When people suffer under cruel kings, With pity moved, he to them succor brings.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo
She was followed by her suite--Kotchevoy, two doctors of their acquaintance, an officer, and a stout young man in student's uniform, called Kish.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Dhṛitarāshṭra had a hundred sons, usually called Kauravas, or Kuru princes, the most prominent of whom was Duryodhana.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell
As he had in the country some underground caves, known only to two of his freedmen, where he used to stow away things, he dismissed all the rest of his slaves, as if he intended to poison himself, and taking with him these two trusty freedmen he descended with them into those underground caves, and sent one of them, Martialis, to tell his wife that he had poisoned himself, and that his body was burnt in the flames of his country-house, for he wanted his wife's genuine sorrow to lend credit to the report of his death.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch
To sum up, certain kinds of verbal associate, certain grammatical expectations fulfilled, stand for a good part of our impression that a sentence has a meaning and is dominated by the Unity of one Thought.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James
Captain Fairbanks executed the order, followed by the second company of Prairie Scouts, under Captain Kehoe.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various
He penetrated to the Cumbrians and Scots, under Constantine, King of the Grampians.
— from The Danes in Lancashire and Yorkshire by S. W. Partington
" Telescope under his arm, the worthy buccaneer—for I am convinced he sailed under Captain Kidd—shuffled into the house, and the noise of the train could be distinctly heard as it emptied its crowd of one or two at the little station.
— from The Blower of Bubbles by Beverley Baxter
Forde at once despatched a battalion of Sepoys, under Captain Knox, in pursuit; and this officer pressed on so vigorously that he approached Rajahmahendri the same evening.
— from With Clive in India; Or, The Beginnings of an Empire by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
The Confederates early saw the importance of holding the Mississippi as a water-way, and almost at the outset, seized upon Columbus, Ky., and Belmont, Mo., nearly opposite thereto, as places to be fortified and held.
— from The History of Company A, Second Illinois Cavalry by D. H. Fletcher
He and John C. Frémont assisted the Bear Republicans until soldiers under Colonel Kearney reached them from the United States by way of Santa Fé.
— from A Short History of the United States for School Use by Edward Channing
Apparently with the design of inducing the Germans to come out, a flotilla of submarines under Commodore Keyes was sent close in to Heligoland, with some destroyers and two light cruisers, the Arethusa and Fearless , behind them, and more substantial vessels out of sight in the offing.
— from A Short History of the Great War by A. F. (Albert Frederick) Pollard
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