One of the brilliant identifications of Mr. Ernest Satow, now H.B.M. Minister at Tangier, is that of Kuroda in the "Kondera"' of the Jesuits.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

The old days sleep, the lion of Tennessee sleeps With Daniel Boone and the hunters, The rifle men, the revelers, The laughers and dancers and choppers Who climbed the crests of the Alleghenies, And poured themselves into Tennessee, Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois, the bountiful West.
— from Toward the Gulf by Edgar Lee Masters

"But I am sure of one thing, and that is that our King isn't one bit like the German Emperor!
— from Our Little Danish Cousin by Luna May Ennis

I often maintain that, if they only knew it, provincial theatre lovers have certain advantages over Londoners.
— from Ellen Terry and Her Sisters by T. Edgar (Thomas Edgar) Pemberton

And since all those who read [F] this history may not have a knowledge of this animal, let them know that turtles are nothing but sea-tortoises, whose shells are as large as shields; and I have seen some like them in this our Kingdom in the lake of Obidos, which is between Atouguya and Pederneira.
— from The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea. Vol. II by Gomes Eannes de Zurara

Gümbel believes that the cold currents which stream into the cave from the numerous fissures in its walls are the cause of the ice; and though this is the only known ice-cave far and near, he imagines that the icy-currents which are frequently met with in that district, and in the Hochgebirge , would be found to proceed in reality from like caves, if the fissures from which they blow could be penetrated.
— from Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland by G. F. (George Forrest) Browne

She’ll wet her feet, and wet feet and cold feet are the cause of a third of the miseries the feminine part of this town is subject to, if they only knew it.
— from The House of Armour by Marshall Saunders

A third temple, apparently very similar to these, is that of Kangovar in Persia.
— from A History of Architecture in all Countries, Volume 1, 3rd ed. From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by James Fergusson

“No, Bobby,” she said gently; “you have to know that there is the other kind, in order properly to appreciate truth and honor and loyalty.”
— from The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man by George Randolph Chester

Do you mean to insinuate that our King is a bogus King like the one you have described?
— from The King of the Dark Chamber by Rabindranath Tagore

Many parish churches, too, including those of Kilpeck in Herefordshire, a very typical Norman building; Tickencote in Lincolnshire, with intersecting pointed arches; S. Peter's in the East, Oxford, with a groined vaulted roof; Barfreston Church, Kent, with a very beautiful recessed doorway; Goring and Iffley in Oxfordshire; and above all, S. Bartholomew's in London, date from Norman times, and, though they have all been more or less modified by restoration, retain the general characteristics of the period to which they belong.
— from Architecture by N. D'Anvers