Nor is it lawful for us to journey, either on the Sabbath day, or on a festival day 24 But when Antiochus joined battle with Arsaces, the king of Parthia, he lost a great part of his army, and was himself slain; and his brother Demetrius succeeded in the kingdom of Syria, by the permission of Arsaces, who freed him from his captivity at the same time that Antiochus attacked Parthia, as we have formerly related elsewhere.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus
Of such is the kingdom of snobs!
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
Ang hárì sa Ispanya, The king of Spain.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
Now, that, Miss Oliver, dear," concluded Susan, "is the kind of spirit I admire.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
During this period of torturing suspense to Valancourt, Emily was sunk into that kind of stupor, with which sudden and irremediable misfortune sometimes overwhelms the mind.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe
She had learned to knit stockings since Prince Andrew had casually mentioned that no one nursed the sick so well as old nurses who knit stockings, and that there is something soothing in the knitting of stockings.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
Nevertheless, Shirley withdrew more and more into quietness whenever he came, and often slipped into the kitchen on some household pretext, until one day he boldly came out into the kitchen after her with a book he wanted her to read, and was so frank and companionable that she led the way back to the living-room, and concluded it would be better in future to stay with the rest of the family.
— from The Enchanted Barn by Grace Livingston Hill
“Oh, Kernertok’s too civilized to take any stock in that kind of stuff,” Bob told him.
— from The Golden Boys Along the River Allagash by L. P. (Levi Parker) Wyman
Numerical strength is the kind of strength which is most to be considered.
— from Hoyle's Games Modernized by Professor Hoffmann
Overhanging the slope is the kiosk or summer palace of Sultan Moorad, a Saracenic octagonal structure, the interior walls lined with Persian tiles, the ceilings painted in red arabesques and gilded in mosaics, the gates of bronze inlaid with mother-of-pearl; a most charming building, said to be in imitation of a kiosk of Bagdad.
— from In the Levant Twenty Fifth Impression by Charles Dudley Warner
She tossed the salt into the kettle of soup, and when the old woman tasted it she made a face and said: "Ugh!
— from Kisington Town by Abbie Farwell Brown
Oeum or Ium, the chief town of the Sciritis, probably stood in the Klisura or series of narrow passes through the watershed of the mountains forming the natural boundary between Laconia and Arcadia (in the direct line north from Sparta to Tegea), "Dict. of Anc.
— from Hellenica by Xenophon
It'll dee the nicht, an' there'll be a new ane the morn, an' wha ever heard tell o' an Easter Sabbath in the Kirk o' Scotland?
— from St. Cuthbert's by Robert E. (Robert Edward) Knowles
First Lutheran National Synod in the kingdom of Saxony, § 194, 1 .
— from Church History, Volume 3 (of 3) by J. H. (Johann Heinrich) Kurtz
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