"I cannot treat you in any other way," said the genius, "and if you would know why, listen to my story.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

So that by this intelligence we learn The Welshmen are dispers'd; and Salisbury Is gone to meet the King, who lately landed With some few private friends upon this coast.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

I know whose love would follow still, Mother o' mine, O mother
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

I know what love is and how impatient it makes one.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

If this story gets around, you can bet they'll know who leaked it.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

641 A knight, whose life had been spared, was permitted to return to Paris, that he might relate the deplorable tale, and solicit the ransom of the noble captives.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Kirilov was left alone.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

So says Einar Skulason:— "Our king, whose land so wide
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Æmilius showed much consideration for those taken prisoners and liberated some of the more influential, and the Tarentini, accordingly, filled with admiration for his kindness, were led to hope for reconciliation and so chose as leader with full powers Agis, who was of kindred to the Romans.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

Had she ever known what love was?
— from Othmar by Ouida

There was high strife of faction; and there was real peril to the country by a possible turn of affairs after Queen Anne's death, that another Stuart restoration, in the name of divine right of kings, would leave rights of the people to be reconquered in civil war.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

“God is a King, whose law thou hast broken.
— from For the Master's Sake: A Story of the Days of Queen Mary by Emily Sarah Holt

Whence the blaze Arose, they knew not; but the pangs they knew When love is passionate, and man betrays, And what a frantic woman scorned can do, 1 And many a sad surmise their boding thoughts pursue.
— from The Æneid of Virgil, Translated into English Verse by Virgil

The report of this soon spread from city to city, and from country to country, till at last it reached the ears of another king, who lived far, far away, and this king happened to have twelve sons.
— from Fairy Tales From all Nations by Anthony R. (Anthony Reubens) Montalba

And at Clive (f. 179 b ), 8 Welshmen had 8 teams, and rendered x. 1 2 sextars of honey and vi. s. v. d. , and in the forest of the king was land of this manor, which T. R. E. had rendered vi. sextars of honey, and vi. sheep with lambs.
— from The English Village Community Examined in its Relations to the Manorial and Tribal Systems and to the Common or Open Field System of Husbandry; An Essay in Economic History (Reprinted from the Fourth Edition) by Frederic Seebohm

Some remains of an ancient monastery: ancient walls and pier where K. William landed.
— from The Scientific Tourist through Ireland in which the traveller is directed to the principal objects of antiquity, art, science & the picturesque by Thomas Walford

[Pg 401] see her knee, which looked as if it had been pricked in nine places with a thorn?
— from Witch Stories by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton