In many houses of the Tiyans of Malabar, offerings are made annually to a bygone personage named Kunnath Nāyar, and to his friend and disciple, Kunhi Rāyan, a Māppilla (Muhammadan).
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

Kim, regarded as Mahbub Ali's favourite by all who wished to stand well with the Pathan, was not called upon to work.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

By the methodology of pure practical reason we are not to understand the mode of proceeding with pure practical principles (whether in study or in exposition), with a view to a scientific knowledge of them, which alone is what is properly called method elsewhere in theoretical philosophy (for popular knowledge requires a manner, science a method, i.e., a process according to principles of reason by which alone the manifold of any branch of knowledge can become a system).
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

Popularity is a blaze of illumination, or alas! of conflagration, kindled round a man; showing what is in him; not putting the smallest item more into him; often abstracting much from him; conflagrating the poor man himself into ashes and "caput mortuum."
— 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.

Methinks King Richard and myself should meet With no less terror than the elements Of fire and water, when their thund'ring shock At meeting tears the cloudy cheeks of heaven.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

They keep romance and marriage apart——” Tommy flushed.
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

Of Mewar, there was the Khuman Raesa , a modern work formed from old materials which are lost, and commencing with the attack of Chitor by Mahmud, supposed to be the son of Kasim of Sind, in the very earliest ages of Muhammadanism: also the Jagat Vilas , the Raj-prakas , and the Jaya Vilas , all poems composed in the reigns of the princes whose names they bear, but generally introducing succinctly the early parts of history.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

“When they make cakes at our place,” said Pip, “we always stay in the kitchen, Rags and me, and I get the bowl and he gets the spoon and the egg beater.
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

So to Dr. Wilkins’s, where I never was before, and very kindly received and met with Dr. Merritt, and fine discourse among them to my great joy, so sober and so ingenious.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The principal chiefs, together with Kabba Rega, assured me that Abou Saood's people had been in the habit of torturing people to extract from them the secret of the spot in which their corn was concealed.
— from Ismailia by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

This led to the submission of these people, and they were forced to leave the Katibas river, and move to the main river.
— from A History of Sarawak under Its Two White Rajahs 1839-1908 by C. A. Bampfylde

In addition to all, he is a considerable bit of a humorist; when the good man's mind is easy, his humor is kindly, rich, and mellow; but, when any way in dudgeon, it is comically sarcastic.”
— from The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton

"Doesn't Mr. Kenwick row?" asked May, lifting a pair of satirical eye-brows.
— from A Venetian June by Anna Fuller

“I have a little house down the Old Kent Road, and my missus lets a room or two.
— from By Sheer Pluck: A Tale of the Ashanti War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

I, communicative as he was inquisitive, lavished information in floods; advised him as to the amount of bullion on board, to go down into the hold, and see with his own eyes; informed him, as a particular secret, that I shouldn't wonder if I was sent to headquarters, unless it happened otherwise; and hadn't the least doubt that I should have the conveyance of whatever amount of treasure was placed under my charge for that purpose; declined saying anything then about a servant, horse, or mule, as I should probably find "Milord Vilinton" had thought of me, and had everything of that kind ready against my arrival; begged to tell him I was a person of great importance, but maintaining the strictest incognito—hoped he wouldn't mention it.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 67, No. 411, January 1850 by Various

They have won kingly favour, kingly rewards; all men speak well of them; they are placed high in the land.
— from In the Days of Chivalry: A Tale of the Times of the Black Prince by Evelyn Everett-Green