More, in the year 1293, for victory obtained by Edward I. against the Scots, every citizen, according to their several trade, made their several show, but especially the fishmongers, which in a solemn procession passed through the city, having, amongst other pageants and shows, four sturgeons gilt, carried on four horses; then four salmons of silver on four horses; and after them six and forty armed knights riding on horses, made like luces of the sea; and then one representing St. Magnus, because it was upon St. Magnus’ day, with a thousand horsemen, etc.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Now, upon the king's kind reception of her, he both showed a great desire to please her, and easily comprehending in his mind the meaning of the curious questions she propounded to him, he resolved them sooner than any body could have expected.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

With ripened judgment of a sage, And godlike in his blooming age, When shall my virtuous son appear, Like kindly rain, our hearts to cheer?
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Herod was then made king by the Romans, but did no longer appoint high priests out of the family of Asamoneus; but made certain men to be so that were of no eminent families, but barely of those that were priests, excepting that he gave that dignity to Aristobulus; for when he had made this Aristobulus, the grandson of that Hyrcanus who was then taken by the Parthians, and had taken his sister Mariarmne to wife, he thereby aimed to win the good-will of the people, who had a kind remembrance of Hyrcanus [his grandfather].
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Miss Bart was a keen reader of her own heart, and she saw that her sudden preoccupation with Selden was due to the fact that his presence shed a new light on her surroundings.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

Even while his nerves raged at the subjection of husbands to their wives, and at the cruelty of women to their kind, reason obstinately harped on the proverbial relation between smoke and fire.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

The different actors in this strange scene remained facing one another, without uttering a single word; the queen standing near the door, D’Artagnan half out of his hiding place, the king raised on his elbow, ready to fall down on his bed again at the slightest sound that would indicate the return of the multitude, but instead of approaching, the noise became more and more distant and very soon it died entirely away.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

Kells rapidly overhauled her, and she had to get out of the trail to let the pack-animals pass.
— from The Border Legion by Zane Grey

Kasba reached out her hand blindly, placed a few of the pieces gingerly upon the embers and blew the whole into a blaze; then, satisfied that the fire was well under way, she rose from her knees, and putting off her outdoor clothing, selected half-a-dozen ptarmigan from a number on the table, and, seating herself on an empty sugar-case, commenced to pluck the birds into a large tin bowl at her feet.
— from Kasba (White Partridge): A Story of Hudson Bay by George R. Ray

"Imp," cried Lisbeth, falling on her knees, regardless of her silks and laces, "Imp, come and kiss me."
— from The Chronicles of the Imp: A Romance by Jeffery Farnol

Keeping his eyes fixed upon his opponent and crouching low, the man with the knife reached out his
— from The Princess Galva: A Romance by David Whitelaw

He knocked, regardless of her silent gesticulations, as she implored the Madonna to send this intruder away.
— from The Saint by Antonio Fogazzaro

The French king restored also to king John (as Rafe Niger writeth) the citie of Tours, and all the castels and fortresses which he had taken within Touraine: and moreouer, receiued of king John his homage for all the lands, fées and tenements which at anie time his brother king Richard, or his father king Henrie had holden of him, the said king Lewes or any his predecessors, the quit claims and marriages alwaies excepted.
— from Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (07 of 12) Iohn the Yongest Sonne of Henrie the Second by Raphael Holinshed

That night in the lovely hpea country the mighty Lord Sa Kyah reclined on his golden throne of state.
— from Shan Folk Lore Stories from the Hill and Water Country by William Charles Griggs

At first there was no sign on the waves that Kai Riu O heard.
— from Japanese Fairy World Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan by William Elliot Griffis

The three gathered themselves up and came again; went down again; came again; and kept on repeating this, with native British pluck, until they were battered to jelly, reeling with exhaustion, and so blind that they couldn't tell us from each other; and yet they kept right on, hammering away with what might was left in them.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 7. by Mark Twain

From her very childhood she had lived a life of self-forgetfulness (sublime and simple way to heights but little known!), regardless of her own tastes and inclinations, and even of her own sufferings.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 19, April 1874‐September 1874 by Various