Now Psammetichos held out his helmet with no treacherous meaning; but they taking note of that which had been done by Psammetichos and of the oracle, namely how it had been declared to them that whosoever of them should make libation with a bronze cup should be sole king of Egypt, recollecting, I say, the saying of the Oracle, they did not indeed deem it right to slay Psammetichos, since they found by examination that he had not done it with any forethought, but they determined to strip him of almost all his power and to drive him away into the fen-country, and that from the fen-country he should not hold any dealings with the rest of Egypt.
— from An Account of Egypt by Herodotus

This house was called a posting-inn, though it had nothing like a stableyard, and it stood in the middle of the steppe, with no kind of enclosure round it.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Henry the VIIIth, Enrico ottávo king of England, Re Inghilterra regarded not badáre the bulls bolla and threatenings mináccia which came from Italy; veníre Italia he violently shook off violenteménte scuótere the papal power, papále potére though he retained ritenére the Roman religion.
— from Exercises upon the Different Parts of Italian Speech, with References to Veneroni's Grammar to which is added an abridgement of the Roman history, intended at once to make the learner acquainted with history, and the idiom of the Italian language by Ferdinando Bottarelli

After his election as King of Germany, which had long been neglected under the government of sham emperors, increased the burden of his duties the more seriously he took them, and the more difficult the Bohemian king Ottocar, especially, rendered it for him to maintain the crown he had won, the more eagerly he strove, particularly after the victory of Marchfield had secured his sovereignty, to increase the power of his house.
— from In the Fire of the Forge: A Romance of Old Nuremberg — Volume 05 by Georg Ebers

75 Selkirk, Thomas Douglas, fifth Earl of, i. 233 Semallé, Comte de, iii. 87 Semonville, Charles Louis Huguet, Marquis, later Duc de, iv. 8, 110-111, 132; v. 111, 113-114, 116-118, 122, 128, 173 Sénacour, Étienne Pivert de, vi. 175 Seneca, Lucius Annæus, ii. 258, 335; vi. 89 Senozan, Président Marquis de, ii. 295 Senozan, Anne Nicole de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, Marquise de, ii. 295 Senty, M., v. 96 Sequin, Abbé, vi. 253, 256-257 Sérilly, Antoine Jean François de Megret de, i. 174 Sérilly, later Dame de Pange, Anne Louise Thomas, Dame de, i. 174 Seroux d'Agincourt (see d'Agincourt) Serre, Pierre François Hercule Comte de, iv. 103, 128; vi. 46 Serres, Olivier de, vi. 242 Sérurier, Jean Marie Philippe Maréchal Comte, iii. 91 Sesmaisons, Donatien Comte de, v. 28 Sesmaisons, née Dambray, Comtesse de, v. 28 Sesmaisons, Vicomte de, v. 28 Sesostris King of Egypt, Rameses II., known as, vi, 198 Severoli, Cardinal, v. 6 Sévigné, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de, i. 14 , 105 , 125 , 143 ; ii. 100, 152, 179, 228-229, 302; 6, 89, 246; vi. 201 Sévigné, M. de, i. 143 Sévin, Abbé René Malo, i. 48 , 108 - 109 Sèze, Raymond Comte de, iv.
— from The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 1 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe, volume 1 by Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de

Anti-Pope in France, and the Bishop of Coutances taking his side, the Bishop of Nantes was appointed by Boniface administrator of the See of Coutances, and the King of England, Richard II., addressed a letter to the Governors, Bailiffs, Jurats, and other inhabitants of Jersey and Guernsey, ordering them to obey the Bishop of Nantes in all spiritual matters.
— from Guernsey Folk Lore a collection of popular superstitions, legendary tales, peculiar customs, proverbs, weather sayings, etc., of the people of that island by MacCulloch, Edgar, Sir

I confessed to a similar feeling when from the balcony of a friend's home in the Avenue du Bois de Bologne I saw the King of England riding into Paris for the first of the welcomes we were giving Allied sovereigns.
— from Paris Vistas by Helen Davenport Gibbons

In 1159, Jómarr, a kinsman of earl Rögnvaldr, is [21] mentioned in Caithness, and his name may be the Norse form of some Gaelic name.
— from Orkney and Shetland Folk 872-1350 by Alfred Wintle Johnston

(MPI) Archaeology’s second major contribution to our knowledge of early Rome is provided by Boni’s excavation of the Forum necropolis ( Fig. 3.2 ), the results of which are displayed with great clarity in the Forum Antiquarium, installed in the cloister of the church of S. Francesca Romana in the Forum itself.
— from The Mute Stones Speak: The Story of Archaeology in Italy by Paul Lachlan MacKendrick

[35] Certain it is, no single concession of king or emperor recorded in history has produced such disastrous far-reaching consequences.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 02 (of 20) by Charles Sumner