"Do you remember, Fredrika," said the sister, as they sat in the carriage and drove quickly to the church, "do you remember how you always in the old days expected some knight to carry you off on the road to church?"
— from Invisible Links by Selma Lagerlöf

Once I made a rhyme about it, singing softly: Over Damascus every star Keeps his unchanging course and cold, The dark weighs like an iron bar, The intense and pallid night is old, Dim the moon's scimitar.
— from Young Adventure: A Book of Poems by Stephen Vincent Benét

Ahmad (Achmath), the Bailo, of Fenaket, his power, oppressions, death, etc. —— Sultan, Khan of Persia, see Acomat.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Rustichello of Pisa

In one of the niches of the cloister, in a simple urn, lies the heart of Don Enrique, second King of Castile of that name, the half-brother (one of the bastards mentioned in a previous chapter and from whom all later Spanish monarchs are descended) of Peter the Cruel.
— from The Cathedrals of Northern Spain Their History and Their Architecture; Together with Much of Interest Concerning the Bishops, Rulers and Other Personages Identified with Them by Charles Rudy