Whereto Guiscardo answered nothing but this, 'Love can far more than either you or I.' Tancred then commanded that he should be kept secretly under guard and in one of the chambers of the palace, and so was it done.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Such were the misfortunes that befell Darius in his lifetime; but after his death he received a royal burial; his children received from Alexander a princely rearing and education, just as if their father had still been king; and Alexander himself became his son-in-law.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

“No, I am not going to stay,” answered Anna, smiling, but in spite of her smile, both Korsunsky and the master of the house saw from her resolute tone that she would not stay.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Nay, 'tis too true; therefore he shall be king.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

It has sometimes been known in the north as the “snow-snake,” while to the early southern traders it was known as chunki or chungkey , a corruption of the Creek name.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

He enacted, that, in a time of scarcity, it should be sold at a price which had seldom been known in the most plentiful years; and that his own example might strengthen his laws, he sent into the market four hundred and twenty-two thousand modii , or measures, which were drawn by his order from the granaries of Hierapolis, of Chalcis, and even of Egypt.
— 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

'He shall be kept in the Stone Jug, Charley, like a gentleman.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Upon this the senate was irritated; and Antony informed them further, that it was for their advantage in the Parthian war that Herod should be king.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Having asked Malcolm if he should be known in his present dress, and Malcolm having replied he would, he said, 'Then I'll blacken my face with powder.'
— from Life of Johnson, Volume 5 Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774) by James Boswell

They were chased by hostile Indians for hundreds of miles, endured untold privations, perils and hunger, some being killed; and during all this time they were in an unexplored region where assistance could not be obtained.
— from Then and Now; or, Thirty-Six Years in the Rockies Personal Reminiscences of Some of the First Pioneers of the State of Montana by Robert Vaughn

That boy has since become known and honored by every comrade in Massachusetts.
— from Reminiscences of the Nineteenth Massachusetts Regiment by John G. B. (John Gregory Bishop) Adams

But since the crime that he had committed against Domenico, who loved him so, became known a short time after his death, it was with shameful obsequies that he was buried in S. Maria Nuova, where, at the age of fifty-six, the unhappy Domenico had also been buried.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 03 (of 10) Filarete and Simone to Mantegna by Giorgio Vasari

Had she been kept in ignorance of the accusation beneath which his flight had been made?
— from Under Two Flags by Ouida

(4) On John Black Tuley's land, on Meshach Creek, 6 miles northeast of Tompkinsville, two human skeletons were found in a small opening, which has since been known as the Bone Cave.
— from Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 by Gerard Fowke

The plantation folk were profoundly impressed, for it had soon become known that her black garb was not merely a thing of the surface.
— from Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches by Ruth McEnery Stuart

On his side, Bayezid kept the allegiance of the Serbians by giving them opportunities for winning booty in the raids against the Albanians, Dalmatians, and Hungarians, and by favouring the Orthodox Church.
— from The Foundation of the Ottoman Empire; a history of the Osmanlis up to the death of Bayezid I (1300-1403) by Herbert Adams Gibbons

He saw that evolution must have taken a long time to occur, and he supported the principle which has since become known as uniformitarianism.
— from Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, Nebraska by United States. National Park Service