Why, if the nobility is based on renown, the renown is another's!
— from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

Italy, 6 , 20 , 79 , 92 n., 93 , 196 . Itchen, the river, 252 n. Ithamar, Bishop of Rochester, 164 , 178 n., 179 .
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

Some visitant of pure ethereal race With his bright presence deigns the dome to grace." "Be calm (replies the sire); to none impart, But oft revolve the vision in thy heart: Celestials, mantled in excess of light, Can visit unapproach'd by mortal sight.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

Bewildered and terror-stricken by the similarity of this death to a former one, which was attended with such disastrous consequences to Clifford, they have had no idea but of removing themselves from the scene.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Certainly, sir, I have no idea but of residence.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

He is not important because of riches or rank, for, as a rule, he is very poor and of the coolie order; he is important because he is so useful.
— from Peeps at Many Lands: Japan by John Finnemore

If, however, notwithstanding that we thus pray and openly lay everything before you, you treat us with contempt, we shall receive no injury; believing, or rather, being convinced, that every one, if his deeds shall so deserve, shall receive the punishment of eternal fire, and that an account will be required of him in proportion to the powers which he has received from God, as Christ has declared in those words, ‘To whomsoever God has given much, of him shall be much required.’
— from The Formation of Christendom, Volume II by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

The numberless islands, being of recent formation, have a forest of a different nature, and they seldom carry the larger trees.
— from The Sea and the Jungle by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson

I merely tell you," said Tarling, "that I know where you got the pistol with which you shot at me on the night I brought Odette Rider back from Ashford."
— from The Daffodil Mystery by Edgar Wallace

"Your songs are the next item but one," replied Miss Lermontof.
— from The Splendid Folly by Margaret Pedler

Poor Lucy is perfectly reconciled to her caravan and her wandering husband, and has never, I believe, once repented the day on which she became the gypsy's wife!"
— from The Disowned — Volume 01 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

A territory as vast as CEE cannot and is not inhabited by one "race".
— from After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Samuel Vaknin