Now these goings on must be a secret which the rulers only know, or there will be a further danger of our herd, as the guardians may be termed, breaking out into rebellion.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

] Note 2002 ( return ) [ Oenomaus, king of Pisa in Elis, warned by an oracle that he should be killed by his son-in-law, offered his daughter Hippodamia to the man who could defeat him in a chariot race, on condition that the defeated suitors should be slain by him.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

In this shrine King Magnus had the holy remains of King Olaf deposited, and many were the miracles there wrought.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

It standeth not far from the Old Temple, but in the midway between the Old Temple and the New, in the which house all such Jewes and infidels, as were converted to the Christian faith, were ordained and appointed, under an honest rule of life, sufficient maintenance, whereby it came to pass, that in short time there were gathered a great number of converts, which were baptized, instructed in the doctrine of Christ, and there lived under a learned Christian appointed to govern them; since the which time, to wit, in the year 1290, all the Jews in England were banished out of the realm, whereby the number of converts in this place was decayed: and, therefore, in the year 1377, this house was annexed by patent to William Burstall Clearke, custos rotulorum, or keeper of the Rolles of the Chauncerie, by Edward III., in the 5th year of his reign; and this first Master [351] of the Rolles was sworn in Westminster hall, at the table of marble stone; since the which time, that house hath been commonly called the Rolles in Chancerie lane.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Your dog is a philosopher who judges by the rule of knowing or not knowing; and philosophy, whether in man or beast, is the parent of gentleness.
— from The Republic by Plato

But his genius survived to diffuse a ray of knowledge over the darkest ages of the Latin world; the writings of the philosopher were translated by the most glorious of the English kings, and the third emperor of the name of Otho removed to a more honorable tomb the bones of a Catholic saint, who, from his Arian persecutors, had acquired the honors of martyrdom, and the fame of miracles.
— 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

Ilioneus made this reply: “O king, of Faunus’ royal family!
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

But he has been storing up a vast reserve of knowledge of detail, laying foundations, forming his acquaintances, gaining his reputation for truthfulness, trustworthiness, and integrity, and in establishing his credit.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

On winter evenings he shelled corn by drawing the ears across a spade resting on a wash tub, and we children built houses of the cobs, while mother sewed carpet rags or knit our mittens.
— from A Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland

'[2] 'Avarice may involve immoderation regarding exterior things in two ways; in one way immediately as to the receiving or keeping of them when one acquires or keeps beyond the due amount; and in this respect it is directly a sin against one's neighbour, because in exterior things one man cannot have superabundance without another being in want, since temporal goods cannot be simultaneously possessed by many.
— from An Essay on Mediæval Economic Teaching by George Augustine Thomas O'Brien

Or had she found the "River of Kings," Of which De Fonte told such strange things, In sixteen forty?
— from Complete Poetical Works by Bret Harte

A thread of weft usually crosses twice between every two rows of knots, only rarely once.
— from Oriental Rugs, Antique and Modern by W. A. (Walter Augustus) Hawley

The conversation lasted until they reached the river, and took their seats in a plainly painted and rather ordinary kind of skiff.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 by Various

The robe of Keeper of the Seals, which had been his dream, was slow in coming to him.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

our Lord 664, and in the yeare of the reigne of king Oswie 22, and 30 yeare after the Scotishmen began first to beare the office of bishops within Northumberland, which was (as W. Harison saith) 624.
— from Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete by William Harrison

Ishmael read so far, and though he did not understand what he read, and it sent no rush of knowledge over his soul, yet a deadly sense of fear, of yet he knew not what, sent his heart pounding through his frame.
— from Secret Bread by F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse

A coarse woodcut sheet of the commencement of the last century—evidently copied from a much older original—to judge by the costumes, represents two ancient beldames with high-crowned hats, starched ruffs and collars, and high-heeled boots, in a very disorderly room or kitchen; one of the women wipes a plate with the bushy tail of a large dog, whose head is completely buried in a capacious pot, which he is licking clean; under it :— “All sluts behold, take view of me, Your own good housewifry to see.
— from The History of Signboards, from the Earliest times to the Present Day by John Camden Hotten