The history of Russian polar explorations has a series of proud names, which lack only the pen of a Sherard Osborn to shine by the side of Franklin and McClure, and it redounds to the honor of Denmark that one of the first and greatest of these men was a Dane,—that the most brilliant chapter in the history of Russian explorations is due to the initiative and indefatigable energy of Vitus Bering.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

The hastiness of Rupert prevented Edgehill from being a victory, and definitely lost Naseby, the final battle of the war.
— from Battles of English History by H. B. (Hereford Brooke) George

a memorial stone found in the temple of the moon-god Chunsu at Karnak—a deity to whom the house of Ramses paid especial honour—informs us that he elevated the daughter of the lord of the land of Buchten (or Bachtan) to be Queen of Egypt.
— from The History of Antiquity, Vol. 1 (of 6) by Max Duncker

As Rome became more and more the centre of hostility to England, patriotism itself stirred men to a hatred of Rome; and their hatred of Rome passed easily into a love for the fiercer and sterner Calvinism which looked on all compromise with Rome, or all acceptance of religious traditions or usages which had been associated with Rome, as treason against God.
— from History of the English People, Volume IV by John Richard Green

"And now has come the hour of revenge, pauvre Etooell; this time you are on the right side, and may fight with heart and mind those you so much hate."
— from The Wing-and-Wing; Or, Le Feu-Follet by James Fenimore Cooper

This holiday our royal Prince Euarchus, Being remov'd to his house here near adjoining, Sent to command us to attend his person, With all our sports and wonted merriment, Wherein you always bore the chiefest part.
— from A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 12 by Robert Dodsley

If a man should enter my room now—at this hour only respectable persons enter my room—and I should say to him, 'What do you hope and wish in regard to the war?'
— from The Land of Riddles (Russia of To-day) by Hugo Ganz

I don't remember anything very particularly [Pg 93] interesting in the course of the first few days at the Hut, or rather perhaps, everything was so interesting that no one thing stands out very much in my memory or in my diary.
— from The House That Grew by Mrs. Molesworth

Wherefore, in regard of the unfaigned affection I beare you, and compassion, which you ought to have of Royall Princesse, even almost sicke to death for your sake: I earnestly entreate you, not to denie me your loving society, but pittying my youth and fiery afflictions (never to be quenched but by your kindnesse)
— from The Decameron (Day 1 to Day 5) Containing an hundred pleasant Novels by Giovanni Boccaccio