Accompanied by his four brothers, he passed the Euphrates; the Turkish camp was soon seated in the neighborhood of Kutaieh in Phrygia; and his flying cavalry laid waste the country as far as the Hellespont and the Black Sea.
— 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

Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark: “Sola sapientia in se tota conversa est.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

He remained there the winter and all the summer (A.D. 1137), and had many people with him; but King Inge proceeded against him with all his forces, and they met at a place called Mynne.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

51 Accompanied by his four brothers, he passed the Euphrates; the Turkish camp was soon seated in the neighborhood of Kutaieh in Phrygia; and his flying cavalry laid waste the country as far as the Hellespont and the Black Sea.
— 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

She kissed it, Philip, and said (oh, so earnestly!), "I will always wear white as long as I live.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

“I know it perfectly, although I am astonished that you know it.”
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Fin then returned to Throndhjem, and the disturbance and enmity was quashed, so that the king could retain his kingdom in peace at home; and the league was broken which Eindride's relations had made among themselves for opposing King Harald. H2 anchor 49.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

As we pass'd thro' New York, I had there shown my project to Mr. James Alexander and Mr. Kennedy, two gentlemen of great knowledge in public affairs, and, being fortified by their approbation, I ventur'd to lay it before the Congress.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

He was a little inclined to resist this change of plan at the first, but was soon kissed into pleasantness, and then the nurse was despatched to the servants' hall, and Christabel had her boy to herself, and ministered to him and amused him for the space of an hour despite an aching heart.
— from Mount Royal: A Novel. Volume 3 of 3 by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

He was apparently the only friend they knew in Pretoria, and to have a friend yet not to use him is, of course, absurd!
— from With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back by Edward P. Lowry

Indeed, the man may have already run across Fire Mountain during his excursions in those waters—he may know its position as well as we do.
— from Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story by Norman Springer

This was Dr. McLaughlin, whom I knew in Portugal as a staff assistant-surgeon, who attended me while sick at Lisbon.
— from Recollections of a Peninsular Veteran by Joseph Jocelyn Anderson

As to you, Mr. Cutchshaw, we have asked you to come here because we want to ascertain what you know in particular about the death of Oswald, and we 207 also, however, want any pertinent facts that you may have that would bear upon the entire picture.
— from Warren Commission (12 of 26): Hearings Vol. XII (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

The souls of friends, like kings in progress, are Still in their own, though from the palace far: Thus her friend's heart her country dwelling was A sweet retirement to a coarser place; 260
— from The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 2 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by John Dryden

God knows, I praise a courtier where I can.
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope