Under the heading of "Higher Mysteries" Weishaupt writes: The man who is good for nothing better remains a Scottish Knight.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Each sort of bird represented a special kind of crop cultivated by the Indians: the wild goose stood for the maize, the wild swan for the gourds, and the wild duck for the beans.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

It is essential, then, to human society; and it should, therefore, be ranked above speculative knowledge.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

since he neither wore on helm or shield The golden symbol of his kinglihood, But rode a simple knight among his knights, And many of these in richer arms than he, She saw him not, or marked not, if she saw, One among many, though his face was bare.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

The rule which prohibited the transmission through the Post, as Patterns, of articles of cutlery, &c., has been rescinded; and scissors, knives, razors, forks, steel pens, nails, keys, watch machinery, metal tubing, pieces of metal or ore and such like articles, are now allowed to be forwarded by the Post as Samples, provided they be packed and guarded in so secure a manner as to afford complete protection to the contents of the Mail Bags, and to the persons of the Officers of the Post Office.
— from List of Post Offices in Canada, with the Names of the Postmasters ... 1866 by Canada. Post Office Department

There's Mrs. Pimble and Mrs. Lawson now, both rich and splendid, keep their carriages and servants, but they are not above speaking to common people.
— from Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems by Effie Afton

Then the elder woman's face flushed a burning red, and she knew at once what the girl had suspected.
— from The Portion of Labor by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

[60] It is Froebel’s peculiarity that he brings his philosophical conceptions into the veriest details, and so even in speaking of how the mother may make a ball represent a springing kitten, etc., and saying that to the child the ball is “the uniting object,” yet, he says, considering the plays as proceeding from the child (vom Kinde aus), “all activity, though mediated (vermittelt) by the ball, proceeds definitely from the child, and though going through the ball, refers back again to the child, who is himself a unit.”
— from Froebel as a pioneer in modern psychology by E. R. (Elsie Riach) Murray

For 110 which it folweth, that this nis noon opinioun, but rather a stedefast knowinge, y-strengthed by soothnesse, that, whanne that god knoweth anything to be, he ne unwot nat that thilke thing wanteth necessitee to be; this is to seyn, that, whan that god knoweth any thing to bityde, he wot wel that it ne hath no necessitee to bityde.
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 2 (of 7) — Boethius and Troilus by Geoffrey Chaucer

It was suggested that the works might be reduced and so kept with fewer men.
— from The Great Civil War in Lancashire (1642-1651) by Ernest Broxap

The Bohemian set sail and was out of the bay before Reine and Stephanette knew that he had returned.
— from The Knight of Malta by Eugène Sue

While Stoics and Epicureans alike sought peace of mind through knowledge of the world and its laws, they on the contrary maintained that this same peace of mind could only be attained by renouncing all such knowledge.
— from The Formation of Christendom, Volume II by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

and they floated up one above the other, and stretched themselves out quite long, and arched their bodies very gracefully; and as Annie turned her face away from where the sun was setting, she saw in the opposite direction a beautiful rainbow, and she knew why the fairies had been called away.
— from St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, January 1878, No. 3 by Various

Whereat Jacqueline's dimples became riotous, and she kept silence with difficulty.
— from Kildares of Storm by Eleanor Mercein Kelly