" Ua taparahi Kaina ia Abela (Cain killed Abel)....
— from Faery Lands of the South Seas by James Norman Hall

th’ stairs when yo’ wer prayin’ yesterday, an’ oh, Mr. Black, it wor’ a tussle, but aw couldna keep it, aw couldna keep it after that.”
— from Tom Pinder, Foundling: A Story of the Holmfirth Flood by D. F. E. Sykes

The earl is a worthy peer, and the king is a courteous king.”
— from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock

He also read to both of us the Gospels and Mezeray’s HISTORY OF FRANCE, which I did not know as an adopted Frenchwoman ought to know it, and Cecile knew not at all; nay, the nuns had scarcely taught her anything, even about religion, nor the foundations of the faith.
— from Stray Pearls: Memoirs of Margaret De Ribaumont, Viscountess of Bellaise by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

A granny knot is a common knot, tied with two simple thumb knots.
— from Warren Commission (04 of 26): Hearings Vol. IV (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

The groom knew it, the keeper knew it, they all knew it, and Charles knew they knew it; but what cared he?—all the world might know it.
— from Ravenshoe by Henry Kingsley

The effigy of a knight in Ash Church, Kent ( Fig. 16 ), elucidates this mystery and shows, through openings of the jupon, horizontal plates or splints riveted together.
— from Armour & Weapons by Charles John Ffoulkes

Ua taparahi Kaina ia Abela (Cain killed Abel)....
— from Faery Lands of the South Seas by James Norman Hall