The sword that I myself in Muscovy, When these white hairs were black, for keepsake left Of obligation for a like return To him who saved me wounded as I lay Fighting against his country; took me home; Tended me like a brother till recover'd, Perchance to fight against him once again
— from Life Is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Cain, which means “artificer,” is in Hebrew the same word as Kenan, lacking only one formative letter at the end.
— from Archæology and the Bible by George A. (George Aaron) Barton

"No; but she knows lots of our friends.
— from Patty and Azalea by Carolyn Wells

[230] château with his wife, Marie de Cleves, and to know that he had the pleasure of holding in his arms his little son and heir, Louis of Orleans, afterwards the good King Louis, our old friend, and the bone of Walter's contention with Miss Cassandra.
— from In Château Land by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton

'Where,' (to adopt the kindred language of our fair satirist's illustrious archetype, 'Rosa Matilda,') 'Where is Cupid's crimson motion?
— from The Knickerbocker, Vol. 10, No. 6, December 1837 by Various

This time the captain’s kick landed only on flesh and bone past any power of feeling.
— from Cursed by George Allan England

The present incumbent knows little of our frame of government.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 20 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

In the Pigeon Lake area of Miami County, Kansas, the northwesternmost known locality of occurrence for laticeps , the habitat relations described by Conant for Ohio were almost reversed.
— from Life History and Ecology of the Five-Lined Skink, Eumeces fasciatus by Henry S. (Henry Sheldon) Fitch

"Reared abroad, I know little of our family relations in general; for example, I am indebted to a lucky chance for discovering not our relationship, of which I was aware, but other intimate bonds connecting our families from of old."
— from In Vain by Henryk Sienkiewicz

What gradations from the cold, ceremonial North German, who clings fast to etiquette, and with difficulty attaches himself to others, to the good-natured South German, who, knowing little of outward forms, readily finds a friend to whom he can ally himself.
— from The Student-Life of Germany by William Howitt