Still Captain Culler broke a window in the Kildare street club with a slog to square leg.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Then they stop at Tukwaukwa or Kavataria, and from there walk inland to Kiriwina, where they receive presents (see Map IV , p. 50).
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

When she went into the kitchen to her work, and began to rake the ashes, the cook said, ‘Let that alone till the morning, and heat the king’s soup; I should like to run up now and give a peep: but take care you don’t let a hair fall into it, or you will run a chance of never eating again.’
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

King Solve's speech was such that King Audbjorn promised his help, and gathered a great force together and went with it to King Arnvid, and they had a great army.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Trobrianders on long visits in the Amphletts. II— Sociology of the Kula : 1. sociological limitations to participation in the Kula; 2. relation of partnership; 3. entering the Kula relationship; 4. participation of women in the Kula. III— The Natives of the Amphletts : their industries and trade; pottery; importing the clay; technology of pot-making; commercial relations with the surrounding districts.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

At that moment there walked into the kitchen a soldier who had been bringing us twice a week parcels of tea, French bread and game, which smelt of scent, from some unknown giver.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I asked, looking at her fixedly, trembling with impatience to know what she was thinking.
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He told us then how one afternoon at Triers, when the Emperor was taken up with the Circensian games, he and three others, his companions, went out to walk in gardens near the city walls, and there as they happened to walk in pairs, one went apart with him, and the other two wandered by themselves; and these, in their wanderings, lighted upon a certain cottage, inhabited by certain of Thy servants, poor in spirit, of whom is the kingdom of heaven, and there they found a little book containing the life of Antony.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

If a husband or wife wound one another with intent to kill, the penalty which is inflicted upon them shall be perpetual exile; and if they have young children, the guardians shall take care of them and administer their property as if they were orphans.
— from Laws by Plato

Devotional habits , horses weak in the knees, and apt to stumble and fall, are said to have these.— Stable.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

No man can know by Discourse, that this, or that, is, has been, or will be; which is to know absolutely: but onely, that if This be, That is; if This has been, That has been; if This shall be, That shall be: which is to know conditionally; and that not the consequence of one thing to another; but of one name of a thing, to another name of the same thing.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Where is the king now?"
— from The Children of the New Forest by Frederick Marryat

Morag drew a ball of cotton across the floor, and the cats that were in the kitchen gave no sign of seeing it.
— from The King of Ireland's Son by Padraic Colum

What, not satisfied yet? 75 I wonder if they know the care you take.
— from Judith Shakespeare: Her love affairs and other adventures by William Black

"Who is the King's Grace?" returned Mr. Strangeways, putting his hands in his pockets, with as little concern about possible spies or enemies as though he had lived in the nineteenth century.
— from Red and White: A Tale of the Wars of the Roses by Emily Sarah Holt

How was I to know?— me fresh from London !"
— from Sweethearts at Home by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

Lord Thurlow confessed that he did not know what "working in the keels" meant.
— from The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore by J. R. (John Robert) Hutchinson

Those who worked in the kitchen made the same things as the other girls had made before, and, when everybody was done, it was astonishing how many, many boxes they had.
— from The Fun of Cooking: A Story for Girls and Boys by Caroline French Benton

"If, as I have, you also doe, Vertue attired in woman see, And dare love that, and say so too, And forget the He and She; And if this love, though placed so, From prophane men you hide, Which will no faith on this bestow, Or, if they doe, deride: Then you have done a braver thing Than all the Worthies did, And a braver thence will spring, Which is, to keep that hid.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

A peasant woman in the kitchen of the hermitage was cooking something in a casserole over a tiny fire, but she left it civilly to conduct the stranger through to the chapel adjoining.
— from Latter-Day Sweethearts by Harrison, Burton, Mrs.