The sword rose, the hind fell, the herd was driven, Fire glimpsed; and all the land from roof and rick, In drifts of smoke before a rolling wind, Streamed to the peak, and mingled with the haze And made it thicker; while the phantom king Sent out at times a voice; and here or there Stood one who pointed toward the voice, the rest Slew on and burnt, crying, 'No king of ours, No son of Uther, and no king of ours;'
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Early in spring King Svein sent messengers eastward into Svithjod, to his son-in-law Olaf, the Swedish king, and to Earl Eirik; and informed them that King Olaf of Norway was levying men for an expedition, and intended in summer to go to Vindland.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

King Canute had heard in England that King Olaf of Norway had called out a levy, and had gone with his forces to Denmark, and was making great ravages in his dominions there.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Then, at the sound of a trumpet, all the knights were assembled to council; and after much talking, Prianius said, “Cease your words, for I warn you in yonder wood ye shall find knights out of number, who will put out cattle for a decoy to lead you on; and ye are not seven hundred!”
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

She had never been staying there before, without being struck by it, or without wishing that other Elliots could have her advantage in seeing how unknown, or unconsidered there, were the affairs which at Kellynch Hall were treated as of such general publicity and pervading interest; yet, with all this experience, she believed she must now submit to feel that another lesson, in the art of knowing our own nothingness beyond our own circle, was become necessary for her; for certainly, coming as she did, with a heart full of the subject which had been completely occupying both houses in Kellynch for many weeks, she had expected rather more curiosity and sympathy than she found in the separate but very similar remark of Mr and Mrs Musgrove:
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

—That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

This place was explained to me to be the kramat of one Nakhoda Hussin, described as a jin (of the orthodox variety), who presides over the water, rain, and streams.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

One of these bankers, who was once known to the police as the keeper of one notorious stale-beer dive and the active backer of others, is to-day an extensive manufacturer of macaroni, the owner of several big tenements and other real estate; and the capital, it is said, has all come out of his old business.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

Such motion may be in general called dancing, and is of two kinds: one of nobler figures, imitating the honourable, the other of the more ignoble figures, imitating the mean; and of both these there are two further subdivisions.
— from Laws by Plato

What we may hope and must strive for is that, with the development of mankind, a better knowledge of our neighbors, an understanding that a difference is not necessarily a vice, nor a criticism a threat, with that better instruction which a society like this one is giving to the many, a time may come when that same public opinion will render impossible the two sorts of casus belli for which More deems war to be not only necessary but noble and virtuous.
— from With Americans of Past and Present Days by J. J. (Jean Jules) Jusserand

III, p. 1253) that he did not believe God could give to matter or to any other cause the faculty of becoming organic without communicating to it the idea and the knowledge of organic nature.
— from Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von

The apparent hesitation, however, between the forms Casem and Scasem suggests that the Kishm of our note may formerly have been termed S'kashm or Ish-Kashm, a form frequent in the Oxus Valley, e.g. Ish-Kimish, Ish-Káshm, Ishtrakh, Ishpingao .
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Now, let's hitch up an' strike the road again an' try to make up some of the time we've lost here—for we've been knocked out of nearly a day's drive by these jayhawkers.
— from The Wolf Hunters: A Story of the Buffalo Plains by Robert Morris Peck

On shore, deep in the country, far distant from all hum of life, the stillness of night is a desired and familiar condition of darkness; it soothes to rest; whatever vexes it is a violence; the sweeping of a gale through hissing and roaring trees, the thunder of wind in the chimney, the lashing of the windows with hail and rain, the red belt of lightning to whose view the bedroom glances in blood to the eye of its disturbed occupant; all this brings with it an element of fear, of something unusual, out of keeping, out of nature almost.
— from An Ocean Tragedy by William Clark Russell

