kampanti a dressed elaborately, esp.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
It was no consolation to Ching to know, as did everyone else in the yacht, that Willatopy had swum in these Straits before he could walk, and had sailed them before he could talk.
— from Madame Gilbert's Cannibal by Bennet Copplestone
Wangenheim knew, as did everybody else, that, in case the French and English captured Constantinople, the Turks would vent their rage not mainly against the Entente, but against the Germans who had enticed them into the war.
— from Secrets of the Bosphorus by Henry Morgenthau
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