[Pg 283] when he had lost his sceptre; that he who had been a king, and lived at ease during the first part of his time, should become a laborious workman whilst his son occupied the throne.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

So I told him to his teeth he did like a knave, and so he did, and went with him to the Scrivener at Bedlam, and there found how it came to pass, viz., that he had lost, or pretends to have lost, the true original, and that so he was forced to take this course; but a knave, at least a man that values not what he swears to, I perceive he is.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

For howsoever bad the devil can be in fustian or smock-frock (and he can be very bad in both), he is a more designing, callous, and intolerable devil when he sticks a pin in his shirt-front, calls himself a gentleman, backs a card or colour, plays a game or so of billiards, and knows a little about bills and promissory notes than in any other form he wears.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

On an auspicious day—a Tuesday before the crescent moon—a priest of the Devvē temple sets out several hours before dawn with five or seven kinds of grain in a basket and a sickle, accompanied by a Kurumba, and leading a pair of bullocks with a plough.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

[Aleksandr BUKHVOSTOV, Leonid LEMESHONAK]; Belarusian Popular Front or BPF [Vintsyuk VYACHORKA]; Belarusian Social-Democratic Gramada [Stanislav SHUSHKEVICH]; Belarusian Social Democratic Party Hramada (People's Assembly) or BSDPH [Aleksandr KOZULIN; Anatoliy LEVKOVICH, acting]; Green Party [Oleg GROMYKO]; Party of Freedom and Progress (unregistered)
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

And all the dolls thought so too, for already they loved Raggedy Andy's happy smile and knew he would prove to be as kindly and lovable as Raggedy Ann.
— from Raggedy Andy Stories Introducing the Little Rag Brother of Raggedy Ann by Johnny Gruelle

His hair was like a yellow fleece, His eyes were black and kind, And like a nodding, gilded plume His tail stuck up behind.
— from John Smith, U.S.A. by Eugene Field

And we kissed and laughed and packed a basket, and kissed and laughed again for good-by.
— from The Melting of Molly by Maria Thompson Daviess

Chiefly perhaps that he was born to be a king, and lived, a weak king, in a strenuous time.
— from The Light That Lures by Percy James Brebner

I bought a knapsack, and, leaving all my good clothes behind me, started out with them on a week's walking trip through the Isle of Wight, getting back here only last night.
— from The Old Gray Homestead by Frances Parkinson Keyes

He had formerly been a kavass, and later a leader of twenty-five [254] horsemen; he had a light complexion, long fair moustache, and had also been employed as tax-collector; in him the Arabs concluded they had secured an influential man.
— from Fire and Sword in the Sudan A Personal Narrative of Fighting and Serving the Dervishes 1879-1895 by Slatin, Rudolf Carl, Freiherr von