Nagubut ang balay kay nagdúlà ang mga bátà, The house is in a mess because the children were playing in it.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Author's Note: A Bowie knife is a wide–bladed dagger that Americans are forever carrying around.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Iari nákù ang bátà kay akuy bantay, Bring the child over here and I’ll watch (him).
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Sir Henry Spelman informs us that, in addition to the two Kings of Arms for the two Heraldic provinces bounded north and south by the river Trent, there were also two provincial kings for the dominions of our Sovereign in France, styled Guyenne and Agincourt (omitting Aquitaine and Anjou , which were certainly in being at the same time), and another for Ireland by that name, altered by King Edward VI.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

I did not stay for the conclusion of the performance; but while I did stay, there was not a bull killed in the prescribed way.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Secondly, Hereby you may know what infinite knowledge Adam had in his innocence, that by looking upon a creature, he was able to give it a name according to its nature; and by knowing that, thou mayest know how great thy fall was and be humbled for it even in this respect, because hereby thou art so ignorant.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Gitampu námù ang basíyung káha sa sigarilyu, We sent the empty cigarette packs as entries to the contest.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Also there liveth not a bigger knight than he is one, and he shall hereafter do you right good service; and his name is Pellinore, and he shall have two sons that shall be passing good men; save one they shall have no fellow of prowess and of good living, and their names shall be Percivale of Wales and Lamerake of Wales, and he shall tell you the name of your own son, begotten of your sister, that shall be the destruction of all this realm.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Nakaikyas ang bábuy kay tiil ray ákung hingsakmalan, The pig got away because I only got hold of its feet.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Naghusà ang bátà kay gihilantan, The child is restless because he has a fever.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

; the heathen origin of, 305 Chu-en-aten, name assumed by King Amenophis IV., ii.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 06 of 12) by James George Frazer

Bohemund, by means of a spy who had embraced the Christian religion, and to whom he had given his own name at baptism, kept up a daily communication with this captain, and made him the most magnificent promises of reward, if he would deliver up his post to the Christian knights.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 by Charles Mackay

Towards our left, Marshal Macdonald and General Sebastiani were holding the ground between Probstheyda and Sttteritz, in spite of numerous attacks by Klenau's Austrians and the Russians of Doctoroff, when they were assailed by a charge of more than 20,000 Cossacks and Baskirs, the efforts of the latter being directed mainly at Sebastiani's cavalry.
— from The Memoirs of General Baron de Marbot by Marbot, Jean-Baptiste-Antoine-Marcelin, baron de

And we must always keep in mind that the men who might have defended these wayfarers had nearly all been killed or forced into the army as workmen, and that the exiles themselves had been systematically deprived of all weapons before the journey began.
— from Secrets of the Bosphorus by Henry Morgenthau

He has long been wont to feel bashful about his former religion; as if it were an old attachment having consequences which he did not abandon but kept in decent privacy, his avowed objects and actual position being incompatible with their public acknowledgment.
— from Impressions of Theophrastus Such by George Eliot

Naggamu ang bátà kay gibutdan sa tiyan, The baby is restless because it has gas pains.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

"No; it's not a bit kind," responded George, "for I'm being paid for it.
— from The Story of the White-Rock Cove by Anonymous

"Though it would not always be kings," he said.
— from The Lost Prince by Frances Hodgson Burnett