In the month of November, To’uluwa went with his canoe on a small expedition across the sea to Kitava, and brought back a good haul of mwali (armshells).
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Usa ka tabal-ak kámay, A buri bag full of brown sugar.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Though born at Volterra, in Etruria, he was a Roman knight, allied both by blood and marriage to persons of the highest rank 954 .
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

The U. S. is in the war, and we have got Kut and Bagdad back—and I would not be surprised to see the Allies in Berlin by June—and the Russians, too, since they have got rid of the Czar.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

“The Vakutans have been in Kitava and brought back great numbers of mwali .”
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

First Lid, De, Cow, Ker, Doll, a fifth: Lidwell, Si Dedalus, Bob Cowley, Kernan and big Ben Dollard.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

I mixed him some oil and onion and kvass and bread broken up.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

they Continued in pursute of the largest party five miles further finding that there was not the Smallest Chance of overtakeing them, they returned to their Camp and packed up their baggage on their backs and Steared a N. E. course to the River Rochejhone which they Struck at pompys Tower, there they killed a Buffalow Bull and made a Canoe in the form and shape of the mandans & Ricares (the form of a bason) and made in the following manner.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

He was an amiable king and bewailed by the people.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

But the monster caught the woman by the wrist, pulled her over his knee, and bent back her head.
— from The Grey Man by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

Unless in wholly exceptional cases, when we were very hungry, I never killed anything but bucks.
— from Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt

It's a good livin' they make preachin', and I for one don't take no offense at a feller chargin' for his talk; not that he knows any more than you or me—'cause he can't know a blame bit more—but we've all got to live, an' the feller what talks has to live, too.
— from Bahama Bill, Mate of the Wrecking Sloop Sea-Horse by T. Jenkins (Thornton Jenkins) Hains

On page 3635 Kellogg swears positively that Rerdell did not keep any books, but a private expense-book and a route-book; and that he (Kellogg) never saw any other books; that he never saw a ledger or journal in red leather, kept by Rerdell.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

As interpreters or merchants, physicians or counselors, the Jews were known and beloved by the Chazar court, and they inspired the warlike king Bulan with a love of Judaism.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 3 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz

Nugent made an impertinent and buffoon speech, though not without argument, the tenour of which was to impeach professors of liberty, who, he said, (and which he surely could say on knowledge,) always became bankrupts to the public.
— from Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Second, Volume 2 (of 3) by Horace Walpole

CHAPTER XVI A COURTIER OF THE KING A better burden
— from The Thrall of Leif the Lucky: A Story of Viking Days by Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina) Liljencrantz

Many among those present knew Arthur Bastow by sight, and his name passed from mouth to mouth; but the usher called loudly for silence, and then the magistrates' clerk rose.
— from Colonel Thorndyke's Secret by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

The notes taken at the time were very scanty, and my recollections were confused, inasmuch as I was labouring under a constantly-recurring attack of sickness, which was only kept at bay by resolute endeavours not to give way; but which rendered observation and record, in addition to hunting and the usual toils of marching, impossible.
— from At Home with the Patagonians A Year's Wanderings over Untrodden Ground from the Straits of Magellan to the Rio Negro by George C. Musters