["Keeping a body unburied for a considerable time is called khng koan , 'to conceal or store away a coffin,' or thîng koan , 'to detain a coffin.'
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

‘Oh, uncle, I am so glad to see you,’ said Mrs. Kenwigs, kissing the collector affectionately on both cheeks.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

And then men saw him, “red as the rising sun from spur to plume,” lift up his sword, and, kneeling, kiss the cross of it; and after, rising to his feet, set might and main with all his fellowship upon the foe, till, as a troop of lions roaring for their prey, they drove them like a scattered herd along the plains, and cut them down till they could cut no more for weariness.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

ê ouchi kai kata touto chrêsimon epistasthai, tini men katastasei sômatos hepetai pleiôn autês hê genesis, tini d' elattôn?
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

We must to France together; why the devil should we keep knives to cut one another's throats?
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Ang katugnaw mingkuyánap sa tibuuk kung kalawásan, The cold spread throughout my body.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

This hath been the principal seat and palace of all the kings of England since the Conquest; for here have they in the great hall kept their feasts of coronation especially, and other solemn feasts, as at Christmas and such like, most commonly: for proof whereof, I find recorded, that in the year 1236, and the 20th of Henry, III., on the 29th of December, William de Haverhull, the king’s treasurer, is commanded, that upon the day of circumcision of our Lord, he caused six thousand poor people to be fed at Westminster, for the state of the king, the queen, and their children; the weak and aged to be placed in the great hall and in the lesser; those that were most strong, and in reasonable plight, in the king’s chamber; the children in the queen’s; and when the king knoweth the charge, he would allow it in the accounts.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

[The KING kisses the child]
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Our farmers, you know, keep the cows in enclosed meadows, and supply them with hay and turnips when the grass fails.
— from The Nursery, Number 164 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers by Various

During his imprisonment General Carr besieged his castle, the only stronghold which still held out for the King; killed the commander, who exposed himself on the ramparts, set fire to the castle, and razed its walls to the ground.
— from History of the Mackenzies, with genealogies of the principal families of the name by Alexander Mackenzie

“Well,” said Rollo, with a tone of satisfaction, “and the cabinet keeper keeps the cabinet, I suppose.”
— from Rollo's Museum by Jacob Abbott

“Kernertok knows the country up this way about as well as any man living, I reckon.
— from The Golden Boys Along the River Allagash by L. P. (Levi Parker) Wyman

Wei-wu-rh, Kara-Khānides known to Chinese as, 116 .
— from The Heart of Asia A history of Russian Turkestan and the Central Asian Khanates from the earliest times by Ross, E. Denison (Edward Denison), Sir

All pilgrims were sprinkled in like manner, who were constantly crowding in upon their hands and knees, kissing the cold marble, sobbing and bathing it with their tears.
— from Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Eliza R. (Eliza Roxey) Snow

Kinnison knew that combat officers did not wear hobnails, and usually carried binoculars.
— from Triplanetary by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith