Divorce is also recognised, and a man marrying a divorced woman has to pay twelve rupees, known as moganāltappu, or new husband’s fine.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

The King, a man of noble bearing and imposing stature, was dressed in plain silk, a jewelled crown reposing on his head.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

The human mind never rests contented with the knowledge and mastery of nature actually gained, but ever seeks to pass beyond and attain still greater power.
— from Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge

"Then he dies," and Gareth was about to slay the wounded knight when Lynette screamed and told him he ought not to think of killing a man of nobler birth than himself.
— from Tales from Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Mr. Matheson Lang was a brave figure as Hotspur ; but, after lately seeing that other keen actor, Mr. Owen Nares , in the part of a modern intellectual discussing the ethics of War, I could not quite get myself to believe in him as Prince Hal .
— from Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 25, 1914 by Various

They might forgive you for killing a Mexican of no great market value, but they ain't goin' to extend the right hand of fellowship to me after running off with their ringleader's mustang!
— from Gabriel Conroy by Bret Harte

The Jacobites abuse me terribly; their king accuses me of neglect, incapacity, and treachery; and Fortune pulls down the fabric she has built for me, in order to pelt me with the stones!"
— from Devereux — Volume 05 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

The first persons of the Gorkha family, of whom I have heard, were two brothers named Khancha and Mincha, or Nimcha, words altogether barbarous, and in no manner resembling the high sounding titles of the family of the sun, from whom the Pamars pretend to be descended.
— from An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal And of the Territories Annexed to this Dominion by the House of Gorkha by Francis Hamilton

My friend Strickland of the Police, who knows as much of natives of India as is good for any man, can bear witness to the facts of the case.
— from Life's Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People by Rudyard Kipling

Mr. Carrigan, in the lead, bearing a first-aid kit and many other necessities in the knapsack over which his blankets were strapped, strode along silently, ever on the alert for some wilderness creature that he might point out to his eager followers.
— from Camp Lenape on the Long Trail by Carl Saxon