It is the talk of all men that he had been the most gallant lenderman in Norway that any man then living could remember; and also he behaved the best towards us Icelanders of any chief since King Eystein the Elder's death.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

eis heauton synizanein kai dia touto katapiptein eis tên entos eurychôrian.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

Hepzibah knew enough to enable her to appreciate the circumstances (resulting from the second marriage of the girl's mother) which made it desirable for Phoebe to establish herself in another home.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Human sciences dissect everything to comprehend it, and kill everything to examine it.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

That preacher is very much my friend who can fix my attention a whole sermon through: in places of ceremony, where every one’s countenance is so starched, where I have seen the ladies keep even their eyes so fixed, I could never order it so, that some part or other of me did not lash out; so that though I was seated, I was never settled; and as to gesticulation, I am never without a switch in my hand, walking or riding.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

“Will you be kind enough to explain,” I said, “what you mean by ‘purposely so embalmed’?” “With great pleasure!” answered the Mummy, after surveying me leisurely through his eye-glass—for it was the first time I had ventured to address him a direct question.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

have {katapleontes es ton E}.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

Now by this way only is there a known entrance to Egypt: for from Phenicia to the borders of the city of Cadytis belongs to the Syrians 4 who are called of Palestine, and from Cadytis, which is a city I suppose not much less than Sardis, from this city the trading stations on the sea-coast as far as the city of Ienysos belong to the king of Arabia, and then from Ienysos again the country belongs to the Syrians as far as the Serbonian lake, along the side of which Mount Casion extends towards the Sea.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

“Would you be kind enough to escort me?” said she to me.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

She looked at him in astonishment, with the inquisitive gaze of women who wish to know everything, that eye which women have who are no longer very young,—in which a complex, and often roguish, curiosity is reflected, and she asked: “How so?”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Here is one, growing just outside my door—a blossom "known" even to every child, and certainly to every reader of the Round Table —the pretty bluets, or Houstonia, whose galaxy of white or blue stars tints whole spring meadows like a light snowfall.
— from Harper's Round Table, January 21, 1896 by Various

**** When he had reviewed his army, he gave his generals especial charge to preserve the life of Absalom; and with a policy that reflects honour upon his military knowledge, expected the enemy in the wood Ephraim:(5) a covert situation, being the most judicious that could be chosen, for a small army(6) to encounter one more numerous.
— from The Life of David; Or, The History of the Man After God's Own Heart by Anonymous

It was easy to see they were poor, but it was generally supposed that they had the species of limited means which wealth is so often kind enough to envy, with its old formula that the truly rich are those who [135] have nothing to keep up.
— from Diana Tempest, Volume I by Mary Cholmondeley

While it is not necessary to be educated in schools in order to gain knowledge, yet the schoolroom with all its limitations is usually the most economical and most efficient method of acquiring certain forms of knowledge essential to every successful man or woman.
— from The Young Farmer: Some Things He Should Know by Thomas Forsyth Hunt

Captain Wyngate was kind enough to explain why I had come.
— from The Wide World Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 128, November, 1908 by Various

"In what time he with the Danes troubled England with depredations we read that the Danes joined battle with the English thereby at Hock Norton, a place for no one thing more famous in old time than for the woeful slaughter of the English on that foughten field, under the reign of King Edward the Elder."
— from Rude Stone Monuments in All Countries: Their Age and Uses by James Fergusson

Hunted animals would have known enough to eat and hurry on.
— from Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders by Talbot Mundy

Scarcely had she said these words, when a monstrous woman, half-naked, and with a long staff in her hand, on the top of which was a cross, made her appearance; and placing herself right before the door, cried out so that you might have heard her for a mile, ‘Give me an alms for the glory of God!’ ‘Good woman,’ says I to her, ‘you will be kind enough to excuse me: all the preparation I had made for alms has been given away, for I have relieved thirteen unfortunates this blessed morning—so may the Virgin help ye, good woman!’ ‘Give me an alms,’ said the Beanvore, with a louder voice than before, ‘or it will be worse for you.’
— from Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery by George Borrow