kay nagpisakpisak ang bátà sa banyu, The floor got wet because the children were splashing around in the bathtub.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

There must be all sorts in the world; and though we may be all knights, there is a great difference between one and another; for the courtiers, without quitting their chambers, or the threshold of the court, range the world over by looking at a map, without its costing them a farthing, and without suffering heat or cold, hunger or thirst; but we, the true knights-errant, measure the whole earth with our own feet, exposed to the sun, to the cold, to the air, to the inclemencies of heaven, by day and night, on foot and on horseback; nor do we only know enemies in pictures, but in their own real shapes; and at all risks and on all occasions we attack them, without any regard to childish points or rules of single combat, whether one has or has not a shorter lance or sword, whether one carries relics or any secret contrivance about him, whether or not the sun is to be divided and portioned out, and other niceties of the sort that are observed in set combats of man to man, that you know nothing about, but I do.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

kwirpu n a body of police or military force.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Wà magkadimáu ang tabì kay nagkúpat ang bàbà
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Here people deal in ship's gear of all kinds, such as cables and sails, and here, too, are the places where oars are made, for the Phaeacians are not a nation of archers; they know nothing about bows and arrows, but are a sea-faring folk, and pride themselves on their masts, oars, and ships, with which they travel far over the sea.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

So long, this Gaelic fire, through its successive changes of colour and character, will blaze over the face of Europe, and afflict the scorch all men:—till it provoke all men; till it kindle another kind of fire, the Teutonic kind, namely; and be swallowed up, so to speak, in a day!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Isabel of course knew nothing about bills; but even as a child she thought her grandmother’s home romantic.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

Kumbinasiyunun nímu ang bilin ug sugang palungpálung, Rig the nativity scene up with blinking lights.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

For I am here, a free hidalgo of Spain, knowing no authority but the king's will and mine own; a neophyte (and, as I may add, a knight by right, though unsworn,) of the illustrious order of San Juan, bearing the instructions of his most eminent highness, the Grand Master, to a vowed knight, and therefore liable to the command of no other man, save only, as before excepted, the king; and he who thinks to hinder me in my passage, besides provoking the wrath of the aforesaid privileged order, must, as I said before, do it under the peril of mine own sword."
— from Calavar; or, The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico by Robert Montgomery Bird

And to this day the frog in the well knows not and believes not in the "great ocean.
— from Japanese Fairy World Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan by William Elliot Griffis

He declared that people at home knew nothing about boys, and made an uproar about nothing.
— from The Young Step-Mother; Or, A Chronicle of Mistakes by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Not for yet a little while—for we see Kitty North all by himself in the heart of it, a boy apparently about the age of twelve, and happy as the day is long, though it is the Longest Day in all the year.
— from Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 1 by John Wilson

Dame, know now and be persuaded, that she, whom I serve, is so rich in state,
— from French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France by Marie, de France, active 12th century

Oh who, that had seen him thus; which of his most mortal enemies, that had viewed the royal youth, adorned with all the charms of beauty, heaven ever distributed to man; born great, and but now adored by all the crowding world with hat and knee; now abandoned by all, but one kind trembling boy weeping by his side, while the illustrious hero lay gazing with melancholy weeping eyes, at those stars that had lately been so cruel to him; sighing out his great soul to the winds, that whistled round his uncovered head; breathing his griefs as silently as the sad fatal night passed away; where nothing in nature seemed to pity him, but the poor wretched youth that kneeled by him, and the sighing air: I say, who that beheld this, would not have scorned the world, and all its fickle worshippers?
— from Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister by Aphra Behn

And, again, is it not an extreme absurdity that he should suppose another thing to be this, and this to be another thing;—that, having knowledge present with him in his mind, he should still know nothing and be ignorant of all things?—you might as well argue that ignorance may make a man know, and blindness make him see, as that knowledge can make him ignorant.
— from Theaetetus by Plato

Political change it has known, normal and beneficent; land purchase came to Ulster as a by-product of what the rest of Ireland endured in torment, and agony, and self-mutilation.
— from Irish Books and Irish People by Stephen Lucius Gwynn