when nine times the moon renews her horn, Two brother heroes shall from thee be born; Thy early care the future worthies claim, To point them to the arduous paths of fame; But in thy breast the important truth conceal, Nor dare the secret of a god reveal: For know, thou Neptune view'st!
— from The Odyssey by Homer

Site of Old Hormuz and Geography of the route from Kerman to Hormuz.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

On this huge rampart he erected a palace for his favourite queen, Komaladevi, a princess of the Pramara race, familiarly known as the Ruthi Rani, or ‘testy queen.’
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Hank added with emphasis, as though he had a reason for knowing.
— from The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood

The red fox knew the bye-ways better, and went by holes and corners without any dog seeing him, seated himself under the chair of the King's daughter, and scratched her foot.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

By the cloisterly Temple, and by Whitefriars (there, not without a glance at Hanging-Sword Alley, which would seem to be something in his way), and by Blackfriars Bridge, and Blackfriars Road, Mr. George sedately marches to a street of little shops lying somewhere in that ganglion of roads from Kent and Surrey, and of streets from the bridges of London, centring in the far-famed elephant who has lost his castle formed of a thousand four-horse coaches to a stronger iron monster than he, ready to chop him into mince-meat any day he dares.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Of course, such a remark had no effect in reducing the ‘shocking colour’; on the contrary, I felt my face glow with redoubled fires kindled by a complication of emotions, of which indignant, swelling anger was the chief.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

This was Sri Yukteswar's reply from Kashmir.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

Converts were made and Christian congregations were gathered in regions remote from Ki[=o]to and Yedo, which latter place, like St. Petersburg in the West, was being made into a large city.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

From the time the expedition returned from Kinburn not one drop of rain fell, and each day was cloudless, sunny, and almost too warm.
— from The British Expedition to the Crimea by Russell, William Howard, Sir

The first who commenced, said, “I am p. 43 Romulus, first king of Rome; my ministers not being able to tolerate my government, wished to change it; they caused me to be assassinated, and a report spread, that I had, in their presence, been translated to heaven.”
— from The Visions of Quevedo by Francisco de Quevedo

He commanded, or rather followed, King James II.’s troops at Sedgemoor, in 1685, and at that momentous crisis “thought only of eating and sleeping.”
— from Haunted London by Walter Thornbury

This is a good reason for keeping up the present force of the United States.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 1 (of 16) by United States. Congress

Rolling field kitchens were not new to our Army or the trade, there being about six types of commercial kitchens manufactured at the time we entered the war.
— from America's Munitions 1917-1918 by Benedict Crowell

When a hundred an' ninety-four had passed, we didn't see no reason for keepin' on.
— from The Turtles of Tasman by Jack London

Her sisters (among them Patty, newly returned from Kelstein) sat at home: their father had forbidden them to attend.
— from Hetty Wesley by Arthur Quiller-Couch

He was still young enough to consider himself young; in fact, one principal reason for keeping Alain secluded in Bretagne was his reluctance to introduce into the world a son "as old as myself" he would say pathetically.
— from The Parisians — Volume 01 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

It was to run from Kansas City to Deming—1140 miles—it is not often an English engine 240 has to do more than 200 miles without an overhaul and rest.
— from Hesperothen; Notes from the West, Vol. 1 (of 2) A Record of a Ramble in the United States and Canada in the Spring and Summer of 1881 by Russell, William Howard, Sir