Before the sun dipped below the black mass of Kettleness, standing boldly athwart the western sky, its downward way was marked by myriad clouds of every sunset-colour—flame, purple, pink, green, violet, and all the tints of gold; with here and there masses not large, but of seemingly absolute blackness, in all sorts of shapes, as well outlined as colossal silhouettes.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

Leaving out of view that system of ethics and of religious philosophy, that search after truth, those doctrines of the unity of God and the immortality of the soul, which alike distinguish the ancient Mysteries and the masonic institution, and which both must have derived from a common origin,—most probably from some priesthood of the olden time,—let our attention be exclusively directed, for the present, to that period, so familiar to every Mason, when, under the supposed Grand Mastership of King Solomon, Freemasonry first assumed "a local habitation and a name" in the holy city of Jerusalem.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

To the which tournament there came, with many other knights, Sir Ector, Arthur’s foster-father, who had great possessions near to London; and with him came his son, Sir Key, but recently made knight, to take his part in the jousting, and young Arthur also to witness all the sports and fighting.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

Nor would Sumitrá's valiant son 982 The might of Kumbhakarṇa shun, Who through his harness felt the sting Of keen shafts loosened from the string.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

So the men of Kyme sent messengers to the Branchidai 159 to inquire of the god, and they asked what course they should take about Pactyas so as to do that which was pleasing to the gods.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

He then recollected her embarrassment a few days before, on his reading Mr. Collins's letter; and after laughing at her some time, allowed her at last to go—saying, as she quitted the room, "If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite at leisure."
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

But Adam's thoughts of Hetty did not deafen him to the service; they rather blended with all the other deep feelings for which the church service was a channel to him this afternoon, as a certain consciousness of our entire past and our imagined future blends itself with all our moments of keen sensibility.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

Persons—the trees having the ability to sleep, and the winds to move or keep still.
— from Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature by Ontario. Department of Education

To us, who live under the meridian of knowledge, such expectations must appear as presumptuous as they were delusive; but when we consider that gold and silver were actually produced by chemical processes from the rude ores of lead and copper—that some of the most refractory bodies had yielded to the disintegrating and solvent powers of chemical agents, and that the mercurial preparations of the Arabian physicians had operated like charms in the cure of diseases that had resisted the feeble medicines of the times, we may find some apology for the extravagant expectations of the alchemists.
— from Letters on Natural Magic; Addressed to Sir Walter Scott, Bart. by David Brewster

It was a fearful thing to suspect a man of Kenneth's standing, but everything pointed to his being involved in a vast network of crime.
— from The Mask: A Story of Love and Adventure by Arthur Hornblow

To her—unregenerate but not unbelieving—the message of Krishna seemed to strike a deeper note of promise.
— from Far to Seek A Romance of England and India by Maud Diver

The women of the countess, whose eyes were much less bright and dangerous than when I last saw them in their pride and insolency at our abbey, lay all huddled and crouching together in a corner of the castle-yard, where divers clerks of Oxenford, with the marshal of King Stephen's camp, were making lists of the names and qualities of the prisoners.
— from A Legend of Reading Abbey by Charles MacFarlane