You are very kind in planning presents for me to make, and my mother has shown me exactly the same attention; but as I do not choose to have generosity dictated to me, I shall not resolve on giving my cabinet to Anna till the first thought of it has been my own.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

The authority of a king is purely physical, and it controls the actions of the subject without subduing his private will; but the majority possesses a power which is physical and moral at the same time; it acts upon the will as well as upon the actions of men, and it represses not only all contest, but all controversy.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Anon comes in a fellow, takes off his crown, kisses it, pours poison in the King’s ears, and exits.
— from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare

To burn with one clear flame, to stand erect In natural honour, not to bend the knee In profitless prostrations whose effect Is by itself condemned, what alchemy Can teach me this?
— from Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

The king, in person, presided in the upper court, the court of the barons.
— 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

K. The fascia transversalis; k , its pubic part.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

Probability , kredebleco, kredindeco, iĝebleco. Probation , provtempo.
— from English-Esperanto Dictionary by J. C. (John Charles) O'Connor

Enter a King and a Queene, the Queene embracing him, and he her, he takes her vp, and declines his head vpon her necke, he lyes him downe vppon a bancke of flowers, she seeing him asleepe, leaues him: anon come in an other man, takes off his crowne, kisses it, pours poyson in the sleepers eares, and leaues him: the Queene returnes, finds the King dead, makes passionate action, the poysner with some three or foure come in againe, seeme to condole with her, the dead body is carried away, the poysner wooes the Queene with gifts, shee seemes harsh awhile, but in the end accepts loue.
— from The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 8 of 9] by William Shakespeare

The highly significant thing about such phonetic interinfluencings is the strong tendency of each language to keep its phonetic pattern intact.
— from Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir

To comprehend the universe we must know it philosophically, poetically, and religiously, as well as scientifically.
— from What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul by Richard La Rue Swain

And that will keep its proper place, whate’er her attitude, And satisfy the conscience of the most exacting prude— Unless a rainstorm comes along that nothing does by halves, And then we’ll get a view of her that won’t be only calves!
— from Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 2, No. 21, June, 1921 America's Magazine of Wit, Humor and Filosophy by Various

He left issue two sons: William and Philip: William married Maude de Saint Wallery, and succeeded to the great estate of his father and mother, which he kept in peaceable possession during the reigns of king Henry II. and king Richard I.
— from The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin Through Wales by Cambrensis Giraldus

"It must be one of the long dead Vikings," said Frank, after a moment's thought, "in these frozen regions and incased in ice as the ship has been, I suppose that a human body could be kept in perfect preservation indefinitely."
— from The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash; or, Facing Death in the Antarctic by John Henry Goldfrap

Belliard first relieved his apprehensions, and then added, that "Beyond the Wiazma, behind a ravine, on an advantageous position, the enemy had shown himself in force and ready for battle; that the cavalry on both sides immediately engaged, and as the infantry became necessary, the king in person put himself at the head of one of Davoust's divisions, and drew it out to lead it against the enemy; but that the marshal hastened up, calling to his men to halt, loudly censuring that manœuvre, harshly reproaching the king for it, and forbidding his generals to obey him: that Murat then appealed to his dignity, to his military rank, to the exigency of the occasion, but in vain; that, finally, he had sent to declare to the emperor his disgust for a command so contested, and to tell him that he must choose between him and Davoust."
— from History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 by Ségur, Philippe-Paul, comte de

Saouy, replied the king, I perceive plainly you think it too great a sum; it may be so for you, though not for me.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 by Anonymous