bornholm), Vejle Merchant marine: total: 301 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 6,258,959 GRT/8,143,520
— from The 2002 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

In this fashion, while his regiment thinned out by disease, famine, fighting, and the midnight knife, Seti came on to Dongola, to Berber, to Khartoum; and he grinned with satisfaction when he heard that they would make even for Kordofan.
— from Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Volume 1 by Gilbert Parker

[Irritably.] It won't kill the shareholders to miss a dividend or two; I don't see that that's reason enough for knuckling under.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

Sum tho, thar cite entre forto kepe, Befor the portis delvis trynschis deip; Sum to the ȝettis weltis weghty stonys, 25 And sum gret jestis and sillys for the nonys: The bas trumpet with a bludy sovn The syng of batell blew our all the tovn.
— from The Æneid of Virgil Translated Into Scottish Verse. Volumes 1 & 2 by Virgil