in some beggar's haffet squattle; There ye may creep, and sprawl, and sprattle, Wi' ither kindred, jumping cattle, In shoals and nations; Whaur horn nor bane ne'er daur unsettle Your thick plantations.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

Is it due to excess of poetry or of stupidity that we are never weary of describing what King James called a woman's "makdom and her fairnesse," never weary of listening to the twanging of the old Troubadour strings, and are comparatively uninterested in that other kind of "makdom and fairnesse" which must be wooed with industrious thought and patient renunciation of small desires?
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

"Some day you shall know, John Carter, if we live; but I may not tell you.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Thence to my office, and there did a little business, and so to church, where a dull sermon, and then home, and Cozen Kate Joyce come and dined with me and Mr. Holliard; but by chance I offering occasion to him to discourse of the Church of Rome, Lord!
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Jamaica (British) Kingston Jamaica Classes: Blue Mountain (high-grown) Settlers' (ordinary, or plain-grown)
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

It is told that, as they drew near to the city, after their manner, with the holy cross, and the image of our sovereign Lord and King, Jesus Christ, they sang in concert this litany: “We beseech thee, O Lord, for Thy great mercy, that Thy wrath and anger be turned away from this city, and from Thy holy house, for we have sinned.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

And for a minister of my intent I have seduc'd a headstrong Kentishman, John Cade of Ashford, To make commotion, as full well he can, Under the tide of John Mortimer.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Richard Mountfiquit lived in King John’s time; and in the year 1213, was by the same king banished the realm into France, when peradventure King John caused his castle of Mountfiquit, amongst other castles of the barons, to be overthrown; the which after his return, might be by him again re-edified; for the total destruction thereof was about the year 1276, when Robert Kilwarby, archbishop of Canterbury, began the foundation of the Fryers Preachers church there, commonly called the Blacke Fryers, as appeareth by a charter the 4th of Edward I., wherein is declared that Gregorie de Rocksley, mayor of London, and the barons of the same city, granted and gave unto the said Archbishop Robert, two lanes or ways next the street of Baynard’s castle, and the tower of Mountfiquit, to be applied for the enlargement of the said church and place.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

On June 29, 1613, it was destroyed by fire, but was rebuilt without delay in a superior style, and this time with a roof of tile, King James contributing to the cost.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

King Jerome came one morning by order of the Emperor, who, having not yet risen, told me to beg the King of Westphalia to wait.
— from Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Complete by Louis Constant Wairy

On the other side of the spruce hedge knelt John Churchill with bowed head.
— from Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

SEE Kackley, Josephine, comp.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1960 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

For instance, a Kentuckian judge cut short a tedious and long-winded counsel by suddenly breaking into his speech with: "If the Court is right, and she thinks she air, why, then, you are wrong, and you knows you is.
— from Law and Laughter by D. Macleod (Donald Macleod) Malloch

See Bibliographie des Bibliothek- und Buchwesens Index bibliographicus , 107 , 139-140 Internationale Bibliographie des Buch- und Bibliothekwesens , 106 , 140 Internationaler Jahresbericht der Bibliographie , 107-108 , 140 Jerome, St., 1-3 Josephson, A. G. S., 76-77 , 95-96 , 114 , 123 , 129-130 , 140 Krüsike, J. C., 140-141 Labbé, Philip, 3-4 , 21 , 23-39 , 47-50 , 51 , 80 , 95 , 98 , 121 , 123 , 131-132 , 135 , 141-142 Literarisches Beiblatt der Zeitschrift (later: zum Jahrbuch )
— from A History of Bibliographies of Bibliographies by Archer Taylor

King James can say, "Scotland may witness be I have not any captain more Of such account as he."
— from Legends That Every Child Should Know; a Selection of the Great Legends of All Times for Young People by Hamilton Wright Mabie

NOTE 2.—The necklace taken from the neck of the Hindu King Jaipál, captured by Mahmúd in A.D. 1001, was composed of large pearls, rubies, etc., and was valued at 200,000 dinars , or a good deal more than 100,000_l.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Rustichello of Pisa

Shasta, the gold king, J. C. Cowdrick, 48 .
— from The Beadle Collection of Dime Novels Given to the New York Public Library By Dr. Frank P. O'Brien by New York Public Library

A story that has always seemed to me illustrative of this is that of the Hibernian contingent that hanged an unfortunate Jew because his people had killed Jesus Christ and, when reminded that it had all happened some time before, replied that "that might be, but they had only just heard of it!"
— from Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by Clara Louise Kellogg