Sheridan of course knew of his coming, and being impatient to get the troops up as soon as possible, sent orders to him to hasten.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

We shall, of course, keep on just as friendly terms as usual.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

And Tacitus, in reference to this, speaking of Cogidunus, king of England, gives us, by a marvellous touch, an instance of that infinite power: the Romans, says he, were from all antiquity accustomed to leave the kings they had subdued in possession of their kingdoms under their authority.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

That may be applied to me, who am but a Squire of Clubs, which was said of Charillus, king of Sparta: “He cannot be good, seeing he is not evil even to the wicked.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

And therefore when his frigid Majesty said that my words had touched his heart, and bade me ask for a gift from his hand, I said,— “O cold king of this fair icy domain, let those tears that now hang like tiny jewels on Schneeboule’s cheeks be brushed into an alabaster box and given to me.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

In the popular theology, Adonis was the son of Cinyras, king of Cyrus, whose untimely death was wept by Venus and her attendant nymphs: in the physical theology of the philosophers, 22 he was a symbol of the sun, alternately present to and absent from the earth; but in the initiation into the Mysteries of his worship, his resurrection and return from Hades were adopted as a type of the immortality of the soul.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

Thus, in the Rennes Dinnshenchas there is this passage showing that spirits or fairies were regarded as necessary for the employment of magic:—‘Folks were envious of them (Faifne the poet and his sister Aige): so they loosed elves at them who transformed Aige into a fawn’ (the form assumed by the fairy mother of Oisin, see p. 299 n. ), ‘and sent her on a circuit all round Ireland, and the fians of Meilge son of Cobthach, king of Ireland, killed her.’
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

‘It is most probable that Russia, just like any other country, enjoys certain natural advantages which enable her to act as a supplier of certain kinds of commodities on foreign markets.
— from The Accumulation of Capital by Rosa Luxemburg

The following enumeration of specimens from the coasts of Australia, commences, with the survey of Captain King, on the eastern shore, about the latitude of twenty-two degrees, proceeding northward and westward: and as the shores of the Gulf of Carpentaria, previously surveyed by Captain Flinders, were passed over by Captain King, Mr. Brown, who accompanied the former, has been so good as to allow the specimens collected by himself in that part of New Holland, to supply the chasm which would otherwise have existed in the series.
— from Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 by Philip Parker King

Sir George Mackenzie of Tarbat, the Lord Advocate, and Sir George Mackenzie, the first Earl of Cromartie, were ready to swear to the descent of the Scots nation from Gathelus, son of Cecrops, King of Athens, and Scota his wife, daughter of Pharaoh, King of Egypt; and, of course, they were no less eager to claim a lofty and illustrious lineage for their own clan.
— from History of the Mackenzies, with genealogies of the principal families of the name by Alexander Mackenzie

It has nothing in common with the serene, hymn-like voices of the true thrushes; the bird has no flute-like notes, but an emphatic smacking or chucking kind of warble.
— from Bird Neighbors An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifty Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods About Our Homes by Neltje Blanchan

See Oxford Harold, son of Cnut, King of England, 56 —, son of Godwine, minister of Edward the Confessor, 58 ; his oath to William of Normandy, 59 ; King of England, 61 ; defeats Hardrada, 63 ; slain at Hastings, 65 Harthacnut, King of England, 56 Hastenbeck, battle of, 525 Hastings, battle of, 65 —, Francis, Marquis of, Governor-General of India, his Pindaree and Mahratta wars, 738 , 739 —, William, Lord, executed by Richard III., 266 —, Warren, Governor-General of India, 567 ; his Mahratta and Mysore wars, 569 ; his impeachment and acquittal, 570 , 571 Havelock, General, at Cawnpore and Lucknow, 747 , 748 Pg 765 Hawke, Admiral, wins battle of Quiberon, 527 Hawkins, Sir John, American explorer,
— from A History of England Eleventh Edition by Charles Oman

S. Clether was the son of Clydwyn, king of Carmarthen.
— from A Book of Cornwall by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould