Ever again, your devoted Child, Victoria R. Footnote 9: The Duchess of Kent died on the 16th of March.
— from The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 3, 1854-1861 by Queen of Great Britain Victoria

An hour later the Duke and Duchess of Kent drove off in her brother, Prince Leopold's, carriage to Claremont.
— from Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1 by Sarah Tytler

[231] [= A.D. 279], some lawless parties, in the department of Keih, dug open the grave of King Sëang of Wei [died B.C. 295] and found a number of bamboo tablets, written over, in the small seal character, with more than one hundred thousand words, which were deposited in the imperial library.”
— from Mythical Monsters by Charles Gould

They were all in the same deplorable condition, the upper rooms being rather the more miserable, inasmuch as none of the windows were glazed at all, and they had, therefore, only the alternative of utter darkness, or killing draughts of air, from the unsheltered casements.
— from Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation: 1838-1839 by Fanny Kemble

Among them was Cobham's new wife, Frances Howard, Countess dowager of Kildare, daughter of the Lord Admiral.
— from Sir Walter Ralegh: A Biography by W. (William) Stebbing

Does one know, does one ever know why a woman's face has suddenly the power of poison upon us?
— from Strong as Death by Guy de Maupassant

“And where is Morough, descendant of kings, Defeater of hundreds, the daringly brave, Who set but light store on jewels and rings, Who swam down the torrent and laughed at the wave, Where, oh Kincora?
— from Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland Being a Tourist's Guide to Its Most Beautiful Scenery & an Archæologist's Manual for Its Most Interesting Ruins by Thomas O’Neill Russell

The Duke of Kent died on the 26th of January, 1820, and George III.
— from Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton by Anonymous

The deepening of knowledge depends on the powers of intuition which express themselves in thinking (see page 90).
— from The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity A Modern Philosophy of Life Developed by Scientific Methods by Rudolf Steiner

The proper punishment for the Hohenzollerns, and the Hapsburgs, and the Mecklenburgs, and the Muckendorfs, and all such puppets and princelings, is that they should be made to work; and not made to work in the glittering and glorious sense, as generals and chiefs of staff, and legislators, and land-barons, but in the plain and humble part of laborers looking for a job; that they should carry a hod and wield a trowel and swing a pick and, at the day's end, be glad of a humble supper and a night's rest; that they should work, in short, as millions of poor emigrants out of Germany have worked for generations past; that there should be about them none of the prestige of fallen grandeur; that, if it were possible, by some trick of magic, or change of circumstance, the world should know them only as laboring men, with the dignity and divinity of kingship departed out of them; that, as such, they should stand or fall, live or starve, as best they might by the work of their own hands and brains.
— from The Hohenzollerns in America With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and Other Impossibilities by Stephen Leacock