Care was taken to instruct him in all the branches of useful knowledge cultivated at that period, and to give him those mental and personal accomplishments deemed proper for a prince.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

The Ecclesiastiques likewise, in whose Dominions soever they be found, acknowledge but one Universall King, the Pope.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Beware of useless kisses lavished in intimacy.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Both of us know it.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

Church and Nares take uneath to mean "beneath" or "underneath"; Kitchin conjectures "almost."
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

Hadding was conquered and fled to Helsingland, where, while washing in the cold sea-water his body which was scorched with heat, he attacked and cut down with many blows a beast of unknown kind, and having killed it had it carried into camp.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

The kind soul promised, and we both of us kissed the keyhole with the greatest affection—I patted it with my hand, I recollect, as if it had been her honest face—and parted.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Chowbok pretended to expect his grog at once, though we both of us knew very well what the other was after, and that we were each playing against the other, the one for grog the other for information.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

A BOOK OF UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE.
— from The Reason Why A Careful Collection of Many Hundreds of Reasons for Things Which, Though Generally Believed, Are Imperfectly Understood by Robert Kemp Philp

The baldheaded, officious undertaker kept moving nervously about, intent upon the ritual of his trade.
— from Windy McPherson's Son by Sherwood Anderson

In the mood of the men tragedy was inevitable unless both of us kept cool.
— from Tropic Days by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield

Thus we would prospect as much of the country as possible in a sort of fan, both of us keeping our eyes open for a compass carved on a rock.
— from Pieces of Eight Being the Authentic Narrative of a Treasure Discovered in the Bahama Islands in the Year 1903 by Richard Le Gallienne

We both of us know that I can hold Lorimer, when nobody else can.
— from The Dominant Strain by Anna Chapin Ray

“All the better for both of us, Kid.
— from Roast Beef, Medium: The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney by Edna Ferber

We both of us know the world; and Heaven can bear witness that we should not be haunted by any uneasy hankering after what has brought us such a heartache.
— from The Young Duke by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

In company with my slender purse, and bunch of useless keys, a pencil, and a small memorandum-book, they remained perdu until that moment of accidental discovery arrived which was to test their value and place it "far above that of rubies."
— from Sea and Shore A Sequel to "Miriam's Memoirs" by Catherine A. (Catherine Ann) Warfield

We both of us knew more or less the direction we were to take, but having got out of the route between the forts, the country immediately around was strange to us.
— from Snow Shoes and Canoes Or, The Early Days of a Fur-Trader in the Hudson Bay Territory by William Henry Giles Kingston