Upon the ‘Change to-day Colvill tells me, from Oxford, that the King in person hath justified my Lord Sandwich to the highest degree; and is right in his favour to the uttermost.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

But where the Kula is practised, it governs all the other allied activities, and canoe building and trade are made subsidiary to it.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

7 How attractive the island appeared and how well they knew its peoples is revealed by the accurate descriptions in the first book of Combés’ Historia de Mindanao y Jolo .
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

So I will get Mr. Peters, who wants to see my little chapel, to assist Mr. Williams, under the notion of breakfasting with me next Thursday morning, since you won't have it sooner; and there will nobody else be wanting; and I will beg of Mr. Peters to keep it private, even from his own family, for a few days.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

As the key is pushed in, the notches in its upper edge raise up the pins A 1 , B 1 , C 1 , D 1 , E 1 , until their tops exactly reach the surface of G , which can now be revolved by the key in Fig.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

The king, in person, presided in the upper court, the court of the barons.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The nobles, equal to kings in power, would not shew any inferiority in this respect, and wore not only their hair, but their beards of an enormous length.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

And Pelling, the Potticary, tells me the world says all over, that less charge than what the kingdom is put to, of one kind or other, by this business, would have set out all our great ships.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The King in person led his chiefe forces in 166 to Kent , against Odo his vncle, the principall firebrand of all this flame.
— from The Lives of the III. Normans, Kings of England: William the First, William the Second, Henrie the First by Hayward, John, Sir

Then bending before her, and taking her by the hand, he said to her, "Will you honor me by accepting the kiss I press upon your hand?"
— from The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Alexandre Dumas

Even the rough masonry of the kivas is partly surfaced with this medium, though many jagged stones are still visible.
— from A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 by Victor Mindeleff

V. Having rejected the doctrine that 'Knowledge is perception,' we now proceed to look for a definition of knowledge in the sphere of opinion.
— from Theaetetus by Plato

The snow-white hair and ragged beard, the trembling claws and the blinking watery eyes—this could never be Mushâd, the keen-eyed, haughty, indomitable Arab of middle age and iron sinewy frame, whom they had last seen, here on this very spot, hurling defiance at his captors in general and at the King in particular.
— from Haviland's Chum by Bertram Mitford

And so, Theodorus, we have got rid of your friend without assenting to his doctrine, that every man is the measure of all things—a wise man only is a measure; neither can we allow that knowledge is perception, certainly not on the hypothesis of a perpetual flux, unless perchance our friend Theaetetus is able to convince us that it is.
— from Theaetetus by Plato

Then there will be three Knights in Petergate in York, and the one shall not know of the other.
— from Prophecies of Robert Nixon, Mother Shipton, and Martha, the Gypsy by Anonymous

methinks I am eene up to the knees in preferment….
— from Shakspere and Montaigne An Endeavour to Explain the Tendency of 'Hamlet' from Allusions in Contemporary Works by Jacob Feis