Now our king Rehoboam delivered up our city without fighting.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

As the youth lives in the future, so the man lives with the past; no one knows rightly how to live in the present.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

As the popular epic poetry of the Mahābhārata was the chief source of the Purāṇas, so the Rāmāyaṇa , the earliest artificial epic, was succeeded, though after [ 326 ] a long interval of time, by a number of Kāvyas ranging from the fifth to the twelfth century.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

There was a noise of keys rattling on split rings as lockers were opened and dissecting instruments taken out.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

They do not, like logical attributes , represent what lies in our concepts of the sublimity and majesty of creation, but something different, which gives occasion to the Imagination to spread itself over a number of kindred representations, that arouse more thought than can be expressed in a concept determined by words.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

Why hast thou not been, like me, among these heartless cravens, whom the very name of King Richard terrifies, as it is said to do the children of the Saracens?”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

" The conversation now took a more friendly turn; and Erling said, "Although Magnus was not chosen king according to what has been the old custom of this country, yet can you with your power give him consecration as king, as God's law prescribes, by anointing the king to sovereignty; and although I be neither a king, nor of kingly race, yet most of the kings, within my recollection, have not known the laws or the constitution of the country so well as I do.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

“A king of Brahmá's seed who bore The name of Kuśa reigned of yore.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Erard de Severy, whilst fighting bravely with a small number of knights, received a sabre-cut in the face; his blood flowed fast, and it appeared not at all likely that he would survive the wound; when, addressing the knights that fought near him, he said, “If you will assure me that I and my children shall be free from all blame, I will go and demand help for you, of the duke of Anjou, whom I see yonder on the plain.”
— from The History of the Crusades (vol. 2 of 3) by J. Fr. (Joseph Fr.) Michaud

Thus the people, who could not bear the very name of king, readily submitted to a magistrate possessed of much greater power; so much do the names of things mislead us, and so little is any form of government irksome to the people, when it coincides with their prejudices.
— from Pinnock's improved edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome to which is prefixed an introduction to the study of Roman history, and a great variety of valuable information added throughout the work, on the manners, institutions, and antiquities of the Romans; with numerous biographical and historical notes; and questions for examination at the end of each section. By Wm. C. Taylor. by Oliver Goldsmith

In 103 the Linchow district north of Kwangtung, rich coal, antimony, and wolfram deposits are found; in southwestern Hunan, tin, antimony, coal, iron, copper and silver; and at Yuyang, east of Szechwan, antimony and quicksilver.
— from The International Development of China by Yat-sen Sun

He would introduce himself to the emperor as Dietrich, a noble of King Rother’s country, who had been outlawed by his sovereign, and who now craved Constantine’s protection.
— from Epics and Romances of the Middle Ages by Wilhelm Wägner

[200] Papers relating to the Nun of Kent: Rolls House MS.
— from History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II. by James Anthony Froude

I don’t remember to have heard of any gentlefolks of the name of King residing in this part of the New Forest.”
— from Girls of the Forest by L. T. Meade

But that was not all; it appeared as if wonders would never cease, for when Smallbones came up to receive his master’s provisions, after the others had been served and gone away, the corporal not only kindly received him, but actually presented him with a stiff glass of grog mixed with the corporal’s own hand.
— from Snarleyyow; or, The Dog Fiend by Frederick Marryat

In spite of the difficulties caused by the war, a third section was open to traffic north of Kambové, reaching Djilongo (68 miles) in July, 1915.
— from New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol. 8, Pt. 2, No. 1, July 1918 by Various

Finallie, after he had sundrie times mooued this suit for the hauing of the lands vnto which he pretended a title, and could get nothing of king Richard but faire words, putting him as it were in hope to obteine that he required at his next returne out of France, vpon the 22 daie of Aprill being fridaie, he tooke leaue of the king, and returned towards his countrie, not verie ioifull, in that he could not obteine his suit.
— from Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (06 of 12) Richard the First by Raphael Holinshed