A parallel myth is described in the following words:— “Now, the Perak river overflows its banks once a year, and sometimes there are very great floods.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Strange to hear how the Dutch do relate, as the Duke says, that they are the conquerors; and bonefires are made in Dunkirke in their behalf; though a clearer victory can never be expected.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The greatest monarch now alive may glory In such an honour; how may I deserve it, That am a poor and humble subject to you?
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

It is greatly to be regretted that no Dostoyevsky lived in the neighbourhood of this most interesting décadent —I mean some one who would have felt the poignant charm of such a compound of the sublime, the morbid and the childish.
— from The Antichrist by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

But this morning I discovered it at last.
— from Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

Such a mechanism once discovered confirms itself at every breath we draw, and surrounds every object in history and nature with infinite and true suggestions, making it doubly interesting, fruitful, and potent over the mind.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

[1152] foretell many things; they can cause and cure most diseases, deceive our senses; they have excellent skill in all Arts and Sciences; and that the most illiterate devil is Quovis homine scientior (more knowing than any man), as [1153] Cicogna maintains out of others.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

" Thus licensed, the humble man is despatched in three sips, and hands up his empty fenjeyn .
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

There are many insurmountable difficulties in this language; it is a mixture of Phœnician, Egyptian, Syriac, and Arabic, and has undergone many alterations to the present time.
— from The Works of Voltaire, Vol. IV of XLIII. Romances, Vol. III of III, and A Treatise on Toleration. by Voltaire

Methinks I descry in you a latent tendency to preach; nevertheless, somehow—I can’t think how—you’ve comforted me to-day and so I’m grateful.
— from An Unknown Lover by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

At thy behest I will shake off that nature Which from my forefathers I did inherit, Which with my mother's milk I did imbibe, And be no more Politian, but some other.
— from The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe Including Essays on Poetry by Edgar Allan Poe

472 What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence And justify the ways of God to men.
— from Progress and Poverty, Volumes I and II An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth by Henry George

What may I do if I’m debarred from the flower hunt?”
— from Amanda: A Daughter of the Mennonites by Anna Balmer Myers

May I die in my tracks if she didn't!
— from Plays by Aleksandr Nikolaevich Ostrovsky

Monumenti inediti dell’ Instituto di corrispondenza archeologica.
— from History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. Volume 1 (of 2) by H. B. (Henry Beauchamp) Walters

One day I was walking along a boulevard, and to my indescribable delight, I came across Lushin.
— from The Torrents of Spring by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev