From this position he would be able to fall back upon the Russian colony, which comprised a number of unimportant stockaded forts on the Bolshoya and Kamchatka rivers, and could also gain support from that control of the natives which was exercised from this point.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

This might be a kind remembrance of Monsieur the Cardinal.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Ignorance is bold, and knowledge reserved.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

deeply; ὄρθρου Βαθέως, deep in the morning , at early down, Lu. 24.1 L.G. Βασιλικός , ή, όν, of or belonging to a king, kingly, royal, regal; of a man , the officer or minister of a prince, a courtier, Jn. 4.46, 49; subject to a king, Ac. 12.20; befitting a king, royal, Ac. 12.21; met principal, chief, Ja. 2.4.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

“That is not a present befitting a king,” replied he.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Numa, though a private man and not even a Roman, was chosen by the Romans as their king; but Lykurgus from being a king reduced himself to a private station.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

The maid pled in his behalf and kept repeating: Why will you fight with a passion that to you is pleasure, Remembering not in whose lands you are taking your leisure?
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

How the children—perhaps because they had not yet grown quite away from the breast of the bounteous Mother—threw themselves face downward on her brown bosom with uncouth caresses, filling the air with their laughter; and how Miss Mary herself—felinely fastidious and intrenched as she was in the purity of spotless skirts, collar, and cuffs—forgot all, and ran like a crested quail at the head of her brood, until, romping, laughing, and panting, with a loosened braid of brown hair, a hat hanging by a knotted ribbon from her throat, she came suddenly and violently, in the heart of the forest, upon the luckless Sandy!
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

It was the humour of the grand little man to oblige royalty, the while he was moved by a keen regard for his own dignity.
— from Art in England: Notes and Studies by Dutton Cook

The barons and knights received the remonstrances of the sovereign pontiff with respect; but did not at all waver in the resolution they had formed.
— from The History of the Crusades (vol. 2 of 3) by J. Fr. (Joseph Fr.) Michaud

CHAPTER III The Week before the Battle Embarkation of Friendlies—The Shabluka Cataract—Our Delay at Rojan Island—First Glimpse of Omdurman—The Evening Ride from Hagir—The Joys of Good Health—Sudanese Wives—Importance of the "Drink Camel"—An Adventurous Greekling—Mr. Villiers' Bicycle—Um Teref Camp—Sudanese Music—The First Dervish—Scorpion v. the "Father of Spiders"—A Cavalry Reconnaissance—A Rainy Night—Within Twenty-five Miles of Omdurman—Deserted Villages—A Disappointing Capture—Seg-et-Taib—The Water Question—Corpses in the River—The Khalifa's Army in Sight—The Ridge of Kerreri—Sururab—Gunboats at Work—Troublesome Donkeys—Sniping—A Tropical Downpour spoils our Rest—Mr. Villiers and Myself stung by Scorpions—Chasing Hares on the March—Cavalry Scouts on Kerreri—Howitzers in Action—Skirmishing with the Khalifa's Cavalry—Waiting for the Dervish Advance—The Khalifa halts—The Evening before the Battle—The Perils of a Night Attack—False Alarms 105 CHAPTER IV The Battle of Omdurman A Comfortable Breakfast—All ready for the Dervishes—Egyptian Cavalry engage the Enemy—Gunboats to the Rescue—The Joy of Battle—Here they come!—A [xi] Splendid Spectacle—The Dervishes open Fire—The First Shell—A Dervish Battery—Effect of our Shell Fire—Wounded Men—Curious Tricks played by Bullets—Maxims at Work—A Dervish Cavalry Charge—Persistent Sharpshooters—The Army leaves the Zeriba—The Lancers' Charge—Mutilation of the Dead—Wounded Horses—Killing the Wounded Dervishes—Renewal of the Fight—Steadiness of the Sudanese and Egyptians—Final Repulse of the Enemy—Dreadful Effects of our Fire—Men falling out—We halt beside a Khor —Regimental Music—Escape of the Khalifa—Death of Hon.
— from The Downfall of the Dervishes; or, The Avenging of Gordon by Ernest Nathaniel Bennett

"What's the matter, can't you make your bed?" asked Katherine, remembering Carmen's helplessness in that line upon a former occasion.
— from The Camp Fire Girls at Camp Keewaydin; Or, Paddles Down by Hildegard G. Frey

Chet's reply was brief, and Kreiss' response was equally so.
— from Brood of the Dark Moon (A Sequel to "Dark Moon") by Charles Willard Diffin

We had now been at Kazé rather more than a month, and I thought Captain Burton would die if we did not make a move, so I begged him to allow me to assume the command pro tem.
— from What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke

But as Kant recognises that a transcendental ego, not in time, is presupposed in all consciousness of the empirical self, the question whether the predicate of existence is also applicable to the transcendental self cannot be altogether avoided, and is indeed referred to in B 277.
— from A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' by Norman Kemp Smith

Lay these hands down by my side, Let my face be bare; Bind a kerchief round the face, Smooth my hair.
— from Poems by Edward Dowden