Among the prophecies of his which are believed to have been fulfilled are the following, which relate to the times of the Pretender: “A great man shall come into England, But the son of a king Shall take from him the victory.”
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

Our traveller says that Tenduc had been the seat of Aung Khan's sovereignty; he has already said that it had been the scene of his final defeat, and he tells us that it was still the residence of his descendants in their reduced state.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

It stands on a knoll surrounded by locust trees and lofty elms, from among which its decent whitewashed walls shine modestly forth, like Christian purity beaming through the shades of retirement.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

I will provide public schools of all kinds, singing, dancing, fencing, &c. especially of grammar and languages, not to be taught by those tedious precepts ordinarily used, but by use, example, conversation,
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

He is not so much the son of a Keát, ( shoemaker caste ) that he shall direct the Saheb like unto one leading a monkey.
— from Nil Darpan; or, The Indigo Planting Mirror, A Drama. Translated from the Bengali by a Native. by Dinabandhu Mitra

Sensibility of all kinds seems diminished as well as motility, but of this I shall speak later on.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

To pass between lodges of a modern appearance, to find herself with such ease in the very precincts of the abbey, and driven so rapidly along a smooth, level road of fine gravel, without obstacle, alarm, or solemnity of any kind, struck her as odd and inconsistent.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

We all rest alike on Sunday—by secluding ourselves and keeping still, whether that is the surest way to rest the most of us or not.
— from A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain

Scott often mentions his sources of all kinds, such as MSS. of Herd and Mrs. Brown; “an old person”; “an old woman at Kirkhill, West Lothian”; “an ostler at Carlisle”; Allan Ramsay’s Tea-Table Miscellany ; Surtees of Mainsforth (these ballads are by Surtees himself: Scott never suspected him); Caw’s Hawick Museum (1774); Ritson’s copies, others from Leyden; the Glenriddell MSS. (collected by the friend of Burns); on several occasions copies from recitations procured by James Hogg or Will Laidlaw, and possibly or probably each of these men emended the copy he obtained; while Scott combined and emended all in his published text.
— from Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy by Andrew Lang

As I lolled one summer’s day beneath an oak near the ruins of Post St. Jean Baptiste des Natchitoches and closed my eyes to give my fancy free play, I thought I heard sounds of all kinds, sounds that had undoubtedly resounded down the years.
— from No Man's Land: A History of El Camino Real by Louis Raphael Nardini

"The sign of a king," said I. "Surely," said he.
— from The Man from Archangel, and Other Tales of Adventure by Arthur Conan Doyle

My friend Tompkins, who had returned my other hunter broken-winded, in consequence of his servant's mismanagement in feeding, or his own indiscreet riding, upon being informed of the circumstance, very coolly answered, that he was sorry for it; and, in the true stile of a knowing sportsman, he proposed to accommodate me in return—not by lending me one of his hunters for the remainder of the season, but by selling me one, a young horse, as he said, of great power and promise, which would just suit me; and as a great favour he wrote me word, that he would part with it to me, as a friend, at the same price which he had given for it.
— from Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1 by Henry Hunt

"I am a King and the son of a King's son," muttered Tandy, staring sadly at the sallow reflection in the mirror.
— from Captain Salt in Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson

For example, it is said in Judges iii. 31, "that Shamgar the son of Anath killed six hundred Philistines with an ox-goad."
— from Bible Animals; Being a Description of Every Living Creature Mentioned in the Scripture, from the Ape to the Coral. by J. G. (John George) Wood