] H2 anchor THE TEMPEST DRAMATIS PERSONAE ALONSO, King of Naples SEBASTIAN, his brother PROSPERO, the right Duke of Milan ANTONIO, his brother, the usurping Duke of Milan FERDINAND, son to the King of Naples GONZALO, an honest old counsellor Lords ADRIAN FRANCISCO CALIBAN, a savage and deformed slave TRINCULO, a jester STEPHANO, a drunken butler MASTER OF A SHIP BOATSWAIN MARINERS MIRANDA, daughter to Prospero ARIEL, an airy spirit Spirits IRIS CERES JUNO NYMPHS REAPERS Other Spirits attending on Prospero SCENE: A ship at sea; afterwards an uninhabited island THE TEMPEST ACT I. SCENE 1 On a ship at sea; a tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning heard Enter a SHIPMASTER and a BOATSWAIN MASTER.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

It was called the blood-beech—a kind of negro growing among the other trees, so dark brown were the leaves.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Evidently they would not speak, even "for me," and Mrs. Hooker sends around this note of explanation to the "old guard:" "I know of no gentlemen outside of members of Congress, that can help us at all, who can come.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

When there are five (and I know of no greater number in this country), they run as follows: (1) centre, (2) dexter inner, (3) sinister inner, (4) dexter outer, (5) sinister outer.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

I know of no greater absurdity than that propounded by most systems of philosophy in declaring evil to be negative in its character.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism by Arthur Schopenhauer

If followed by two kinds of numerals = Genesis in Ælfric de vetere et novo testamento (Bibl. der Ags. Prosa, vol. 1, Cassel, 1872).
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

I went accordingly, and found that he had received letters from the king of Navarre (grandfather of Henry IV.).
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

His valedictory letter to Madison, written from Monticello on March 17, 1809, contained a very curious admission of the inability of the United States to carry out war successfully with their present organization; "I know of no Government," he wrote, "which would be so embarrassing in war as ours.
— from Thomas Jefferson, the Apostle of Americanism by Gilbert Chinard

He was carrying a lot of scraps on a plate to a hound dog that had a kennel out near George's cabin, and he walled his eyes right thoughtful, and scratched his head with the fork he had been scraping the plate with, but fur a while nothing come of it.
— from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis

I know of no greater contrast than that which exists between this man and our princely host.
— from Reminiscences of Prince Talleyrand, Volume 1 (of 2) by Colmache, M., active 19th century

Where one warrior was another was likely to be in those northern marches, the most dangerous kind of neutral ground.
— from The Hunters of the Hills by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

157 n. 2 Kabadi, a district of British New Guinea, i. 35 [pg 353] Kabenau river, in German New Guinea, ii. 193 Kabyle tale, milk-tie in a, ii. 138 n. 1; the external soul in a, 139 Kahma, in Burma, annual extinction of fires in, i. 136 Kai of New Guinea, their seclusion of women at menstruation, i. 79; their use of a cleft stick as a cure, ii. 182 ; their rites of initiation, 239 sqq.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 11 of 12) by James George Frazer

“I never graduated, you know; I never even attended a Cesarea Anniversary in my life (and [331] you can’t think how it shocked the Trustees at dinner, and that was such fun, so I kept on not going!), and I can’t be expected to fathom these matters.
— from A Singular Life by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Thus did the Englishmen and other, in title of the K. of Nauarre, greatlie indamage the realme of France, dailie winning townes and castels, ransoming the people, and wasting the countries in most miserable wise, as in the historie of France you may read more at large.
— from Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (11 of 12) Edward the Third, Who Came to the Crowne by the Resignation of His Father Edward the Second by Raphael Holinshed

In 1825, Mrs. Jackson, the wife of the hero of New Orleans, whose own place in Washington society was at first a little precarious because of some irregularity in her marriage, till the noble character of the woman silenced her detractors,--thus wrote to Mrs. Kingsley of Nashville, giving her first impressions of the capital: "To tell you of this city, I would not do justice to the subject.
— from Women of America Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 10 (of 10) by John Ruse Larus

Then they heard “Örrke—örrk,” a kind of nasal grunt, approaching nearer and nearer.
— from The Trail of the Elk by Mikkjel Fønhus

Among the other nineteen selected applicants were two whom I knew, one named Geoffrey, and a fellow named [9] Stephenson, who had been at Edinburgh with me.
— from Under the Red Crescent Adventures of an English Surgeon with the Turkish Army at Plevna and Erzeroum 1877-1878 by John Sandes