A DIRGE AUTUMN "WHEN THE FROST IS ON THE PUNKIN" KORE OLD OCTOBER NOVEMBER NOVEMBER STORM FEAR WINTER: A DIRGE OLD WINTER THE FROST THE FROSTED PANE THE FROST SPIRIT SNOW TO A SNOW-FLAKE THE SNOW-SHOWER MIDWINTER A GLEE FOR WINTER THE DEATH OF THE OLD YEAR DIRGE FOR THE YEAR WOOD AND FIELD AND RUNNING BROOK WALDEINSAMKEIT I DO NOT COUNT THE HOURSS I SPEND
— from The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

The ruffled grouse may be called the king of our Northern game birds.
— from Harper's Young People, November 29, 1881 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

—That a religion may be true, it must show knowledge of our nature.
— from The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal by Blaise Pascal

Rachel, a type of the Contemplative Life, 163 , 174 , 180 , 184 , 234 , 242 Reading necessary for prayer, 190 Reason: its function, 206 ; the higher and the lower, 249 ; the speculative and the practical, 68 Religion: the virtue of, 27-50 ; that it is a virtue, 34 ; definition of, 27-31 , 39 , 49 ; its principle is charity, 56 ; it is one virtue, 35 ; and a Moral Virtue, 40 ; and a special virtue, 37-39 ; not a Theological Virtue, 39 ; the via media in, 41 ; the harmony of, 42 ; is superior to the other Moral Virtues, 42 ; is not for God's profit, but for ours, 43 ; demands external acts, 44 ; how far it is identified with sanctity, 47-50 Religious Orders, the Active and Contemplative compared, 253-257 Religious people, 31 , 50 , 61 ; they are not always Saints, 50 Reposeful characters, 252 Romanus, Brother, appears to St. Thomas, 12 Sacrifice, the real nature of, 38 , 46 , 244 Saints, the: what it is to be a Saint, 50 ; they are not gloomy, 64 , 65 ; their knowledge of our needs, 82 , 152-157 ; their prayers for us, 115-118 ; they feel no grief for us on earth, 155 ; their wills are perfectly conformed to that of God, 116 , 156 , 163 , 165 , 167 ; the Communion of Saints, 158 , 164 ; we ought to pray to them, 157-161 ; of devotion to the Saints, 57 ; to the lesser Saints, 117 , 160 ; they are co-workers with God, 154 ; in what sense their prayers are always heard, 158 , 162-168 ; their merits, 163 , 166 ; how they pray for us, 163 , 167 "Saint of Saints, The," 160 Scripture, prayer for knowledge of Holy, 88 Seneca: on petitions, 74 ; on idolatry, 46 Sentences, the Book of, 6 , 25 Sinners, prayer for: 97 ; the prayers of sinners, 143-146 Sins of conversation, 110 Socrates on prayer, 84 Solicitude, how far it is forbidden, 90 Sorrow, as an effect of devotion, 62 , 64 Speculation, 189 Spirit, the Holy, how He helps us to pray, 85 "Spirit and truth," prayer in, 126 , 127 Spiritualism, 3 Stability implied in the notion of sanctity, 49 Strabo, Walafrid, his Gloss, 24 Strictness of life not an end in itself, 257 "Sufficiency of life," prayer for, 89 Suffrages for the Dead, 167 , 168 Summa Theologica : the broad divisions of, 19 , 20 ; the method employed in, 21 , 22 ; the Tertia Pars , 13 Superiors and Contemplation, 238 Supererogation, works of, 44 Superstition, 42 Supersubstantial Bread, 103 Supplications as a part of prayer, 146 Swearing, Origen on, 148 Teaching: in what it consists, 227 , 228 ; due to Contemplation, 227 ; how far it belongs to the Active Life, 226-229 ; the beauty of the teaching life, 227 ; how the Angels teach, 231 Temperance: a necessity for the Contemplative Life, 184 , 185 ;
— from On Prayer and The Contemplative Life by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Volumes have been written on the plant-lore and garden-craft of Shakespeare; and the authors dwell equally on the poet's ingrained love of the country and his keen observation of natural phenomena and the agricultural practice of the time.
— from Shakespeare the Boy With Sketches of the Home and School Life, Games and Sports, Manners, Customs and Folk-lore of the Time by W. J. (William James) Rolfe