By that time I had become pretty familiar with the geography and the general resources of Kentucky.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Then he made Sir Key, High Steward of England, and Sir Badewaine of Britain, Constable, and Sir Ulfius, Chamberlain: and after this, with all his court and a great retinue of knights and armed men, he journeyed into Wales, and was crowned again in the old city of Caerleon-upon-Usk.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

Now as they talked thus it was told King Arthur that his sister, the Queen of Orkney, was come to the court with a great retinue of knights and ladies.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

[Taoism has been one of the great religions of Korea.
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

Sir William Petty intimated that it seemed by the scarcity and greater rate of knee timber that nature did not furnish crooked wood enough for building: wherefore he thought it would be fit to raise by art, so much of it in proportion, as to reduce it to an equal rate with strait timber” (Birch’s “History of the Royal Society,”)]
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

In his long reign of fifty-four years, the Barbarians of the southern provinces submitted to the laws and manners of China; and the ancient limits of the monarchy were enlarged, from the great river of Kiang, to the port of Canton.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Duncan of Chicago Giants, Ray of Kansas City Monarchs, Rodguez of Cincinnati Stars, Rojo of Bacharach Giants, Santop of Hilldale Quakers and Webster of Detroit Stars use the same kind of stickability in freezing onto hot balls as the white past masters in backstop, Schalk and O’Neill.
— from Colored girls and boys' inspiring United States history and a heart to heart talk about white folks by William Henry Harrison

Yet, as a countryman, he never affected to disregard those local predilections which identified him with the County of Ross, as the genuine representative of Kintail, possessing an influence which, being freely ceded and supported, became paramount and permanent in the county which he represented in the Commons House of Parliament, till he was called to the peerage on the 26th October, 1797, by the title of Lord Seaforth and Baron of Kintail, with limitation to heirs male of his body, and which he presided over as his Majesty's Lord-Lieutenant.
— from History of the Mackenzies, with genealogies of the principal families of the name by Alexander Mackenzie

[Pg 128] marriage, if he could get rid of Katharine; and the Cardinal smiled complaisantly at the prospect that all was going well for his plans.
— from The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History by Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp) Hume

We greatly regard our kinsman, but, between ourselves,” added Lady St. Jerome in a low voice, “it was supposed that he was attached to the American lady of whom you were speaking.”
— from Lothair by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Parties of tramps, called hakka , or ‘guests,’ roam over Kwangtung province, squatting on vacant places along the shores, away from the villages, and forming small clannish communities; as soon as they increase, occupying more and more of the land, they begin to commit petty depredations upon the crops of the inhabitants, and demand money for the [487] privilege of burying upon the unoccupied ground around them.
— from The Middle Kingdom, Volume 1 (of 2) A Survey of the Geography, Government, Literature, Social Life, Arts, and History of the Chinese Empire and its Inhabitants by S. Wells (Samuel Wells) Williams

By this I mean the specialist who has been developed in a normal manner, and who appreciates the greater relations of knowledge and life.
— from College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Paul Klapper

He had reported for orders to Gen. Robinson of Kearney’s division.
— from Personal Recollections of the War of 1861 As Private, Sergeant and Lieutenant in the Sixty-First Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry by Charles A. Fuller

Again, the table rangers of the Scottish song are Gabriel riders , otherwise known as Gabriel hounds or gabbe ratches in Derbyshire.
— from Comparative Studies in Nursery Rhymes by Lina Eckenstein

Strive, then, to practise the golden rule of kindness, in whatever station God has placed you.
— from Plain Words for Christ, Being a Series of Readings for Working Men by Reginald G. Dutton