THE GREAT KAAN MAINTAINS A GUARD OF TWELVE THOUSAND HORSE, WHICH ARE CALLED KESHICAN NOTE.—The term Quescican .
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

HOW THE GREAT KAAN MAINTAINS A GUARD OF TWELVE THOUSAND HORSE, WHICH ARE CALLED KESHICAN.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

THE STORY OF THE KING OF BOHEMIA AND HIS SEVEN CASTLES T HERE was a certain king of Bo - - he—— As the corporal was entering the confines of Bohemia, my uncle Toby obliged him to halt for a single moment; he had set out bare-headed, having, since he pull’d off his Montero -cap in the latter end of the last chapter, left it lying beside him on the ground.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

THE STORY OF THE KING OF BOHEMIA AND HIS SEVEN CASTLES, CONTINUED T HERE was a certain king of Bohemia, but in whose reign, except his own, I am not able to inform your honour—— I do not desire it of thee, Trim, by any means, cried my uncle Toby.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Presently he said to himself: “What a curious kind of a fool a girl is!
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

don't be in a hurry, there are plenty of you," and then the young man struck me on the head with a crooked knife, about three feet and a half long, in a sheath.
— from The Eureka Stockade by Raffaello Carboni

He had a faint recollection of Sherdil as a big fellow who, rough as he was, had treated him with a certain kindness, and had shown him first how to snare a rabbit.
— from Barclay of the Guides by Herbert Strang

Of his temptations and of his stout resistance to them, his wife and children knew no more, naturally, than of any of the other details of his professional life, which, according to the custom of their circle, were as remote and hidden from them as if he had departed each morning after his hearty early breakfast into another planet; but his wife was proud of the integrity which she divined in her husband and, as she often declared roundly to Marietta, would not have exchanged his good name for a much larger income.
— from The Squirrel-Cage by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Indeed, Tom felt very virtuous as he returned that afternoon to his lodgings; and so felt no need to look away from self to Him who alone can keep us from falling.
— from The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch by Talbot Baines Reed

Cavendish informs us that he was "a comely knight, of a goodly personage."
— from The Privy Purse Expenses of King Henry VIII from November MDXXIX, to December MDXXXII by Nicolas, Nicholas Harris, Sir

"It was, as a matter of fact, a very grave mistake to come here at all," Holly told him with a courteous kind of severity.
— from Starr, of the Desert by B. M. Bower

Mr. Flint had seen the thing happen with a certain kind of financiers, one day aggressive, combative, and the next broken, querulous men.
— from Mr. Crewe's Career — Volume 3 by Winston Churchill

Nine men of learning were attached to the person of this King, and at their head was a certain Kagabu , as "Master of the Rolls," (Books) a man "unrivaled in elegance of style and diction."
— from Punch and Judy, with Instructions How to Manage the Little Wooden Actors Containing New and Easy Dialogues Arranged for the Use of Beginners, Desirous to Learn How to Work the Puppets. For Sunday Schools, Private Parties, Festivals and Parlor Entertainments. by Thomas A. M. Ward