In 1786 the seventh and eighth degrees were transposed, the eleventh became Sublime Knight Elect, the twentieth Grand Master of all Symbolic, the twenty-first Noachite or Prussian Knight, the twenty-third Chief of the Tabernacle, the twenty-fourth Prince of the Tabernacle, the twenty-fifth Knight of the Brazen Serpent.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Else we might easily imagine, upon some other system which might have prevailed for any thing which our pathology knows to the contrary, a lover addressing his mistress, in perfect simplicity of feeling, "Madam, my liver and fortune are entirely at your disposal;" or putting a delicate question, "Amanda, have you a midriff to bestow?"
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

The citizens and soldiers (we know not from what cause) were animated with equal fury; several of the principal officers of Niger, who despaired of, or who disdained, a pardon, had thrown themselves into this last refuge: the fortifications were esteemed impregnable, and, in the defence of the place, a celebrated engineer displayed all the mechanic powers known to the ancients.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

In vain:—I was the last person known to have any thing to do with him, and they held me to the terrible account.
— from Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street by Herman Melville

Keiki had preceded Kaménosuké to Sumpu.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

And especially would this seem to be a matter of course, in the case of vessels owned in one seaport, and whose captains, officers, and not a few of the men are personally known to each other; and consequently, have all sorts of dear domestic things to talk about.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

As I went away I took it into my head to complain to Prince Kaunitz, though I had not the honour of knowing him.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

In the sight Of thy former lady's eye: And the country proverb known, That every man should take his own, In your waking shall be shown: Jack shall have Jill; Nought shall go ill; The man shall have his mare again, and all shall be well.
— from A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

Schluter ascribes the invention of it to duke Julius, and places it in the year 1570: but it must be somewhat older than the above-quoted account of Rammelsberg; for the author, who wrote about 1565 94 , relates, that in his time one citizen only, whom he calls Henni Balder, boiled white vitriol; and it appears that this person kept the process a secret.
— from A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 2 (of 2) by Johann Beckmann

95 Prehistoric remains in Minorca: (1) towns; (2) naus; (3) taulas or bilithons; (4) talayuts, 222-225 Procida, John of, 78 Provençal fleet, 66 Provence, Count of: daughters all Queens, 57 Puebla, 164 , 186 Puig Cerdan, pass in the Pyrenees, 154 Puig Galatzo, 8 Puig Mayor, 8 , 41 Puig de Massanella, 41 Puig de l’Ofre, 41 Puigdorfila, noble Majorcan family, 109 ; Guillermo de, friend of King Jayme II., 118 ; Juan de, 182 ; murdered by Comuneros, 183 Pula, 246 Pyrenees, 1 ; paths known to La Figuera, 63 ; crossed by Jayme IV., 154 Quadruple Alliance, 254 Quinctilius Varro, 226 Ramillies , H.M.S., Byng’s flagship, 274 Ramiro I., first King of Aragon, 2 Ramis, Juan Ramis y, Chronicler of Minorca, wrote the ‘Alonsiada,’ 235 ; his list of ‘Talayots,’ 223 ; on the botany of Minorca, 270 ( n )
— from The Story of Majorca and Minorca by Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir

Peter Kennedy threw himself on to the sofa, desecrating it, bringing an angry flush to Gabriel’s brow.
— from Twilight by Julia Frankau

You have let it be publicly known that you are a private detective, working for the Fleming family," Goode orated.
— from Murder in the Gunroom by H. Beam Piper

Joan was waiting, expectant of she knew not what, and the man, filled with puzzlement, knew that the solution lay only with the girl beside him.
— from The Golden Woman: A Story of the Montana Hills by Ridgwell Cullum

I lay in the sepulcher, but with the full vividness of life, and with a perfect knowledge that there it was my doom to lie forever.
— from Tarry thou till I come; or, Salathiel, the wandering Jew. by George Croly

The upright piano, known then as a cottage piano, was invented in 1800.
— from Furniture of the Olden Time by Frances Clary Morse

The psalmist knew that all being and action had their origin in God.
— from The Life of David: As Reflected in His Psalms by Alexander Maclaren

He piously kissed the altar tables and the bases of the crucifixes and saints; then picking out a dark corner he opened his cloth, took out his glasses, lighted the candle and squatted for his operation.
— from In Indian Mexico (1908) by Frederick Starr