42 This is supposing the present race of kings in the world to have had an honorable origin; whereas it is more than probable, that could we take off the dark covering of antiquity, and trace them to their first rise, that we should find the first of them nothing better than the principal ruffian of some restless gang, whose savage manners or pre-eminence in subtility obtained him the title of chief among plunderers; and who by increasing in power, and extending his depredations, over-awed the quiet and defenceless to purchase their safety by frequent contributions.
— from Common Sense by Thomas Paine

Of Gokuldas the bard says, in allusion to the peaceful reign of Karan, “The wreath of Karan’s renown was fading, but Gokul revived it with his blood.”
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

“For thirty years,” he said, “I've sailed the seas and seen good and bad, better and worse, fair weather and foul, provisions running out, knives going, and what not.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

But what there is to say upon this point has found its place elsewhere in the appendix to this work, where I controvert the existence of the so-called practical reason of Kant, which he (certainly very conveniently) explained as the immediate source of virtue, and as the seat of an absolute ( i.e. , fallen from heaven) imperative.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

The political conditions described in the Rāmāyaṇa indicate the patriarchal rule of kings possessing only a small territory, and never point to the existence of more complex states; while the references of the poets of the Mahābhārata to the dominions in Eastern India ruled by a powerful king, Jarāsandha, and embracing many lands besides Magadha, reflect the political conditions of the fourth century B.C.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

The doleful knight took Don Quixote by the arm, saying, "Sit down here, sir knight; for, that you are one, and of those that profess knight-errantry, it is to me a sufficient proof to have found you in this place, where solitude and night, the natural couch and proper retreat of knights-errant, keep you company."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

He has profited by his meeting with such personalities as Sir Henry Gurney, the British High Commissioner for the Federation of Malaya, who was later murdered by the Communists, meetings with Philippine, Republic of Korea, Chinese Nationalist, captured Chinese Communist and other personalities, as well as by association with such veterans in the field as General MacArthur's chief psywar expert, Colonel J. Woodall Greene.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

But a nation of philosophers is as little to be expected as the philosophical race of kings wished for by Plato.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

III—Account of the preparatory rites of kayga’u .
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

90 Tigers are naturally too fierce to be tracked by the Malays, and are usually caught in specially constructed traps ( pĕnjara rimau ), or killed by a self-acting [ 167 ] gun or spear-trap ( b’lantek s’napang , b’lantek tĕrbang , b’lantek parap , etc.); but even in this case the Pawang explains to the tiger that it was not he but Muhammad who set the trap.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

, ii. 333 ; in form of an old man, i. 206 sq. ; in first corn cut, 215; personal representative of, killed in mimicry, 216; killing the, 216 sqq. , 223 sqq.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 08 of 12) by James George Frazer

The rook ( Corvus frugilegus ) is a permanent resident of Kashmir and the North-Western Himalayas, but in mid-winter many individuals are driven by the cold into the Frontier Province and the Punjab; some come as far south as Lahore, where they consort with the crows.
— from Glimpses of Indian Birds by Douglas Dewar

I fancy you prefer the parsiphallic repulse of Kundry, when Wagner had become anti-natural, denying womanhood, thanks to his epicene patron, crazy King Ludwig of Bavaria."
— from Painted Veils by James Huneker

R99214, 16Jun52, M. Ruelle Kelchner (PWH) Restoration of King Solomon’s Temple and citadel; long section thru Temple and Forecourt.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals: Artwork 1951-1959 Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

A revolt occurred in Pentonville Road, opposite King’s Cross Underground Station, which ended in a fierce and terrible fray.
— from The Invasion of 1910, with a full account of the siege of London by William Le Queux

Prexaspes replied: 'O king, I believe that I understand what has happened; the rebels are the Magians, Patizeithes, the overseer of the palace, and his brother Smerdis.'
— from The History of Antiquity, Vol. 6 (of 6) by Max Duncker

Few people, perhaps, remember or know that this man began the great diamond trade of Africa.
— from Chatterbox, 1905. by Various

R99231, 16Jun52, M. Ruelle Kelchner (PWH) Restoration of King Solomon’s Temple and citadel; King Solomon’s Temple and citadel.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals: Artwork 1951-1959 Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

[91] CASE VI THE PHANTOM REGIMENT OF KILLIECRANKIE
— from Scottish Ghost Stories by Elliott O'Donnell