[ 186 ] Then I saw an executioner take a knife and drive a hole through the tongues of the offenders, pass an iron chain through each, and hang them to the pillar so that they dangled by their tongues several feet from the ground.
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

La viro trinkis akvon, kaj ankaŭ donis akvon al sia kamelo.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

The whole valley was a vast necropolis for the ancient kings and druids, and on both sides one sees the remains of a remote antiquity, especially at New Grange where one finds a tumulus covering some two acres.
— from Wanderings in Ireland by Michael Myers Shoemaker

He had brought Manchester goods—cottons, and cloths, and ribbons; and also other merchandise from Birmingham, such as carpenters’ tools, and knives and daggers, and swords and pistols and guns, to give in exchange for the productions of the country.
— from Jack Buntline by William Henry Giles Kingston

They were talking about Kennedy, and, during a lull in the music, I overheard him asking her just what Craig had done.
— from The Treasure-Train by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

But these were never in use at the present time and kept always darkened, as a household symbol that all gayety and pleasure had vanished from the homes of Germany.
— from The Red Cross Girls with Pershing to Victory by Margaret Vandercook

It was as a vassal that Ahaz presented himself to the Assyrian king at Damascus, and he brought back religious innovations (2 Kings xvi.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

"Get into a shadow, then, and keep as dry as you can," ordered Warrington.
— from The Winds of the World by Talbot Mundy

The native brethren entered heartily into the preparations, and with the assistance of the others, they soon had the animals killed and dressed, and in the cooking kettles.
— from South and South Central Africa A record of fifteen years' missionary labors among primitive peoples by Hannah Frances Davidson

Also a pranke, a feat, a part, a tricke, a knacke, a deuise, a slight, a conceite, a drift or ayme at a thing.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio