Next to this is Sommer’s key, which likewise took that name of one Sommer dwelling there, as did Lion key of one Lion, owner thereof, and since of the sign of a Lion.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

this is the prize / I hold most dear, more precious than the fruit / Of knowledge or of love.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter—we never need read of another.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

And moreover, I can tell you, all that he sings is out of his own head; for I have heard them say he is a great scholar and poet; and what is more, every time I see him or hear him sing I tremble all over, and am terrified lest my father should recognise him and come to know of our loves.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

For such favours knights of old laid down their lives.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

And without that city toward the south is a kirk of our Lady, where our Lord shewed him to her in three clouds, the which betokened the Trinity.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

Bear in mind how well worth preserving is the pleasure felt by those of you who through your knowledge of our language and imitation of our manners were always considered Athenians, even though not so in reality, and as such were honoured throughout Hellas, and had your full share of the advantages of our empire, and more than your share in the respect of our subjects and in protection from ill treatment.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Their officers were men out of civil life in every kind of occupation, learning their war in the Ypres salient stalemate, and now they were to have the severest possible test in directing their units in an advance.
— from My Second Year of the War by Frederick Palmer

When the Throndhjem people heard these remarks of their countrymen, they could not deny that there was much truth in them, and that in depriving King Olaf of life and land they had committed a great crime, and at the same time the misdeed had been ill paid.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

“You were knocked out o’ line an’ got blowed away, didn’t you?” answered the marshal.
— from Winona of the Camp Fire by Margaret Widdemer

Bugler's goods, Pippin opined, wasn't worth the price of the handles; he'd make as good a knife out of lead pipe.
— from Pippin; A Wandering Flame by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

And while she looked from time to time at this face, the same thing occurred to her, as does to us in looking at nature; either she perceived something she had never known of or looked for before, or she imparted to his manhood something from the tenderness of her womanhood, and mourned with him and for him.
— from Fated to Be Free: A Novel by Jean Ingelow

With the assistance of this methodical book, any person can make out the plants already described by authors, and those which have become known only of late, or which are entirely new.
— from Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by William MacGillivray

Although Beowulf had won many victories at home, and his people knew him to be brave and strong, yet he longed to do some great deed which should make his name known over other lands.
— from Northland Heroes by Florence Holbrook

My labor is lost if you are not growing in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
— from Extempore Speech: How to Acquire and Practice It by William Pittenger

But even if it were otherwise—if there were risk in introducing the Gospel and in fulfilling our Stewardship—suppose there were the deliberate choice between British sovereignty and the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ—suppose it to have been a fact that there was danger to our rule in India if we openly avowed our faith in Jesus—suppose that there were real risk in a plain, open, honest, Christian government, what, brethren, should have been the decision?
— from England's Stewardship The Substance of a Sermon Preached on the Fast-Day, in Trinity Church, Tunbridge Wells by Edward Hoare