kono miko ni mawosi-tamapi-si pourai no tama no eda wo pito-tu no tokoro ayamata-zu motite opasimas-eri nani wo motite to .kaku mawosu beki
this aristocrat DAT say-RESP-SPST Hōrai GEN jewel GEN branch ACC one-thing GEN place differ-NEG having come-STAT what ACC having that.this say ought
[He] has brought the branch with the jewels of Hōrai that [you] spoke to this lord about, with not a point of difference [in it]. Having what (as grounds) am [I] supposed to tell [him] this and that (as excuses)?’ (Taketori monogatari, Shinpen Zenshū, vol. 12, p. 29)