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— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

On the day after, Sir Tristram met a herald, who told him of a tournament proclaimed between King Carados of Scotland, and the King of North Wales, to be held at the Maiden’s Castle.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

Should these precautions be kept constantly in view by any reader undertaking to annotate my book, that reader’s remarks will exceed in weight and interest even his own expectations, and will bring me very real advantage.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Well, she was the daughter of Guybertant, minstrel of the barges at Reims, the same who had played before King Charles VII., at his coronation, when he descended our river Vesle from Sillery to Muison, when Madame the Maid of Orleans was also in the boat.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

Conradinus, that brave Suevian prince, came with a well-prepared army into the kingdom of Naples, was taken prisoner by king Charles, and put to death in the flower of his youth; a little after ( ultionem Conradini mortis , Pandulphus Collinutius Hist.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

But when he found Chrysogonus and Petraeus ready in Thessaly to engage him, he did not venture to descend into the plain, but kept close upon the skirts of the mountains; and when news reached him of the Macedonian invasion of Aetolia, he abandoned his attempt upon Thessaly, and hurried home to resist the invaders, whom he found however already departed from Aetolia: and so was too late for the campaign at all points.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Not for an instant did they halt at any fork in the path, but kept continually on the move, often passing over stretches of ground where there was no trail visible, but coming upon it again with unfailing accuracy.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

he had been sent away from London in haste without a penny, because King Charles and the Duke of York were so jealous of any favor shown him that they were afraid the lord mayor would give him a grand feast, and hurried him off to prevent it.
— from Agnes Strickland's Queens of England, Vol. 2. (of 3) Abridged and Fully Illustrated by Agnes Strickland

We played with ten or fourteen in the circle, and as it is merely pour passer le temps , more of my poor brother Kanakas can enjoy it with two packs.”
— from White Shadows in the South Seas by Frederick O'Brien

MARY MACGREGOR WITH PICTURES BY KATHARINE CAMERON LONDON:
— from Stories of King Arthur's Knights, Told to the Children by Mary MacGregor by Mary Esther Miller MacGregor

In the preface is printed a letter, Paris, 22nd Nov. 1881, written by M. Léopold Delisle, which shows that the Stockholm MS. belonged to the library of the King of France, Charles V. (who had five copies of Polo's Book) and had No. 317 in the Inventory of 1411; it belonged to the Louvre, to Solier of Honfleur, to Paul Petau when it was purchased by King Christina.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Rustichello of Pisa

In this there was great wisdom; for it left the sin of the provocation still on the heads of the King and his evil counsellors, in so much that even, when the General Assembly, holden at Glasgow, vindicated the independence and freedom of Christ's kingdom, by continuing to sit in despite of the dissolution pronounced by King Charles' commissioner, the Marquis Hamilton, and likewise by decreeing the abolition of prelacy as an abomination, there was no political blame wherewith the people, in their capacity of subjects to their earthly prince, could be wyted or brought by law to punishment.
— from Ringan Gilhaize, or, The Covenanters by John Galt

Thus, Cutty was totally unaware upon entering the shop that he was about to tear off its hinges the door he was so carefully bolting and latching and padlocking between Kitty Conover and this duffer who wanted to fiddle his way through convalescence.
— from The Drums of Jeopardy by Harold MacGrath

Our latest and most exact information about them comes from Mr. McCarthy, who was sent with a party by King Chulalonkorn to investigate the raids perpetrated in the kingdom by these wandering robbers.
— from Siam : The Land of the White Elephant as It Was and Is by George B. (George Blagden) Bacon

Portland Beds | | Kimmeridge Clay | | Corallian Beds | Jurassic | Oxford Clay and Kellaways Rock | Shales, Sandstones and | Cornbrash | Oolitic Limestones | Forest Marble | | Great Oolite with Stonesfield Slate | | Inferior Oolite | | Lias--Upper, Middle and Lower | --- --- |
— from Cornwall by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould