He helped Robert FitzWilliam to capture London and compel King John to sign Magna Charta.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

In the afternoon we went out for a walk in the Shinsai-bashi Suji, which is the principal street of the city, preceded by a small band of one-sworded men, who emitted a cry like a crow— kau, kau —to warn the people out of the way.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

[Rom. 8:28] Nevertheless, since but few know this glory of baptism and the blessedness of Christian liberty, and cannot know them because of the tyranny of the pope, I for one will clear my skirts and salve my conscience by bringing this charge against the pope and all his papists: Unless they will abolish their laws and traditions, and restore to Christ's churches their liberty and have it taught among them, they are guilty of all the souls that perish under this miserable captivity, and the papacy is of a truth the kingdom of Babylon, yea, of very Antichrist!
— from Works of Martin Luther, with Introductions and Notes (Volume II) by Martin Luther

The "account of the creation of the world according to Hawaiian tradition" is said to celebrate Lonoikamakahiki, also called Kaiimamao, who was the father of Kalaniopuu, king of Hawaii at the time of Cook's visit.
— from The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai by S. N. Haleole

Buteau, having met his father near the church, began to cry like a calf, kneeling down on the ground in front of the old man, and asking pardon of him for all his previous misconduct.
— from The Soil (La terre): A Realistic Novel by Émile Zola

I am not afraid——" Edith turned her eyes to where the white crests of the mountains cut like a crumpled keel through a sea of infinite blue.
— from The Cow Puncher by Robert J. C. Stead

Minna could love a certain kind of man, one who could swamp her mockery with love.
— from Round the Corner Being the Life and Death of Francis Christopher Folyat, Bachelor of Divinity, and Father of a Large Family by Gilbert Cannan

The neighboring islands of Telos, Syme, Nisyros, Cos, Leros, and Calymna, known on the old charts as the Sporades, were conquered one after another and annexed to the island of Rhodes, thus coming under the governorship of the Grand Masters of the Knights.
— from The Story of Malta by Maturin Murray Ballou