It is impossible there should be such a trade as even that of a nailer in the remote and inland parts of the highlands of Scotland.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Nae mair the flow'r in field or meadow springs, Nae mair the grove with airy concert rings, Except perhaps the Robin's whistling glee, Proud o' the height o' some bit half-lang tree: The hoary morns precede the sunny days, Mild, calm, serene, wide spreads the noontide blaze, While thick the gosamour waves wanton in the rays.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

The rest of the story is told by you Lacedaemonians as part of the history of Sparta.
— from Laws by Plato

A Paraphrase on the History of Susanna.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Under the new name of Dorians, which they received from their chief Dorieus, the exiles returned: the rest of the story is part of the history of Sparta.
— from Laws by Plato

In some parts of the Highlands of Scotland the last handful of corn that is cut by the reapers on any particular farm is called the Maiden, or in Gaelic Maidhdeanbuain, literally, “the shorn Maiden.”
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

The princes of the house of Seleucus usurped and lost the Macedonian command over the East.
— 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

PRESS OF THE HENRY O. SHEPARD CO. CHICAGO.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

Somehow or other luxuriously furnished apartments don't seem to go with Princes of the House of Savoy.
— from Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Wife: January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 by Mary King Waddington

Possibly, the observer might reflect, the gift was of that kind which lays the possessor peculiarly open to her outrageous slings and arrows.
— from The Daughters of Danaus by Mona Caird

:— “I have heard a lady of great and ancient rank relate that the late Cardinal du Bellay, whilst a Bishop and Cardinal, married Madame de Chastillon, and died married; and this lady said it in conversing with Monsieur de Manne, a Provençal of the house of Seulal, and Bishop of Frejus, who had attended the said Cardinal during fifteen years at the Court of Rome, and had been one of his private protonotaries.
— from The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Edition by Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre

I hear the rattle of the ash-cans in the morning; and you hear the song of the wind playing on the harp of summer.
— from The Prairie Child by Arthur Stringer

He is a prince of the house of Shehaab; a great house, but fallen.’
— from Tancred; Or, The New Crusade by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Rather than believe in the “smileless eternity” of such as these, we should accept the conjecture of Soame Jennings, that “a portion of the happiness of seraphim and just men made perfect would [Pg 82] be derived from an exquisite perception of the ludicrous.”
— from Wit and Humor of the Bible: A Literary Study by Marion D. (Marion Daniel) Shutter

One of his sons married a princess of the House of Saxony, another son was a cardinal, and a daughter married into the House of Lorraine.
— from Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters by Elbert Hubbard

This province, or kingdom, was famous for the retreat it gave to the only remaining prince of the house of Solomon, who fled from the massacre of his brethren by Judith, about the year 900, upon the rock of Damo.
— from Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, Volume 3 (of 5) In the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773 by James Bruce