Gilaknit ang íyang bág sa kawatan, A thief snatched her bag.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

There had been an oath, the nervous giggle of old Edward King, and then silence.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

He ordered, besides, that all those who had cases pending before the court of the King and the secular judges of the kingdom should be furnished with lay attorneys; though the chapters, as well as the abbeys and convents, were allowed to be represented by canons.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

A Grecian philosopher, who visited Constantinople soon after the death of Theodosius, published his liberal opinions concerning the duties of kings, and the state of the Roman republic.
— 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

Canon Atkinson told us of this lady who knew all these strange things, and of the Hart Hall “Hob” who worked so hard with his flail, and of many other curious folk who frequented the Yorkshire moors in olden days.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

As soon as he had recovered sufficiently to talk, we learned that the Apaches had made an attack on Canoa, and killed all the settlers.
— from Building a State in Apache Land by Charles D. (Charles Debrille) Poston

" "Indeed!" said I, more interested than I cared to own to myself, or to show to the fellow—"why, Andrew, you know all the secrets of this family.
— from Rob Roy — Volume 01 by Walter Scott

But she does not sing it often, because, as she says, "It all lies in such a low key; and to sing always in one place is hard on the voice."
— from Stars of the Opera A Description of Operas & a Series of Personal Interviews with Marcela Sembrich, Emma Eames, Emma Calvé, Lillian Nordica, Lilli Lehmann, Geraldine Farrar & Nellie Melba by Mabel Wagnalls

The maiden then returned to what concerned herself, and the knight and the squire approached their steeds as near hers as they possibly could, so as not to miss a word of what she might say.
— from The Cid Campeador: A Historical Romance by Antonio de Trueba

He held him afar from falsehood, to guile was he aye a foe; The lock and the seal of knighthood all too soon must we bury low.
— from Parzival: A Knightly Epic (vol. 1 of 2) by Wolfram, von Eschenbach, active 12th century

Facts of this kind are the simplest; their psychological mechanism is easy to penetrate; the associations of images are almost logical, and their dreamlike character is scarcely marked.
— from Metapsychical Phenomena: Methods and Observations by J. (Joseph) Maxwell

In the ancient days of the earth, before the deluge of the gods, the thrice great Hermes, who knew all the secrets of alchemy, engraved them upon an emerald table and placed it in a cave, which he sealed up.
— from The Pillar of Fire; or, Israel in Bondage by J. H. (Joseph Holt) Ingraham

Gardampe, Chevalier Abel de Bridiers de la, killed at the siege of Malta, 333 .
— from Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean: The grand period of the Moslem corsairs by E. Hamilton (Edward Hamilton) Currey