All the old palm leaf, birch bark, and paper Sanskrit MSS. have been written with ink and a reed pen, usually called kalama (a term borrowed from the Greek kalamos ).
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

But Mr. Van Torp, who was a strong man, and had seen more than one affray in his ranching days, could not help thinking how uncommonly easy it would be to pick up Count Kralinsky and drop him overboard on a dark night next week, when the Lancashire Lass would be doing twenty-two knots, and there might be a little weather about to drown the splash.
— from The Diva's Ruby by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

And Henry the Eighth—there was a man who had evidently picked up considerable knowledge and who made considerable use of it.
— from The Choir Invisible by James Lane Allen

But the soul does possess universally certain knowledge, as for example the truths of mathematics and logic; hence the origin of these truths can not be empirical.
— from A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik