But yet I must answer that some knew of it and as existing in actu .
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

The Greeks might applaud their superior knowledge of the arts and stratagems of war, but they confessed the strength and courage of the French cavalry, and the infantry of the Germans; 15 and the strangers are described as an iron race, of gigantic stature, who darted fire from their eyes, and spilt blood like water on the ground.
— 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

Marriott, thy harp, on Isis strung, To many a Border theme has rung; Then list to me, and thou shalt know Of this mysterious man of woe.
— from Marmion: A Tale Of Flodden Field by Walter Scott

An inquiry was set on foot into the real doctrines of [395] the Brotherhood; and, though the decision of the inquisitors was mainly in favour of the Brothers, yet the restrictions placed on them by the Elector were so galling, and the pressure upon them to accept the Confession of Augsburg was so persistent, that many preferred to take their chance once more among their Slavonic kinsmen of Poland, rather than to accept the nominal protection of the Elector, when accompanied with so many practical inconveniences.
— from Bohemia, from the earliest times to the fall of national independence in 1620 With a short summary of later events by C. Edmund (Charles Edmund) Maurice

"Since we haven't so much as the smallest kind of a boat I can't see how that information will be of any use to us," Neal replied laughingly.
— from The Search for the Silver City: A Tale of Adventure in Yucatan by James Otis

From there Maisie Lennox had come up to Earlstoun, to tell my mother all that she knew of myself and my cousin Wat.
— from The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

Tell me about this strange kind of cowardice which can face death.”
— from The Valley of Vision : A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales by Henry Van Dyke

And now, I must add; that such kind of falling of stones from the clouds , as has been described to have happened in Tuscany, seems to have happened also in very remote ages, of which we are not without sufficient testimony; and such as well deserves to be allowed and considered, on the present occasion; although the knowledge of the facts was, at first, in days of ignorance and gross darkness, soon perverted to the very worst purposes.
— from Remarks Concerning Stones Said to Have Fallen from the Clouds, Both in These Days, and in Antient Times by Edward King

When we reached Alpha Centaurus, and set down at the trading field on the second planet, it was the same as the other trips we'd made, and the same kind of landfall.
— from The Stoker and the Stars by Algis Budrys

You couldn't have; not with Isobel Montmorenci for a grandmother, and Queenie Madrew for a mother, and the same kind on your Pop's side of the house.
— from The Black Pearl by Woodrow, Wilson, Mrs.

Mr. Favors says that he, his mother, and the two maids ate the same kind of food that the "Widow," and her nieces were served.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 by United States. Work Projects Administration

The water was so full of myriads of babies like myself that it took all of my attention to simply keep out of the way of the crowd.
— from Birds and Nature Vol. 11 No. 2 [February 1902] Illustrated by Color Photography by Various