There is yet an unexplored region in Panchala; Kampilanagara its capital, and those cities established west of the Indus by the sons of Bajaswa.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

What Anthropophagi are nine of ten Of those who hold the kingdoms in control Were things but only call'd by their right name, Caesar himself would be ashamed of fame.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Without all question, this was a Cumbrian kingdom: its capital was Dumbarton (a corruption of Dunbritton) which still exists as a royal borough, at the influx of the Clyde and Leven, ten miles below Glasgow.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

The most certain way of taking care of anything we value is to keep it clean: and certainly we value our kitchen fat.
— from Little Folks (September 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

"Now, don't ye take on so, shepherd, and sit down!" said Henery, with a deprecating peacefulness equal to anything of the kind in Christianity.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

An intent to oppose by force any officer of justice on his way to, in, or returning from the execution of the duty of arresting, keeping in custody, or imprisoning any person whom he is lawfully entitled to arrest, keep in custody, or imprison, or the duty of keeping the peace or dispersing an unlawful assembly, provided that the offender has notice that the person killed is such an officer so employed.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Felix darted forward, and with supernatural force tore me from his father, to whose knees I clung, in a transport of fury, he dashed me to the ground and struck me violently with a stick.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

But that thing, be it of the lowest and most earthly kind, is certainly itself good, since it is a nature and being, with a form and rank of its own in its own kind and order.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

As for my dinner, I consider it an imposition to ask any friend, and not give him the best my cook and cellar can furnish; and you may expect whenever you do come, to find a notice over my door, 'hot joints every day!'" "But it was the society of your house, and not the dinner, to which my agreeable anticipations were directed; and there, you know, I cannot be disappointed!
— from Modern Flirtations: A Novel by Catherine Sinclair

This growth is kept well groomed by the gale-flung sand, which clips persistent twigs and keeps it closely trimmed into an enormous bristle brush.
— from The Rocky Mountain Wonderland by Enos A. Mills

“I know I can’t.
— from The Willoughby Captains by Talbot Baines Reed

"That," interposed Kirkwood, "is completely understood."
— from The Black Bag by Louis Joseph Vance

Mr. Layard informs me that most of the known breeds are kept in Ceylon.
— from The Ornithology of Shakespeare Critically examined, explained and illustrated by James Edmund Harting

As for teaching the child, I knew I could do that as well as the girls who are marking time until they marry, or the decayed ladies who employ their declining years and intellects that way.
— from Miss Maitland, Private Secretary by Geraldine Bonner

"I knew I couldn't play without making a f-fool of myself.
— from The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point; Or a Wreck and a Rescue by Laura Lee Hope

The bill advanced to its second reading by a majority vote of thirty-three, but it was killed in committee by Mr. Gladstone's peremptory orders.
— from My Own Story by Emmeline Pankhurst

Evidently he was to be kept in confinement with a view to quickening his resolution.
— from In Clive's Command: A Story of the Fight for India by Herbert Strang